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Ron Silver Biography |
| Occupation: | Actor (also Director) |
| Born: | July 2nd, 1966 in Manhattan Lower East Side, NY |
| Education: | Stuyvesant High School, University of Buffalo with a degree in Spanish and Chinese, St John University and College of Chinese Culture in Taiwan: master degree in Chinese history, studied acting at Herman Berghof Studio and with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg |
Before taking acting lessons Ron Silver thought about "doing intelligence work" but then decided to concentrate on his acting career. His first breakthrough came with the tv-series Rhoda. He then appeared in tv and theatre productions steadily. His performance in the Broadway play Speed the Plow earned him the Drama Desk and a Tony Award.
Ron Silver is a political activist and supports anti-nuclear organisations as well as environmental.
In 1991 he became president of the Actor's Equity Association, the stage performers guild. He was reelected in 1994.Ron Silver often played characters who the audience often hated. (Tommy Wilmette certainly is one of them).
A more softer role was the one playing a faithful son and fulfilling his mother's last wish to speak to Greta Garbo before she dies (Garbo talks).On October 24, Ron Silver will appear as CIA director Tom Lenahan in Showtime's movie "In the Company of Spies," co-starring Tom Berenger and directed by Tim Matheson. The film's story tracks a covert mission headed by Lenahan to rescue a U.S. operative in North Korea and uncover the country's strategic plans.
