Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Actor F. Murray Abraham.
F. Murray Abraham is a legendary, multi-award winning actor who has been dazzling audiences for 6 decades with one unforgettable performance after another.
On the big screen, you’ve seen him in dozens of great movies including “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”, “The Sunshine Boys”, “All the President’s Men”, “Scarface”, “The Name of the Rose”, “Star Trek: Insurrection”, “Mighty Aphrodite”, “An Innocent Man”, “Finding Forrester”, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “The Magic Flute” and of course, “Amadeus”, for which he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, as well as a BAFTA Award nomination for his brilliant portrayal of the envious composer, “Antonio Salieri”.
On television he’s received 4 Emmy Award nominations – 2 for his work in “Homeland”, one for his voice work in “Moon Knight”, and one for his performance in “The White Lotus”, for which he also won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination. He also received 3 more Screen Actors Guild Award nominations – two for his work in “Homeland” and one for his performance in “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. And he received an Online Film and Television Association Award nomination for his performance as “C.W. Longbottom” in “Mythic Quest”.
He’s appeared in many TV movies and miniseries including “Marco Polo”, “Dream West”, “Noah’s Ark”, “The Betrothed”, “A Season of Giants”, “Dead Man’s Walk”, “White House Plumbers” and dozens more. And in the world of theatre, F. Murray Abraham has appeared in 13 Broadway shows including “The Man in the Glass Booth”, “The Ritz”, “Macbeth”, “Angels in America: Millenium Approaches” AND “Perestroika”, “Triumph of Love” and “It’s Only a Play”.
He’s also appeared in over 30 off-Broadway productions. For his work in theatre, he’s won 2 Obie Awards for his performances in “Uncle Vanya” and “The Merchant of Venice”, and he’s been nominated for 3 Drama Desk Awards and 2 Drama League Awards. And if all of that weren’t enough, F. Murray Abraham received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word album for “Interview with the Vampire”. He received the John H. Finley Award for exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York, the John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts, and in 1990 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Rider University. And In 2015, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
F. Murray Abraham is currently in rehearsal for a new Off-Broadway production at the Irish Repertory Theatre called “Beckett Briefs”.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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