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Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2, Chuck Fishman on the 1990s television series Early Edition, and villainous computer genius Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers. He portrays Marvin Gerard on NBC’s The Blacklist. His most recent successes include winning the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Cove and the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for Crazy Love. In addition, he has directed the documentary Before the Flood, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and by National Geographic on October 21, 2016. He stars as Hugo Baker on the HBO satirical drama series Succession.

Fisher Stevens
Stevens in 2016
Born	Steven Fisher (1963-11-27) November 27, 1963 (age 58) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	New York University (no degree)
Occupation	Actor, director, producer, writer
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Alexis Bloom ​ ​ (m. 2017)​
Children	2

Early life

Stevens was born Steven Fisher in 1963 in Chicago, the son of Sally, a painter and AIDS activist, and Norman Fisher, a furniture executive.[1]

Stevens grew up in the Chicago, Illinois area, living in Hyde Park, Highland Park, and Evanston[2] and describes himself as a "white Jewish kid from Chicago."[3]

His parents divorced when he was 13, after which he moved to New York with his mother. At age 16, Stevens landed his first movie role, acting in the horror film The Burning. He completed one year at New York University before deciding to pursue acting full time.[2] He adopted the stage name "Fisher Stevens" upon joining the Screen Actors Guild because the Guild had several existing actors named "Steven Fisher".

Career

He co-founded the Naked Angels Theater Company with longtime friends Rob Morrow, Nicole Burdette, Pippin Parker, Charles Landry, Nancy Travis and Ned Eisenberg in 1986. He also co-founded Greene Street Films, a film-production company located in Tribeca, New York City, in 1996. Stevens performed as Edgar Allan Poe on Lou Reed's album The Raven in 2003. He is a harmonica player.

As an actor, he is known for his roles as Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Seamus O'Neill on Key West, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, Iggy in Super Mario Bros., Hawk Ganz in The Flamingo Kid, and his role as Indian character Ben Jabituya/Jahveri in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2, respectively.[3] His television credits include Columbo, Frasier, Friends, Law & Order, Key West, Damages, The Mentalist and Lost. He appeared on two episodes of the television series Numb3rs.[4]

Fisher has a Broadway and off-Broadway career spanning nearly three decades. He played Jigger Craigin in the 1994 Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. He had an early success in the 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy playing David, the adopted son of the gay protagonist played by the show's writer Harvey Fierstein, and the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he succeeded Matthew Broderick in the starring role of Eugene. Throughout his career, he has acted in and directed more than 50 stage productions.[5]

In 2010, Fisher co-founded a new media and documentary film company, Insurgent Media, with Andrew Karsch and Erik H. Gordon.

In June 2010, Stevens made his major theatrical directing debut with John Leguizamo's one-man show, Ghetto Klown (originally called Klass Klown), which eventually ran on Broadway from March to July 2011.[6][7] The two had appeared together in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Public Theater about 20 years earlier. On July 13, 2012, PBS debuted Tales From a Ghetto Klown, a documentary about the development of the show which prominently features Stevens.[8]

In 2010, Stevens won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for co-producing The Cove.[9]

He directed the 2012 crime story Stand Up Guys, starring Al Pacino and Christopher Walken. He teamed up with his longtime partner Alexis Bloom to direct the film Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. The film was a tribute to both mother and daughter as they passed in the same year. Both were close friends with Stevens.

In 2018, Stevens had a recurring role as Hugo Baker in the second season of HBO's satirical-comedy-drama series Succession. He was promoted to series regular in season 3.

In 2021, he directed the Apple TV drama film Palmer, starring Justin Timberlake.

