It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive
(A provocative memoir by the cable television celebrity be...)
A provocative memoir by the cable television celebrity best known for his role as Harry Goldenblatt from Sex and the City documents his survival of a seemingly incurable form of leukemia, the life philosophy that has enabled his positive outlook, and his relationships with his friends and family.
Ethnicity:
Handler was born in New York City, to secular Jewish parents.
Evan Handler was born on January 10, 1961, in Queens, NY, in the family of Murry Raymond and Enid Irene (maiden name, Ostrov) Handler. He was raised in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, near Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Handler has a brother Lowell and a sister Lillian. Lowell Handler, a writer and photographer, is the author of the book Twitch & Shout: A Touretter's Tale and the star, narrator, and associate producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS television documentary Twitch & Shout, in which Evan appeared.
Education
Evan attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. Then in 1979-81 he attended Julliard School.
Career
After graduating from high school, he moved to New York City and worked as an intern at the Chelsea Theater Center. During that time he appeared in the Off-Broadway plays Biography: A Game and Strider: The Story of a Horse. Handler left the four-year program in Julliard after less than two years to accept a role in the 1981 film Taps.
Handler has appeared in television dramas and sitcoms including Six Feet Under, Friends, Law & Order, The West Wing, Miami Vice, Sex and the City, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Ed, Lost and 24. He was a co-star in the ABC sitcoms It's Like, You Know... and Hot Properties and starred in the ill-fated FOX sitcom Woops!.
In 2000, Handler portrayed Larry Fine in the made-for-TV biopic The Three Stooges. He played Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in the HBO movie, Too Big to Fail. Handler has been most recently seen on Californication where he plays Charlie Runkle.In 2016 he has a recurring role in American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson as Alan Dershowitz, an appellate adviser for the defense in the O. J. Simpson murder case in 1995.
Achievements
Evan is best known for playing Charlie Runkle, Hank Moody's comically bumbling friend and agent, on Californication (2007–2014) and Harry Goldenblatt, a divorce attorney and later husband of Charlotte York on Sex and the City (2002–2004).
