D. W. Moffett

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D. W. Moffett

Born

Donald Warren Moffett
October 26, 1954
Highland Park, IL

Awards won
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture 2000 Traffic (shared)

Donald Warren Moffett (born October 26, 1954) is an American actor.

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

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Moffett was born in Highland Park and raised in nearby Wilmette. He took the stage name of "D.W." to avoid confusion with British actor Donald Moffat. The Moffetts are able to trace their ancestry to Jean de Mophet. de Mophet was a Norman knight who invaded England with William the Conqueror in 1064 CE. Movet was anglicized to Moffat and later Moffett. The town of Moffat, Scotland in the borderlands of Scotland and England is the Moffett's ancestral home.^{[citation needed]}

In the years 1969-1970 Moffett attended a private secondary school in Germany (Schule Schloss Neubeuern). After attending Stanford University, where he majored in Political Science, he found himself back in Chicago working as an investment banker. He was lured by a friend to the St. Nicholas Theater Company on a whim, where he began studying with William H. Macy. Shortly thereafter, he fell in love with the stage, and started his own theater company, called Remains Theater.

[edit] Career

After a long and successful career on stage in Chicago, he went with John Malkovich to perform in Balm In Giliad in New York City. He then starred opposite Brad Davis in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, for which he won critical acclaim. He played opposite Matt Dillon in Boys of Winter, and was most recently seen on stage at the Old Vic theater in London, playing opposite Kevin Spacey in The Philadelphia Story.

Moffett has had a long and successful career in film as well. He is most memorable in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.^[1] He played Bob Hardy in the series Hidden Palms for the CW Network and is now starring in the new CW series Life Is Wild as Dr. Danny Clarke.