- Platt has joined the cast of the HBO movie STRIP SEARCH for director Sidney Lumet -- The project follows several intertwined stories, each exploring crime and punishment in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. (July 4, 2003)
- He is an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
- A second-cousin-once-removed of Diana, Princess of Wales.
- Is a cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales. Both he and the late Princess of Wales are great-great-grandchildren of Frances Eleanor Work (1857-1947), an American heiress, and her first husband, James Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy (1851-1920). He's also a great-grandson of the turn of the century US ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Hodges Choate, as well as a great-grandson of the eminent American society architect Charles A. Platt.
- Was nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy in 1999 for DOCTOR DOLITTLE.
- David E. Kelley originally wanted him to play the role of Bobby Donnell on the TV show THE PRACTICE (1997)
- Is a distant cousin of Orson Welles.
- Nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at Emmy Awards for The West Wing (2001)
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