Personal Info
Birth date
1969-04-29 (56 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also known as
بول أدلستين
پاول ادلستین
Paul Adelstein
Biography
Paul Adelstein (born April 29, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the Fox television series Prison Break and his role as paediatrician Cooper Freedman in the ABC medical drama Private Practice. In addition to supporting roles in films such as Intolerable Cruelty and Memoirs of a Geisha, he is also known for his recurring role as Leo Bergen on ABC's Scandal and as Jake Novak in the Bravo television series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. He also played David Sweetzer on the short-lived NBC comedy I Feel Bad. Adelstein co-created the dark comedy TV series Imposters, which aired on Bravo and ran for two 10-episode seasons from 2017 and 2018; he is credited as a writer on six episodes. He also played the role of Shelley Cohen on that show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Adelstein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Grey's Anatomy
8.223
Overview:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.Brooklyn Nine-Nine
8.214
Overview:
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.1
Overview:
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Without a Trace
7.2
Overview:
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.American Dad!
6.975
Overview:
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."Prison Break
8.08
Overview:
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.Chicago P.D.
8.412
Overview:
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.Medium
7.466
Overview:
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.Las Vegas
7.004
Overview:
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.ER
7.826
Overview:
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.Scrubs
8.01
Overview:
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
8
Overview:
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law features ex-superhero Harvey T. Birdman of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as an attorney working for a law firm alongside other cartoon stars from 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. Similarly, Harvey's clients are also primarily composed of characters taken from Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the same era. Many of Birdman's nemeses featured in his former cartoon series also became attorneys, often representing the opposing side of a given case.The Lyon's Den
9.3
Overview:
John "Jack" Turner is a maverick scion from an American political dynasty, a "true believer," who must reconcile his passion for the purity of law in the morally ambiguous world he inhabits, in which no one is who they appear to be. Content with working in a small pro-bono law clinic in Washington, D.C. – at the urging of his more practical longtime friend and colleague, George Riley – Turner reluctantly accepts the position of managing partner in the sponsoring law firm of Lyon, LaCrosse, and Levine in order to save the clinic.Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
5.571
Overview:
Follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from her divorced friends rather than her married ones and it leads her to some unexpected and life-changing experiences.Monsters
7.6
Overview:
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.Scandal
7.136
Overview:
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.Hack
7.722
Overview:
Hack is a television series that aired on the American CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The series centers on the fictional life of a former police officer, Polish-American Mike Olshansky, who left the force after being charged with corruption and now works as a taxi driver in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Get Shorty
7.041
Overview:
Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.Imposters
7.238
Overview:
Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down.Agatha All Along
7.584
Overview:
Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.Breaking News
5
Overview:
Breaking News is an American drama television series about the fictional Milwaukee-based 24-hour cable news television network I-24, with the motto 'Around the Clock, Around the World.' The series premiered July 17, 2002, on Bravo.Private Practice
7.528
Overview:
Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.Chance
6.928
Overview:
San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.I Feel Bad
5.6
Overview:
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. Okay, she's not perfect. In fact, she's just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to know her kids when they misbehave in public, or when she uses her staff to help solve personal problems. But that's okay, right? Nobody can have it all and do it perfectly.Cupid
7.3
Overview:
Trevor Hale is an attractive, sarcastic and irreverent man who claims to be Cupid, the Roman god of love, and has descended from Mount Olympus to work on Earth.True Story
7.081
Overview:
A world-famous comedian desperately searches for a way out after a night in Philadelphia with his brother threatens to sabotage more than his success.The Menu
7.174
Overview:
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.Acting
TBANobody's Watching (1 Episode) as Jeff Tucker
TBAThe Audacity as Dr. Gary Felder
2026Crime 101 as Unknown
2024Monsters (1 Episode) as David Conn
2024Agatha All Along (2 Episodes) as Jeff Kaplan
2024We Strangers as Ed Laich
2022The Menu as Ted
2022The Greatest Beer Run Ever as Mr. Donohue
2021True Story (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2018I Feel Bad (13 Episodes) as David
2017Get Shorty (1 Episode) as Wes Krupke
2017Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk as Allen
2017Imposters (4 Episodes) as Shelly Cohen
2016Chance (10 Episodes) as Raymond Blackstone
2016The Phenom as Scott Borwitz
2016Mothers and Daughters as Peter
2014Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (26 Episodes) as Jake
2014Return to Zero as Aaron Royal
2014Chicago P.D. (6 Episodes) as Jason Crawford
2013Brooklyn Nine-Nine (3 Episodes) as Seamus Murphy
2012Scandal (18 Episodes) as Leo Bergen
2010Happy Sushi as Guy at Table
2009Little Fish, Strange Pond as Philly
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2009Land of the Lost as Astronaut (voice)
2009The Missing Person as Drexler Hewitt
2007Private Practice (111 Episodes) as Cooper Freedman
2005Memoirs of a Geisha as Lieutenant Hutchins
2005Prison Break (53 Episodes) as Paul Kellerman
2005Grey's Anatomy (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. Cooper Freedman, Cooper Freedman
2005Be Cool as Hy Gordon
2005American Dad! (1 Episode) as Kevin Brougham (voice)
2005Medium (1 Episode) as Craig
2004Collateral as Fed #3
2003The Lyon's Den (1 Episode) as Unknown
2003Las Vegas (1 Episode) as Unknown
2003Intolerable Cruelty as Wrigley
2002Hack (9 Episodes) as Aldo Rossi
2002Without a Trace (1 Episode) as Dave Lovitt
2002Breaking News (13 Episodes) as Julian Kerbis
2001Scrubs (1 Episode) as Dr. Stone
2000Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000Bedazzled as Bob / Roberto / Beach Jock / Sportscaster / Lincoln Aide
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Dr. Neil Alexander
1999Turks (13 Episodes) as Cliff
1998Cupid (17 Episodes) as Mike
1997My Best Friend's Wedding as Brunch Guest (uncredited)
1997Peoria Babylon as Unknown
1994ER (1, 1 Episode) as Hank Loman, Paul
1990The Grifters as Sailor - Young Paul
Writing
2017Imposters (6 Episodes) ... Writer
Directing
2017Imposters (1 Episode) ... Director
Creator
2017Imposters ... Creator