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name: "Stephen Adly Guirgis"
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# Stephen Adly Guirgis

Actor and writer. Born 1 January 1965 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1965, New York City
- **Active:** 1993–2014

## Biography

Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Born in 1965 in Kearny, New Jersey, he was raised in New York City and graduated from the University at Albany, SUNY. He studied theatre at HB Studio and became a member and former co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company.

Guirgis has appeared in supporting roles in films including *Meet Joe Black* (1998), *Synecdoche, New York* (2008), *Margaret* (2011), *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014), *Vice* (2018) and *Motherless Brooklyn* (2019). On television he has acted in series such as *Law & Order*, *Russian Doll* and *New Amsterdam*. His plays, produced Off-Broadway and on Broadway, include *Between Riverside and Crazy*, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Good Neighbor — [page](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md)
- *Margaret* (2011), Fi1m 78, as Mitchell — [page](https://film.one/film/margaret.md)
- *Synecdoche, New York* (2008), Fi1m 84, as Davis — [page](https://film.one/film/synecdoche-new-york.md)
- *NYPD Blue* (1993), Fi1m 82, Story, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/nypd-blue.md)

## Also known for

- *Meet Joe Black* (1998), Hospital Receptionist
- *Vice* (2018), George Tenet
- *Motherless Brooklyn* (2019), Detective
- *New Amsterdam* (2018), Chaplain Alpert
- *Russian Doll* (2019), Peter
- *Law & Order* (1990), Ibrahim
- *The Get Down* (2016), Writer
- *Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty* (2022), Frank Mariani

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