Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin is an American actor and director. He is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards, and a DGA Award. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. He is also one of the three actors to portray Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck on Monk. Between 2007 and 2009, he starred in Life. Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy and as Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005). His father Alan Arkin and brother Matthew are also actors.

19 August 1956

Born on the same birth date (19 August 1956): José Rubén Zamora

Born on the same birth day (19 August): Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception • Banharn Silpa-archa • Chris Mortimer • Colleen Moore • David A. Gregory • George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd • Gerbrand van den Eeckhout • Hazari Prasad Dwivedi • Ivan Neville • John Dryden • José Rubén Zamora • João Pinto • Nelly Vuksic • Oscar Larrauri • Ring Lardner Jr. • Romeo Miller • Rose Heilbron • Ryan Taylor (footballer, born 1984) • Sid Going • Veronica Roth

Born in the same month (August 1956): Alvin Greenidge • Charalampos Xanthopoulos • Christopher Chessun • Glen Matlock • Jon Schwartz (drummer) • José Luis Montes • Kim Cattrall • Mark Mangino • Sidath Wettimuny