Tony Goldwyn stars as District Attorney Nick Baxter on the 24th season of the hit NBC drama "Law & Order."

Goldwyn directed the critically acclaimed feature film "Ezra," with Bobby Cannavale and Robert De Niro. He also has a role in the film, reuniting him with "Ghost" castmate Whoopi Goldberg. The film debuted at TIFF and won awards at the Boulder and Sun Valley Film Festivals.

Goldwyn was recently seen in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film "Oppenheimer." Other recent credits include the award-winning ensemble of "King Richard," starring Will Smith, and NatGeo's limited series "The Hot Zone," streaming on Hulu.

Further film credits include "Plane," with Gerard Butler, "Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House," "The Belko Experiment" and "Divergent." Goldwyn first caught audiences' attention in the box-office smash "Ghost." He has appeared in numerous other films, including "The Pelican Brief," "Kiss the Girls," "Nixon," "The Substance of Fire," "The Last Samurai" and the remake of Wes Craven's classic "The Last House on the Left." He's familiar to children as the title voice in Disney's "Tarzan."

Goldwyn made his feature directorial debut with "A Walk on the Moon." The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, receiving praise from critics as well as special recognition from the National Board of Review for Excellence in Independent Filmmaking. Other feature directing credits include "The Last Kiss," for which Goldwyn received Best Director from the Boston Film Festival, and the romantic comedy "Someone Like You." "Conviction," starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell, earned Swank a SAG Award nomination, won Best Film at the Boston Film Festival and was awarded a Freedom of Expression honor from the National Board of Review.

Television acting credits include Goldwyn's performance of President Fitzgerald Grant in Shonda Rhimes' "Scandal," a guest appearance on HBO's "Lovecraft Country" and a role co-starring with Uma Thurman in the Netflix series "Chambers." Additional credits include "The Good Wife," "Dexter," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Without a Trace," "The L Word," "From the Earth to the Moon," "Frasier," "Murphy Brown" and "Designing Women."

Goldwyn directed multiple episodes of "Scandal" along with episodes of "Chambers," "Dexter" and "The L Word." He also helmed "Justified," "Law & Order," "Damages" and "Grey's Anatomy," among others.

Goldwyn began his acting career on the stage, spending seven seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival. New York theater credits include "The Water's Edge" and "Spike Heels" at Second Stage Theater; "The Dying Gaul" at Vineyard Theatre; "Holiday" at Circle in the Square Theatre; "The Sum of Us" at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for which he won an Obie Award; "Digby" at Manhattan Theatre Club; and the revival of "Promises, Promises" on Broadway. Additionally, he starred in back-to-back critically acclaimed Broadway productions: Tony and Olivier Award-winner "The Inheritance" from Matthew Lopez and directed by Stephen Daldry and Ivo van Hove's "Network," starring Bryan Cranston.

He also dedicates much of his personal time to philanthropic work. Goldwyn serves as an ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, is a board member for the humanitarian relief organization Americares, is a trustee for Second Stage Theater, sits on the MPTF Foundation Board of Governors and is on the Board of Trustees at the Innocence Project.