Oz

American television series

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  • directed by Buscemi
    • Steve Buscemi
      In Steve Buscemi: Directing and other activities

      …of numerous TV shows, including Oz, Nurse Jackie, 30 Rock, Portlandia, and Miracle Workers. For The Sopranos, he helmed one of the show’s most memorable episodes, “Pine Barrens” (2001) from season three. His other work includes hosting the Web series Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2014–15), which features interviews with…

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  • history of television in the U.S.
    • Milton Berle
      In Television in the United States: Quality dramas

      HBO’s Oz (1997–2003) and The Sopranos (1999–2007), gritty series set, respectively, in a prison and in the world of organized crime, were both created by veteran writers and producers of network quality series. The latter became one of television’s biggest success stories in the early 21st…

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    • Milton Berle
      In Television in the United States: New boundaries: the growth of cable

      …and critically well-received series as Oz (1997–2003); The Sopranos (1999–2007); Sex and the City (1998–2004), an adult romantic comedy focused on four women friends in New York City; Six Feet Under (2001–05), the saga of a dysfunctional-family-run mortuary business; Deadwood (2004–06), a

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role of

    • Falco
      • Edie Falco
        In Edie Falco

        …the acclaimed HBO prison drama Oz, on which she played a single mother and correctional officer for three seasons. Among those impressed by her performance was writer-producer David Chase, who in 1998 cast her in a lead role on a pilot he was creating for HBO, The Sopranos. The following…

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    • Grey
      • Joel Grey in Cabaret
        In Joel Grey

        Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2001), Oz (2003), and Alias (2005). In 2019 he joined a star-studded cast in The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts, a dramatic reading of the so-called Mueller report, which documented the investigation of possible Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election of…

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    • LuPone
      • Patti LuPone
        In Patti LuPone

        …roles on the TV series Oz, 30 Rock, American Horror Story, and Penny Dreadful. Her memoir Patti LuPone was published in 2010.

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    • Moreno
      • Rita Moreno
        In Rita Moreno

        …nun/counselor in the prison drama Oz (1997–2003), and she had guest roles in numerous series, including The Golden Girls, Miami Vice, Murphy Brown, and Ugly Betty. Moreno also provided the voice of the title character in the PBS series Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? She later

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    • Simmons
      • J.K. Simmons
        In J.K. Simmons

        …in the prison-drama TV series Oz (1997–2003). Simmons played the newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021); the first three films were directed by Raimi. Simmons appeared in Jason Reitman’s satiric film…

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