Profile:
Born: August 7 1960 in New York USA.
Star sign: Leo.
Parents: His Russian-Jewish father and Scottish mother, who was a schoolteacher, divorced when he was 11.
Education: BA from Princeton University and MA in English Literature from Yale University.
Previous jobs: Delivering meat, teaching assistant, caterer and bartender.
Lives: A Malibu beachfront home in Los Angeles.
Love life: After several girlfriends, he fell in love and married actress Tea Leoni in 1997; they have one daughter called Madelaine West.
