Alan Wolf Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents. An early folk musician with The Tarriers, he scored a top-five hit with "The Banana Boat Song" in 1956. Arkin joined Chicago's The Second City in 1960, bringing improvisational timing to Broadway, where he won a Tony Award in 1963 for Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing.

Arkin earned an Oscar nomination for his very first feature film role as Soviet submarine officer Rozanov in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and earned a second Oscar nomination for Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968). In 2006, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as the foul-mouthed, loving heroin-snorting grandfather Edwin Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine. He received a fourth Oscar nomination as Hollywood producer Lester Siegel in Ben Affleck's Best Picture winner Argo (2012), and earned dual Emmy nominations alongside Michael Douglas in Netflix's The Kominsky Method.