Rosanna Arquette
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Fred Melamedis an American actor. After spending most of his early career primarily as a renowned voice over artist, and occasionally playing small roles in films, notably in seven films directed by Woody Allen, he established himself as a character actor, with his role as Sy Ableman in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man (2009).
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About the Fred Melamed
Fred Melamedis an American actor. After spending most of his early career primarily as a renowned voice over artist, and occasionally playing small roles in films, notably in seven films directed by Woody Allen, he established himself as a character actor, with his role as Sy Ableman in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man (2009). Other notable film credits have included In a World… (2012), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Shiva Baby (2020).
His television roles include Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite (2016-2017), Gumbald in Adventure Time (2017-2018), Arthur Hart in WandaVision (2021), and Tom Posorro in Barry (2022-2023). Vulture named him one of the greatest character actors working today.
10 Quotes by Fred Melamed
- 1.
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn’t really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 2.
I don’t really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 3.
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 4.
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 5.
I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a ‘coat’, which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 6.
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 7.
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 8.
I haven’t appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don’t have any immediate plans to do so, but I’m always interested in going back.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 9.
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It’s a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor
- 10.
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like ‘Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn’t want the kids to use the skateboard park’, or ‘Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.’ It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as ‘A Man’.
Fred MelamedAmerican actor