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F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

Born: 1939-10-24 • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award, four Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He became famous for portraying Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Abraham debuted on Broadway in the 1968 play The Man in the Glass Booth. He received the Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for his roles in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1984) and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2011). He returned to Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally's comedy It's Only a Play (2014), receiving a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play nomination.

He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men (1976), Scarface (1983), The Name of the Rose (1986), Last Action Hero (1993), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Dillinger and Capone (1995), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Finding Forrester (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).

He was a regular cast member on the Showtime drama series Homeland (2012–2018), which earned him two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He also acted in Louie (2011–2014), Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022) and The White Lotus (2022), with the latter earning him nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award.

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Filmography
Bookends poster
Bookends
2026 • Saul Cohen
This Ordinary Thing poster
This Ordinary Thing
2025 • Self (voice)
Milarepa poster
Milarepa
2025 • Oyun
The Phoenician Scheme poster
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 • Prophet
Mother, Couch poster
Mother, Couch
2024 • Marcus / Marco
Double Soul poster
Double Soul
2023 • Mentor
The Magic Flute poster
The Magic Flute
2022 • Dr. Longbow
The Siege of Vienna poster
The Siege of Vienna
2022
No Image
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022 • Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight poster
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022 • Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Things Heard & Seen poster
Things Heard & Seen
2021 • Floyd DeBeers
Lady and the Tramp poster
Lady and the Tramp
2019 • Tony
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail poster
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019 • Ayatollah (archive footage)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World poster
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019 • Grimmel (voice)
The Letter poster
The Letter
2018 • Narrator
Robin Hood poster
Robin Hood
2018 • Cardinal
Super Cats poster
Super Cats
2018 • Narrator (voice)
Every Act of Life poster
Every Act of Life
2018 • Self
Isle of Dogs poster
Isle of Dogs
2018 • Jupiter (voice)
411 poster
411
2015 • Information (voice)
A Little Game poster
A Little Game
2014 • Norman Wallach
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' poster
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014 • Self
The Grand Budapest Hotel poster
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 • Mr. Moustafa
The Mystery of Dante poster
The Mystery of Dante
2014 • Dante Alter Ego
Inside Llewyn Davis poster
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 • Bud Grossman
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die poster
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013 • Braque
Love, Marilyn poster
Love, Marilyn
2013 • Self
Dead Man Down poster
Dead Man Down
2013 • Gregor
Goltzius & the Pelican Company poster
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012 • The Margrave
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 poster
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012 • Marco D'Aviano
No Image
The Unseen World
2012 • John Henry Newman
No Image
Beauty and the Beast
2012 • Cyril
Is That Skunk? poster
Is That Skunk?
2011 • Narrator
No Image
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
2010 • Narrates Program One
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air poster
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010
In the Valley of the Wolves poster
In the Valley of the Wolves
2010 • Narrator
Barbarossa poster
Barbarossa
2009 • Siniscalco Barozzi
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… poster
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009 • Self
Perestroika poster
Perestroika
2009 • Professor Gross
No Image
The Dragon Chronicles
2009 • Narrator
Carnera: The Walking Mountain poster
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008 • Leon See
Shark Swarm poster
Shark Swarm
2008 • Professor Bill Girdler
No Image
A House Divided
2008 • Grandfather Wahid
Ballerina poster
Ballerina
2008 • Goran
No Image
The Beauty of Ugly
2007 • Self - Narrator (voice)
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America poster
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
2007 • Narrator
Blood Monkey poster
Blood Monkey
2007 • Professor Hamilton
Come le formiche poster
Come le formiche
2007 • Ruggero
The Final Inquiry poster
The Final Inquiry
2007 • Nathan
Quiet Flows The Don poster
Quiet Flows The Don
2006 • Pantaley
The Stone Merchant poster
The Stone Merchant
2006 • Shahid
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers poster
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
2006 • Jeffrey
40 Years of Star Trek poster
40 Years of Star Trek
2006 • Self
The Bridge of San Luis Rey poster
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004 • Viceroy of Peru
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire poster
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004
My Father poster
My Father
2003 • Paul Minsky
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks poster
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
2003 • Self
Five Moons Plaza poster
Five Moons Plaza
2003 • Entita
Ticker poster
Ticker
2002 • Airport Guru
The Making of 'Amadeus' poster
The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002 • Self - Salieri
Joshua poster
Joshua
2002 • Father Tardone
Thir13en Ghosts poster
Thir13en Ghosts
2001 • Cyrus
Knights Of The Quest poster
Knights Of The Quest
2001 • Delfinello da Coverzano
Un dono semplice poster
Un dono semplice
2000 • 主演
Finding Forrester poster
Finding Forrester
2000 • Robert Crawford
The Darkling poster
The Darkling
2000 • Bruno Rubin
The Directors: Milos Forman poster
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000 • Self
Excellent Cadavers poster
Excellent Cadavers
1999 • Tommaso Buscetta
Muppets from Space poster
Muppets from Space
1999 • Noah
Esther poster
Esther
1999 • Mordechai
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy poster
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
1999 • Professor Henry Covington
Star Trek: Insurrection poster
Star Trek: Insurrection
1998 • Ad'har Ru'afo
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin poster
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
1998 • Himself
Vacation in Hell poster
Vacation in Hell
1997 • Belisario
No Image
Einstein Revealed
1997 • Narrator
Color of Justice poster
Color of Justice
1997 • Jim Sullivan
Mimic poster
Mimic
1997 • Dr. Gates
Eruption poster
Eruption
1997 • President Mendoza
Children of the Revolution poster
Children of the Revolution
1996 • Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Puma: Lion of the Andes poster
Puma: Lion of the Andes
1996 • Narrator (voice)
Looking for Richard poster
Looking for Richard
1996 • Self
Baby Face Nelson poster
Baby Face Nelson
1996 • Al Capone
Mighty Aphrodite poster
Mighty Aphrodite
1995 • Chorleiter
Dillinger and Capone poster
Dillinger and Capone
1995 • Al Capone
Nostradamus poster
Nostradamus
1994 • Scalinger
Fresh poster
Fresh
1994 • Chess Hustler
Surviving the Game poster
Surviving the Game
1994 • Wolfe, Sr.
L'Affaire poster
L'Affaire
1994 • Lucien Haslans
Jamila poster
Jamila
1994 • Older Seit
No Image
Sweet Killing
1993 • Zargo
Journey to the Center of the Earth poster
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993 • Professor Harlech
Last Action Hero poster
Last Action Hero
1993 • John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 poster
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993 • Harold Leacher
Through an Open Window poster
Through an Open Window
1992 • Narrator
The First Circle poster
The First Circle
1992 • Stalin
Eye of the Widow poster
Eye of the Widow
1991 • Kharoun
By the Sword poster
By the Sword
1991 • Suba
Mobsters poster
Mobsters
1991 • Arnold Rothstein
Money poster
Money
1991 • Will Scarlet
The Bonfire of the Vanities poster
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990 • D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)