Book Peter Gallagher

Peter Gallagher is an American actor and singer best known as Sandy Cohen, the principled public defender and family patriarch on the Fox drama The O.C. (2003 to 2007). His television work also includes Deputy Chief William Dodds on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Stacey Koons on Californication, Arthur Campbell on Covert Affairs, Nick on Grace & Frankie and a role on How I Met Your Mother. On film he made his debut in The Idolmaker and first gained wide fame in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989), followed by Summer Lovers (1982), Bob Roberts (1992), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), American Beauty (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002) and Palm Springs (2020). A Broadway veteran, he starred with Glenn Close in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, played Sky Masterson in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls and Oscar Jaffe in the 2015 revival of On the Twentieth Century. He won a Theatre World Award in 1983, a Clarence Derwent Award, and earned a 1986 Tony Award nomination. Gallagher brings song, charm and storytelling.