William Garson Paszamant

William Garson Paszamant was born in Highland Park, New Jersey, and earned a degree in theater from Wesleyan University followed by an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He appeared in dozens of 1980s and 1990s television shows including Cheers, Boy Meets World, NYPD Blue, and The X-Files, alongside feature film appearances in Groundhog Day and Being John Malkovich.

Garson became a pop-culture fixture in 1998 playing Stanford Blatch, the loyal, impeccably dressed talent agent and confidant to Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw in HBO's Sex and the City, reprising the role across six seasons, two feature films, and the revival And Just Like That.... From 2009 to 2014, he co-starred as brilliant conspiratorial con-man Mozzie in USA Network's White Collar. Off-screen, he was an impassioned advocate for foster care adoption after adopting his son Nathen in 2009.