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Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955 in Armonk, New York) is an American actor of Irish Catholic descent, first becoming noted for his role around Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). He presently stars when a pater familias Sandy Cohen, a public defender & corporate attorney, on the Fox television show The O.C.. He hwhen recently get quite easily-known, as his trademark is his big bushy brow. He at present hosts an annual award ceremony known as "The Sandy Cohen Awards", or even A Sandys, which within honor of his character today give the scholarship to the school of law student at UC Berkeley world health organization wants to get a public defender. He occurs as graduate of Tufts University.

Gallagher besides specializes inside character area of variable degrees two proficient or even badness guys. He played the expected career threat to Tim Robbins studio executive in The Player as a possible replacement; a coma-caused "fiancee" of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping; an egotistical real estate salesman getting an affair using Annette Bening in American Beauty; and the nefarious media executive in Mr. Deeds, in one of the film's more inspired moments when a game of tennis turns into a full tennis ball assault on his head.

Partial filmography
The O.C. (2003) How to Deal (2003) Mr. Deeds (2002) Center Stage (2000) American Beauty (1999) The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) To Gillian on her 37th Birthday (1996) Titanic (TV) (1996) While You Were Sleeping (1995) The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) The Player (1992) Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) ''Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) Summer Lovers'' (1982)

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