Personal life

Stevens dated actress Michelle Pfeiffer from 1989 until 1992.[10] Stevens later dated longtime filmmaking partner and producer Alexis Bloom. The couple married in 2017 in a private ceremony. They have two children.[11]

Stevens survived Hodgkin lymphoma.[1]

Filmography

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Actor

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	The Burning	Woodstock
1983	Baby It's You	Stage Manager
1984	The Brother from Another Planet	Card Trickster
1984	The Flamingo Kid	'Hawk' Ganz
1985	My Science Project	Vince Latello
1986	Short Circuit	Ben Jabituya
1986	The Boss' Wife	Carlos Delgado
1988	Short Circuit 2	Ben Jahveri
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Harry 'Hotfoot Harry'
1990	Point of View	Performer
1990	Reversal of Fortune	David Marriott
1991	The Marrying Man	Sammy
1991	Mystery Date	Dwight
1992	Lift	Joe	Short
1992	Bob Roberts	'Rock' Bork
1992	Hero	Director of Channel 4 Crash Feature	Cameo
1993	When the Party's Over	Alexander
1993	Super Mario Bros.	Iggy
1994	Nina Takes a Lover	Paulie
1994	Only You	Larry
1995	Cold Fever	Jack
1995	Hackers	'The Plague'
1996	The Pompatus of Love	Sitcom Star
1997	Four Days in September	Mowinkel
1999	Taxman	Kenneth Green
1999	The Tic Code	Morris
2000	Sam the Man	Sam Manning
2000	Lisa Picard Is Famous	Himself
2001	3 A.M.	Haplin
2001	Prison Song	Prosecutor
2001	Piñero	Public Theatre Cashier
2002	Undisputed	James 'Ratbag' Kroycek
2003	Kill the Poor	Stuffed Shirt
2003	Uptown Girls	Himself
2003	Anything Else	Manager
2003	Easy Six	Officer Donny
2003	Reply	Blu (voice)
2004	On the Couch	Gary	Short
2005	Factotum	Manny
2005	Undiscovered	Garret Schweck
2005	Slow Burn	Alan Turlock
2006	Kettle of Fish	Bruce
2007	Red Angel	David	Short
2007	Awake	Dr. Puttnam
2010	Fake	Tom Kozinski
2010	Rio Sex Comedy	Fish / Tourist Guide
2010	Rising Stars	Mo
2010	The Experiment	Archaleta
2010	Henry's Crime	Eddie's Vibes
2012	One for the Money	Morty Beyers
2012	LOL	Roman
2013	Movie 43	Vrankovich / Minotaur
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	M. Robin
2014	Mission Blue	Himself	Documentary
2014	United Passions	Carl Hirschmann
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Communist Writer
2018	Isle of Dogs	Scrap (voice)
2019	Motherless Brooklyn	Lou
2021	Palmer	Additional voices
2021	The French Dispatch	Story Editor
TBA	Asteroid City		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	One Life to Live	Unknown
1983	Ryan's Hope	Henry Popkin
1984	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Gary Gordon	Season 1, episode 4
1986	Tall Tales & Legends	Indian Chief	Episode: "Ponce de Leon"
1989	Columbo	Alex Brady	Episode: "Murder, Smoke and Shadows"
1990	The Young Riders	'Bulldog'	Episode: "Bull Dog"
1991	General Motors Theatre	Wally Zuckerman	Episode: "It's Called the Sugar Plum"
1993	Key West	Seamus O'Neill	13 episodes
1995	Friends	Roger	Episode: "The One with the Boobies"
1995	Homicide: Life on the Street	Jonathan Heine	Episode: "Autofocus"
1995	Law & Order	Ross Fineman	Episode: "Angel"
1996	The Right To Remain Silent	Dale Meyerson	Television movie
1996–2000	Early Edition	Chuck Fishman	48 episodes
2000	The Hunger	Max Armstrong	Episode: "The Suction Method"
2001	Frasier	Dr. Sheldon Morey	Episode: "The Wizard and Roz"
2001	100 Centre Street	Ben Berkowitz	Episode: "Queenie's Running"
2001	Jenifer	Dr. Aaron Sanders	Television movie
2002	Is It College Yet?	(voice)	Television movie
2002	Hack	Donnie Franco	Episode: "Favors"
2003	The Lives They Lived	Narrator	Television movie
2004	Hope & Faith	Nick Spinelli	Episode: "The Diner Show"
2004	Dr. Vegas	Charlie	Episode: "Dead Man, Live Bet"
2004–2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Performer	2 episodes
2008	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Lyle Korman	Episode: "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia"
2008–2010	Lost	George Minkowski	6 episodes
2009	Medium	Neal Greybridge	Episode: "Medium is the Message"
2009	Numb3rs	John Buckley	2 episodes
2009	The Grean Teem	Jack Fisher	Television movie
2010	Ugly Betty	Mr. Z	Episode: "Back in her Place"
2010	The Mentalist	Tolman Bunting	Episode: "18-5-4"
2011	Californication	'Zig' Semetauer	Episode: "Monkey Business"
2011	Damages	Therapist	4 episodes
2012–2016	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Alvin Gilbert / Ted Scott	2 episodes
2015	Elementary	Marty Ward	Episode: "Under My Skin"
2015–2021	The Blacklist	Marvin Gerard	9 episodes
2016	The Night Of	Saul, The Pharmacist	3 episodes
2017	Red Oaks	Jerry	Episode: "Summer in the City"
2017	Vice Principals	Brian Biehn	4 episodes
2017–2020	The Good Fight	Gabriel Kovac	3 episodes
2019–present	Succession	Hugo Baker	5 episodes
2022	Would I Lie to You? (US)	Himself	Episode: "Banana Bread"

