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): Bill Clinton • Charles Wang • Darius Campbell Danesh • David Rittich • Debra Paget • Fred Stone • Hazari Prasad Dwivedi • Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland • Jack Canfield • Kazuyoshi Tatsunami • Marco Materazzi • Martin Donovan • Mary Joe Fernández • Mike Conway • Paul-Jan Bakker • Renée Richards • Ronald King • Ryan Taylor (footballer, born 1984) • Sotiris Balafas • Veronica Roth

Born in the same month (August 1956): Andy King (footballer, born 1956) • Desmond Swayne • Fulvio Melia • Henri Toivonen • José Luis Montes • Kirk Brandon • Masashi Tashiro • Mária Balážová • Peter Taylor (Australian cricketer) • Rainer Woelki • Sandeep Patil • Tsai Ing-wen • Vahan Hovhannisyan