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Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman

Actor · Born 1945-08-31 · Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]

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Biography

Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher. Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and at President Barack Obama's inauguration. He has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has received 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and four Emmy Awards. Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were Jewish natives of Poland and had independently emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) in the mid-1930s before they met and later married. Perlman contracted polio at age four and has walked using leg braces and crutches since then and plays the violin while seated. As of 2018, he uses crutches or an electric Amigo scooter for mobility. Perlman first became interested in the violin after hearing a classical music performance on the radio. At the age of three, he was denied admission to the …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Fantasia 2000 (2000) — Self - Host
  2. Everyone Says I Love You (1996) — Self
  3. Music of the Heart (1999) — Self
  4. Here Today (2021) — Himself
  5. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
  6. Music by John Williams (2024) — Self - Violinist
  7. Before (2024) — Drake
  8. American Masters (1986) — Self
  9. Great Performances (1971) — Self
  10. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  11. Billy Joel: And So It Goes (2025) — Self
  12. Itzhak (2017) — Self
  13. Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (2018) — Self
  14. The Kennedy Center Honors (1978) — Self
  15. Small Wonders (1996) — Self
  16. Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2019) — Self
  17. A John Williams Celebration (2015) — Self
  18. Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988) — Self
  19. Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! (1990) — Self (archive footage)
  20. Love, Sidney (1981) — Self
  21. Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994) — Self (archive footage)
  22. The Legendary Victor Borge (2004) — Host
  23. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
  24. Previn and the Pittsburgh (1977) — Self
  25. Be My Guest with Ina Garten (2022) — Self - Guest
  26. Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler (2011) — Self
  27. Perlman in Russia (1992)
  28. Visions of Israel (2008) — Host
  29. Orchestra of Exiles (2012) — Self
  30. Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano (2003) — Self (violinist)
  31. A Tribute to Victor Borge (2008) — Himself
  32. The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow (1994) — Self
  33. The Trout (1970) — Self - Violinist
  34. We Want the Light (2004) — Self
  35. Eugene Ormandy / Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky (1978) — Self
  36. Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity (2018) — Self
  37. Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist (1978) — Self
  38. Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy (1995) — Self
  39. Beethoven/Brahms - Violin Concertos (Perlman, Barenboim) (1992) — Self
  40. Beethoven - Triple Concerto Symphony No. 6 (2012) — Self - Conductor