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1995	Call of the Wylie
1996	Phinehas
1998–1999	Early Edition	2 episodes
2002	Just a Kiss
2007	Crazy Love	co-directed with Dan Klores
2010–2011	John Leguizamo - Ghetto Klown	opened on Broadway March 2011
2012	Stand Up Guys
2016	Before the Flood	[12]
2016	Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2019	And We Go Green
2021	Palmer

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
2000	Sam the Man
2001	The Château
2001	Piñero
2002	Swimfan
2003	Uptown Girls
2004	Yes
2005	Slow Burn
2006	A Prairie Home Companion
2006	Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
2006	Wedding Daze
2007	Crazy Love
2007	Meet Bill
2007	Feast of Love
2007	Awake
2008	The Midnight Meat Train
2009	The Grean Teem
2009	Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
2009	Tenderness
2009	The Cove
2011	Blank City
2011	Hollywood Renegade
2011	Bad Trip
2011	Mission Blue
2012	Beware of Mr. Baker
2015	Racing Extinction
2016	Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
2016	Before the Flood
2020	Tiger King

Writer

• Sam the Man (2000, story)
• The Grean Teem (2009, story)

Narrator

• Secondhand Souls: A Novel by Christopher Moore
• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• The Highest Tide: A Novel by Jim Lynch

Awards and nominations

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Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2009	Academy Award	Best Documentary Feature	The Cove	Won
2012	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Documentary Series	American Masters	Nominated
2016		Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Racing Extinction	Nominated
2017			Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds	Nominated
		Outstanding Directing for a Documentary Program		Nominated
2020		Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series	Tiger King	Nominated
2016	Cannes Film Festival	Golden Eye	Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds	Nominated
2016	Toronto International Film Festival	People's Choice Award	Before the Flood	Nominated
2022	Saturn Award	Best Guest-Starring Performance in a Network or Cable Television Series	The Blacklist	Nominated

References

External links

• Fisher Stevens at the Internet Broadway Database
• Fisher Stevens at IMDb 
• Fisher Stevens at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

На других языках

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[de] Fisher Stevens

Fisher Stevens (* 27. November 1963 in Evanston, Illinois als Steven Fisher[1]) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent.

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[es] Fisher Stevens

Fisher Stevens (Chicago, 27 de noviembre de 1963) es un actor y productor estadounidense. En 2002 produjo su primera película titulada Fanática del director John Polson.

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[ru] Стивенс, Фишер

Фи́шер Сти́венс (англ. Fisher Stevens; род. 27 ноября 1963, Чикаго) — американский актёр, кинорежиссёр, обладатель премии «Оскар». Наиболее известен по ролям Чака Фишмана в телесериале «Завтра наступит сегодня», Юджина Белфорда в фильме «Хакеры» и Бена в фильмах «Короткое замыкание» и «Короткое замыкание 2».

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