Ron Rifkin Biography

Fast Facts

• Made Broadway debut in Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn in 1961
• Frustrated with acting, he quit the business in the mid-1980s and went into the fashion industry with his wife
• The coats they designed, under the Carole Little label, were sold in stores including Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's and Bergdorf Goodman
• He returned to acting a few years later
• Frequently works with playwright Jon Robin Baitz, including the plays The Substance of Fire, Ten Unknowns and The Paris Letter
• Narrates a number of audio books, including Lois Lowry's The Giver, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Sang Spell and Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed
• A former marathon runner, he was forced to quit running due to bad knees