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Dan Ziskie

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Dan Ziskie in House of Cards (2013)
Oscar-winner writer Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK follows the life of regional theater director Caden Cotard (Phillip Seymour Hoffman).
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Known for playing Vice President Jim Mathews on House of Cards and CJ Liquori on HBO's Treme. Dan is from Detroit and got involved in the improvisational theater scene in Chicago, and worked closely there with Del Close. In New York he has been active in theater, both on and off Broadway, and in film and television. Early films include Adventures in Babysitting and Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs. Recent films include Concussion and the thriller Mercy.
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    Known for

    Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, and Anthony Rapp in Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
    Adventures in Babysitting
    6.9
    • Mr. Anderson
    • 1987
    Catherine Zeta-Jones and Justin Bartha in The Rebound (2009)
    The Rebound
    6.3
    • Ken Gordon(as Daniel Ziskie)
    • 2009
    Paul Walker in Eight Below (2006)
    Eight Below
    7.3
    • Navy Commander
    • 2006
    Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, Michael Kevin Walker, Ed Vassallo, Michael Arthur, Becky Ann Baker, Gene Barry, David Alan Basche, John Michael Bolger, Justin Chatwin, Robert Cicchini, Vito D'Ambrosio, Marianne Ebert, John Eddins, Dakota Fanning, Daniel Franzese, Peter Gerety, Stephen Gevedon, Rick Gonzalez, Jim Hanna, Danny Hoch, Amy Hohn, Tracy Howe, Omar Jermaine, Erika LaVonn, Adam Lazarre-White, Mark Manley, Mariann Mayberry, Sharrieff Pugh, Ana Maria Quintana, Zoe Quist, Ann Robinson, Amy Ryan, Camillia Monet, John Scurti, Yul Vazquez, Lenny Venito, Jerry Walsh, Lisa Ann Walter, Christopher Evan Welch, Julie White, Marlon Young, Dan Ziskie, David Harbour, Michael Stanton, Lisa Waters, Michael Brownlee, GoGo Toucette, Rafael Sardina, Stacy Ann Wilkins, Patrick Tierney, Ty Simpkins, Ed Schiff, Channing Tatum, David Conley, Tommy Guiffre, Michael Waldron, Athena Stamos, January LaVoy, Miguel Antonio Ferrer, Mark Valinsky, Lorelei Llee, Daniel Eric Gold, Ellen Barry, Roz Abrams, Kenneth Wright, Nicole Signore, Tasciotti, Johnny Torres, Rochelle Warner, Joseph Benjamin Stewart, Terry Ward, Tracy Lee Staton, Jessica Anne Taylor, Mike Yedwab, and William G. Stowell in War of the Worlds (2005)
    War of the Worlds
    6.5
    • Informative Guy(as Daniel Ziskie)
    • 2005

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    • Very Close Quarters
      • Thin Man



    • Audra McDonald and Taylor Schilling in The Bite (2021)
      The Bite
      6.8
      TV Mini Series
      • Lt. Governor Ryan Kinney
      • 2021
    • Michael Weatherly in The Necklace (2016)
      Bull
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Walter Franklin
      • 2019
    • Téa Leoni in Madam Secretary (2014)
      Madam Secretary
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Dr. Daniel Reese
      • 2018
    • Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta in Shades of Blue (2016)
      Shades of Blue
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Commission Chairman
      • 2018
    • Tom Selleck, Bridget Moynahan, Donnie Wahlberg, and Will Estes in Blue Bloods (2010)
      Blue Bloods
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Joseph Polito
      • 2017
    • Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (2013)
      House of Cards
      8.6
      TV Series
      • Jim Matthews
      • VP Jim Matthews
      • VP Matthews
      • 2013–2017
    • Emunah
      Short
      • Rabbi Klein
      • 2016
    • Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in Elementary (2012)
      Elementary
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Gordie Kasdan
      • 2016
    • Mercy (2016)
      Mercy
      4.2
      • George
      • 2016
    • Blindspot (2015)
      Blindspot
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Peter Warren
      • 2016
    • Prism (2015)
      Prism
      5.6
      • Leroy
      • 2015
    • Will Smith in Concussion (2015)
      Concussion
      7.1
      • Paul Tagliabue
      • 2015
    • Oscar Isaac in Show Me a Hero (2015)
      Show Me a Hero
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • Harry Oxman
      • 2015
    • Gotham (2014)
      Gotham
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Jude
      • 2015
    • The Blacklist (2013)
      The Blacklist
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Senator Albert R. Mitchell
      • 2014

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    • David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Keach, Neil Ross, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, J.T. Turner, and David Pogue in Nova (1974)
      Nova
      8.7
      TV Series
      • voice
      • 2015

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    In and Around Synecdoche, NY  Incredibly Complicated
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    I Follow You
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    I Follow You
    Everybody Here
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      • Dan Ziske
    • Other works
      Played the British movie star who is mutilated in the Midwest premiere of Heathcote Williams' play "The Local Stigmatic," directed by Gary Houston and presented in Goodman Theatre's Stage 2 series. The rest of the cast: Jim Jacobs, Warren Leming and Leonard Kraft.

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