Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin Biography

Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. His father was the Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin and his brother is the actor Matthew Arkin. Adam Arkin is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards (Ensemble, Chicago Hope), and a DGA Award (My Louisiana Sky).

Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-starred in the drama series Life. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy, and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005).

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'The Night Agent' Season 2 Teaser Trailer

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'Sugar' Season 1 Trailer

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'Billions' Season 7 Trailer

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'Pig' Trailer

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‘Sugar’ Trailer Finds Its Way to Screens

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Adam Arkin Quotes

Rethinking Perspectives Amidst Life's Challenges

Larry Gopnik: Well, you know, the way I look at it, it's an opportunity for me to really sit down and figure things out and look at the world afresh instead of just, you know, settling for the routine, tired old way of looking at things.

Divorce Lawyer: Really?

Larry Gopnik: I don't know. Maybe not.

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Identity Revealed in Unexpected Conversation

Laurie Strode: I'm not who you think I am.

Will Brennan: Okay. Who are you?

Laurie Strode: My name's not Kerri Tate.

Will Brennan: Ooh. What is it?

Laurie Strode: Laurie Strode.

Will Brennan: Strode?

Laurie Strode: Strode. I changed my name when I went into hiding.

Will Brennan: Oh, I like that. That's like...like...like the Witness Protection Program. What did you, like, rat out the mob, or something?

Laurie Strode: My brother killed my sister...when she was seventeen.

Will Brennan: Well, that's...sickly. How'd he do that?

Laurie Strode: With a really big sharp kitchen knife.

Will Brennan: That's terrible. Take off your clothes.

Laurie Strode: You said you'd listen.

Will Brennan: Okay.

Laurie Strode: [''in unison with Will Brennan''] They locked him up for a long time, but he got out and...he came after me. But I got away. But he killed a lot of my friends. It happened; ...on Halloween.

Laurie Strode: You've heard the whole story.

Will Brennan: Who hasn't? Michael Myers. It's like twenty years ago, right?

Laurie Strode: 1978.

Will Brennan: And the girl that... What happened to the sister? She died, right?

Laurie Strode: No. She faked her death...and, now, she's the head mistress of a very posh, secluded private school in Northern California.

Will Brennan: What?

Laurie Strode: Hoping and praying every year...that her brother won't find her.

Will Brennan: You're telling me the truth?!

Laurie Strode: Now, do you want a drink?