Evan Handler

EVAN HANDLER is best known for playing Harry Goldenblatt on HBOs groundbreaking series (and films) Sex and the City, as well as Charlie Runkle on Showtimes Californication, which completed a seven season run in 2014. More recently, Handler was seen as legendary lawyer Alan Dershowitz, in FXs highly awarded series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. His newest project, The Breaks, premiered on VH1 on February 20, 2017.Prior to his film and television work, Evan earned acclaim in seven Broadway productions, all performed prior to his thirtieth birthday, which included Neil Simons Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound; the national touring company of Master Harold...and the boys (directed by Athol Fugard, and co-starring Zakes Mokae); I Hate Hamlet; and the original cast of John Gaures Six Degrees of Separation, directed by Jerry Zaks, at Lincoln Center Theatre. Numerous Off-Broadway and regional appearances included world and American premieres by Donald Margulies, Jez Butterworth, Howard Brenton, Tony Kushner, Arthur Laurents, and Jacquelyn Reingold at New Yorks Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Playwrights Horizons, as well as Chicagos Steppenwolf Theater, and Seattle Rep. Evan has played leading roles in many additional films and TV shows, including ABCs Its Like, You Know, and NBCs Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and has made numerous memorable guest appearances on Lost, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, and Friends. In 2000, Evan played Larry Fine in ABCs TV movie The Three Stooges, and in 2011 he played Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in HBOs Too Big to Fail. On the big screen, Evan was one of the stars of Ron Howards Ransom, and played featured and leading roles in Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers, Taps, The Chosen, and Sweet Lorraine.Evan is also the author of two highly acclaimed books, each detailing different aspects of his exceptionally long-term survival of a supposedly incurable leukemia, originally diagnosed in 1985. Time On Fire: My Comedy of Terrors, was published by Little, Brown, and Co. in 1996, and was adapted from Handlers hit solo theater piece of the same title, originally presented at New Yorks 2nd Stage Theater, and later at Bostons American Repertory Theater, and in many additional cities. Handlers follow-up book, Its Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive, was released by Riverhead Books in 2008. Handler has also written for The New Yorker; Elle; O, the Oprah Magazine; USA Weekend; Mirabella, and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.