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Bradley Whitford
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- #001
Bradley Whitford's college roommate and best friend was the brother of Richard Schiff, his future co-star on The West Wing (1999).
- #002
Bradley Whitford is close friends with Matthew Perry, his co-star on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006).
- #003
Bradley Whitford and his ex-wife Jane Kaczmarek have three children: Frances Whitford, born in January 1997; George Whitford, born on 23 December 1999; and Mary Louisa Whitford, born on 25 November 2002.
- #004
Bradley Whitford founded the charity Clothes off our Back with his ex-wife Jane Kaczmarek. The charity runs online auctions after major award shows, auctioning off celebrities' dresses, tuxedos and other clothing items. The proceeds go to children's charities such as Cure Autism Now and The Children's Defense Fund.
- #005
Bradley Whitford played a Republican White House Chief of Staff in My Fellow Americans (1996) and a Democratic Deputy White House Chief of Staff in The West Wing (1999).
- #006
Bradley Whitford received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1981).
- #007
Bradley Whitford was in Juilliard School Group 14, alongside classmates Thomas Gibson, Michel Gill and Wendell Pierce.
- #008
If Bradley Whitford could change one thing in his life, he would have started dancing when he was young.
- #009
Bradley Whitford appeared in The Client (1994) alongside Mary-Louise Parker, who would later play his love interest on The West Wing (1999).
- #010
Bradley Whitford delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His ex-wife is a distinguished graduate of UW-Madison.
- #011
Bradley Whitford traveled through Ohio and Wisconsin as a political surrogate for President Barack Obama, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), U.S. Senate candidate Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) and others.
- #012
Bradley Whitford attended and graduated from Madison East High School in Madison, Wisconsin, on 4 June 1977.
- #013
Bradley Whitford has appeared in four films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Awakenings (1990), Scent of a Woman (1992), Get Out (2017) and The Post (2017).
- #014
Bradley Whitford received his master's degree from the Juilliard School in Manhattan, New York City (1985).
- #015
Bradley Whitford is of English, German, Scottish, Irish and Dutch descent. Most of his family's ancestry traces back to 1600s New England (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont).
- #016
Although Billy Madison (1995) is one of Bradley Whitford's best-known films, he has never actually seen the film's final cut since its release.
- #017
Bradley Whitford is the son of George Van Norman Whitford and the poet and writer Genevieve Smith Whitford.
- #018
Bradley Whitford took part in a video supporting California Proposition 30, a California constitutional amendment to temporarily raise income and sales taxes to fund education and public safety.
- #019
Bradley Whitford has played three unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidates: James G. Blaine (who lost in 1884) in Death by Lightning (2025), William Jennings Bryan (who lost in 1896, 1900 and 1908) in the Drunk History (2013) episode Nashville (2013), and Hubert H. Humphrey (who lost in 1968) in All the Way (2016).
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