Ron Rifkin (born Saul M. Rifkin; October 31, 1939) is an American
actor best known for his roles as Arvin Sloane on the spy drama Alias,
Saul Holden on the drama Brothers & Sisters, and District Attorney
Ellis Loew in L.A. Confidential.Saul M. Rifkin was born in New York
City, New York, to Miriam and Herman Rifkin, who was born in Russia.
He is the oldest of three children. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew
and remains Jewishly engaged though he left Orthodoxy at the age of
32. His wife, Iva Rifkin, owns a fashion design business.[unreliable
source?]In 2001, his association with Touchstone Television began when
he played a ruthless intelligence agent Arvin Sloane in Alias,
opposite Jennifer Garner. Until 2011, he played second-in-command
businessman Saul Holden on Brothers & Sisters, opposite Sally Field.
He also played Bonnie Franklin's second boyfriend on One Day at a
Time.Rifkin has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film, on
stage, and in television. His association with writer Jon Robin Baitz
has been especially fruitful. In 1991, his performance in Baitz's play
The Substance of Fire won him the Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel,
and Drama-Logue awards for Best Actor. The following year, he
performed in Baitz's Three Hotels, for which he received a second
Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nomination. In 1996, he starred in the
film version of Substance; in 2002, he appeared in the Baitz play Ten
Unknowns at Boston's Huntington Theatre; in 2004, he starred in his
play The Paris Letter at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, a
role he reprised the following year at the Laura Pels Theatre in New
York City; and appeared in the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters,
which Baitz created, as a character named Saul, Rifkin's real-life
name.
actor best known for his roles as Arvin Sloane on the spy drama Alias,
Saul Holden on the drama Brothers & Sisters, and District Attorney
Ellis Loew in L.A. Confidential.Saul M. Rifkin was born in New York
City, New York, to Miriam and Herman Rifkin, who was born in Russia.
He is the oldest of three children. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew
and remains Jewishly engaged though he left Orthodoxy at the age of
32. His wife, Iva Rifkin, owns a fashion design business.[unreliable
source?]In 2001, his association with Touchstone Television began when
he played a ruthless intelligence agent Arvin Sloane in Alias,
opposite Jennifer Garner. Until 2011, he played second-in-command
businessman Saul Holden on Brothers & Sisters, opposite Sally Field.
He also played Bonnie Franklin's second boyfriend on One Day at a
Time.Rifkin has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film, on
stage, and in television. His association with writer Jon Robin Baitz
has been especially fruitful. In 1991, his performance in Baitz's play
The Substance of Fire won him the Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel,
and Drama-Logue awards for Best Actor. The following year, he
performed in Baitz's Three Hotels, for which he received a second
Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nomination. In 1996, he starred in the
film version of Substance; in 2002, he appeared in the Baitz play Ten
Unknowns at Boston's Huntington Theatre; in 2004, he starred in his
play The Paris Letter at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, a
role he reprised the following year at the Laura Pels Theatre in New
York City; and appeared in the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters,
which Baitz created, as a character named Saul, Rifkin's real-life
name.
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