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Ken Olin

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Ken Olin Biography

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  • Birth Place: Chicago, IL
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 07/30/1955, Leo
  • Profession: Actor; director; producer
Ken Olin Fast Facts:
  • Spent part of his childhood in Chile where his father served as the deputy director of the Peace Corps.
  • Met his wife Patricia Wettig on a train to New England, where the two were slated to appear in a Portsmouth, NH, production of A Streetcar Named Desire; they were married a few months later.
  • Subsequently worked with Wettig on a number of projects. They acted opposite each other on an episode of Hill Street Blues, the series thirtysomething and L.A. Doctors (playing lovers); the TV-movies Police Story: Cop Killer (playing spouses) and Nothing But the Truth (playing lovers); and he directed her in thirtysomething, L.A. Doctors, Alias and Brothers & Sisters.
  • Son Clifford went to preschool with producer Marshall Herskovitz's daughter Lizzie; Wettig and Olin were later cast in Herskovitz and Edward Zwick's hit thirtysomething.
    Ken Olin Relationships:
  • Cliff Olin - Son
  • Patricia Wettig - Wife
  • Roxy Olin - Daughter

  • Ken Olin Awards:
  • 1990 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee

  • College:
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA
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