Actor Bio
Following appearances in several major films and guest stints on various TV series, this sharp actor now bowls us over each week as the comical Dr. Cooper Freedman on ABC’s Private Practice.
Paul Adelstein's films include
Memoirs of a Geisha,
Be Cool, opposite John Travolta and Uma Thurman,
Collateral, opposite Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox, and
Intolerable Cruelty, opposite George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones.
Adelstein has also appeared in several television series, including his role as Agent Paul Kellerman in
Prison Break, and had guest roles on
ER,
Without a Trace,
Medium,
Scrubs,
Nobody's Watching,
Las Vegas and
Law & Order.
A Chicago native, Adelstein started his career on stage with John Cusack's New Crime Productions and the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Also a songwriter, singer and composer, one of Adelstein's songs can be heard in the Coen Brothers' movie,
Burn After Reading.