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Michael Cristofer

Highest Rated: 93% The Girl in the Book (2015)

Lowest Rated: 11% Body Shots (1999)

Birthday: Jan 22, 1945

Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey, USA

After a decade of acting in the theater, Michael Cristofer found fame, as well as won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for writing the 1977 Broadway play "The Shadow Box," a character piece about three terminally-ill patients. The play had its initial premiere in 1975 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Prior to its Broadway run, Cristofer had had a few plays produced, including the 1972 street theater piece "Americommedia," theater piece (1972), but Cristofer had primarily been concentrating on an acting career.

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Highest rated movies

93% 56% The Girl in the Book Watchlist
88% 82% Gia
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87% 95% The Great Lillian Hall
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76% 55% Chronic
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66% 62% The Witches of Eastwick
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60% 52% An Enemy of the People
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57% 0% Emoticon
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54% 63% Falling in Love
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50% 58% The Little Drummer Girl
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Michael Cristofer

Michael Cristofer YEAR BY THE SEA, L-R: MICHAEL CRISTOFER, KAREN ALLEN, 2016. ©REAL WOMEN MAKE WAVES Mr. Robot, Michael Cristofer, 'Eps.1.2_d3bug.mkv', Season 1, Ep. #3, 07/08/2015, ©KSITE Mr. Robot, Michael Cristofer, 'Eps.1.2_d3bug.mkv', Season 1, Ep. #3, 07/08/2015, ©KSITE CHRONIC, from back: Tim Roth, Michael Cristofer, 2015. © Wild Bunch Distribution Smash, Jack Davenport (L), Debra Messing (C), Michael Cristofer (R), 'The Read-Through', Season 2, Ep. #5, 03/05/2013, ©KSITE Smash, Anjelica Huston (L), Michael Cristofer (R), 'The Fringe', Season 2, Ep. #6, 03/12/2013, ©NBC Smash, Grace Gummer (L), Michael Cristofer (R), 'Musical Chairs', Season 2, Ep. #7, 03/19/2013, ©NBC Smash, Michael Cristofer, 'Musical Chairs', Season 2, Ep. #7, 03/19/2013, ©NBC Smash, Michael Cristofer, 'The Read-Through', Season 2, Ep. #5, 03/05/2013, ©NBC View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
87% 95% The Great Lillian Hall Director,
Executive Producer 		- 2024
No Score Yet 91% The Metropolitan Opera: Champion Screenwriter - 2023
34% 31% The Night Clerk Director,
Screenwriter 		- 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Supper Raymond (Character) - 2018
50% 81% Year by the Sea Robin (Character) - 2016
82% 63% The Bleeder Screenwriter $320.7K 2016
76% 55% Chronic John (Character) $5.2K 2015
26% 26% The Adderall Diaries Paul Hora (Character) $11.3K 2015
93% 56% The Girl in the Book Dad (Character) $5.2K 2015
46% 43% 5 Flights Up Larry (Character) $1.0M 2014
57% 0% Emoticon Walter Nevins (Character) - 2014
45% 57% Casanova Writer $11.3M 2005
12% 61% Original Sin Director,
Screenwriter 		$16.5M 2001
11% 28% Body Shots Director $700.0K 1999
88% 82% Gia Director - 1998
20% 39% Breaking Up Writer - 1997
43% 50% Mr. Jones Writer $8.0M 1993
15% 26% The Bonfire of the Vanities Screenwriter - 1990
66% 62% The Witches of Eastwick Screenwriter $58.7M 1987
50% 58% The Little Drummer Girl Tayeh (Character) - 1984
54% 63% Falling in Love Screenwriter - 1984
60% 52% An Enemy of the People Hovstad (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Entertainer Frank (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crime Club Frank Swoboda (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder Alessini (Character) - 1974

TV

Credit
94% 93% Mr. Robot Phillip Price (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star) 		2015-2017 2019
72% 85% Ray Donovan Unknown (Guest Star) 2013 2015-2016
95% 89% Elementary Edwin Borstein (Guest Star) 2014
77% 66% American Horror Story Harrison Renard (Guest Star) 2013-2014
68% 80% Smash Unknown (Guest Star) 2012-2013
91% 87% Suits Paul (Guest Star) 2012
69% 85% Rubicon Unknown (Character) 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Michael Viggers Jr. (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rookies Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Ben (Guest Star) 1974