Hamish Linklater was born on July 7, 1976. He is a renowned actor known for playing the role of Matthew Kimble in the movie, “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and as Andrew Keanelly in the series The Crazy Ones. He is a very tall guy with an amazing height of 6 feet 4 inches. He is the son of the vocal coach named Kristin Linklater. Linklater was born as the son of his mother Kristin Linklater and his father James Lincoln Cormeny. His mother is a Professor of Theatre and Chair at the Columbia University of the Acting Division and also a renowned vocal coach. Kristin raised her son in the Berkshires. At that time, she was a founder of the drama troupe Shakespeare & Company. Linklater was only eight years old when he started performing small Shakespeare roles. His maternal grandparents were Marjorie and Eric Linklater. Similarly, his uncles are Magnus Linklater and Andro Linklater.
Linklater studied in the Commonwealth School in Boston and received graduation in the year 1994. Later, he attended Amherst College after the graduation. He made his debut in the movie Groove that was released in 2000. Then after two years, in 2002, he played the role of role as Richard Roth a CNN correspondent in the HBO film “Live from Baghdad”. Later, he began to play in a number of movies like Fantastic Four (2005). He has also played in some television shows like American Dreams as well as Gideon’s Crossing. He was a member in the sitcom called The New Adventures of Old Christine playing the role of the brother of Christine.
In the month of July in 2006, Linklater appeared in “The Busy World Is Hushed” at Playwrights Horizons.
Hushed” at Playwrights Horizons. He played Hamlet in Costa Mesa, California at South Coast Repertory. In 2007, Linklater appeared in the episode “Girth” in the series Pushing Daisies on the channel ABC. He also played in the film “The Violent Kind”. He also appeared as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park. He also starred with Miranda July in the movie The Future. In 2013, he played the role of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher named Ralph Branca in the biopic film 42 by Jackie Robinson. Linklater also joined Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom playing the role of senior producer as Jerry Dantana. He remained for a total of six episodes and left after he earned the role of Andrew Keanelly on the tv series The Crazy Ones. He has also appeared shirtless in a number of movies.
In January 2002, Linklater married Jessica Goldberg. However, the relationship between the husband and wife did not work quite well and the relationship came to an end following a divorce in 2012 after a decade long relationship. In the name of kids, the couple has a beautiful daughter. Later, in 2014, Linklater was seen dating his girlfriend Lily Rabe. Obviously, he is not gay at all.
He does not seem to be active in social networking sites like facebook, twitter and instagram. It may be because he does not have much time for it as he is a very busy person. He has an astounding net worth of $3 million dollars enough to live a comfortable and luxurious life anyone can dream of. For more information regarding his personal life or biography, you can visit several wiki sites in the internet or other sites like IMDb.