Peter Gallagher

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Peter Gallagher

Born	August 19 1955 New York City
Height	1.75m
Notable roles	John Mullany (sex, lies and videotape) Buddy Kane (American Beauty) Sandy Cohen (The O.C.)

Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19 1955) is an Golden Globe award winning American actor. He is best known for playing Sandy Cohen on the television series The O.C.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
2 Partial filmography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Gallagher was born in New York City and raised in Armonk, New York. He is a graduate of Tufts University and a former member of the Tufts Beelzebubs.

[edit] Career

Image:Sandy.jpg Gallagher specializes in character parts which are, to varying degrees, either good or bad guys. He played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins studio executive in The Player as a possible replacement; the comatose "fiancé" of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping; an egotistical real estate salesman having an affair with Annette Bening in American Beauty; a villainous media executive in Mr. Deeds; and a political reporter exposing media ethics during a presidential debate in The Last Debate.

Gallagher appeared on Broadway with Glenn Close in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, but first achieved fame for his role in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989).

As of 2006, Gallagher stars as Sandy Cohen, a public defender and corporate lawyer, on the Fox television show The O.C., a show which has introduced him to a whole new generation of TV viewers. He hosts an annual award ceremony named "The Sandy Cohen Awards" or The Sandys, which, in honor of his character on The O.C., gives a scholarship to a law school student at UC Berkeley who wants to become a public defender.

Gallagher released an album entitled 7 Days in Memphis in 2005, on the Sony BMG label. This includes a studio recording of his performance of Don't Give Up On Me (originally by Solomon Burke), which was featured in an episode of The O.C.. He also has a video for his single Still I Long For Your Kiss, in which he starred with his TV-wife Kelly Rowan.