Alan Arkin Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

2007 – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Little Miss Sunshine

2013 – 2007 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture – Argo – Little Miss Sunshine

Alan Arkin is an Oscar winning actor, director, comedian, musician and singer born in New York City to Jewish parents in the first half of the twentieth century. With a film career spanning across more than 60 years, Arkin has acted in more than 100 films and has won many awards and nominations.

He was fond of music and acting from his childhood. He started taking acting lessons from the age of ten and continued in that direction even when his family moved to Los Angeles. He later studied drama in different institutions and also learnt about the psychological approach to acting from Benjamin Zemach.

However, he began his career as the lead singer in folk music group he had formed with three of his friends. Later he was drawn to stage acting and went to New York to try his luck at the Broadway. Although he later became more famous as a film star he has never left stage acting and has made his mark in all three mediums; i.e. stage, television and film.