Rob Morrow Interview on the Jon Stewart Show (October 10, 1994)

Robert Alan Morrow (born September 21, 1962)[1] is an American actor and director. He is known for his portrayal of Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure, a role that garnered him three Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, and later for his role as FBI agent Don Eppes on Numb3rs.
Early life[edit]
Morrow was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Diane Francis (née Markowitz), a dental hygienist, and Murray Morrow, an industrial lighting manufacturer.[2] He is Jewish, and had a Reform Bar Mitzvah.[3] Morrow grew up in Hartsdale, New York. [4] His parents divorced when he was nine years old.[5] He attended Cardigan Mountain School and Edgemont High School[6][7] and dropped out at the beginning of his senior year to begin his acting career.[8]
Career[edit]
Morrow's film career began when he appeared as an extra at age 18 on Saturday Night Live.[9] He co-starred alongside Johnny Depp in Private Resort (1985).[10]
Morrow played the lead role in the television show Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995.[11][12] Morrow's character, Joel Fleischman, is "a New York City physician who is surprised to be assigned to the isolated and icy town of Cicely, Alaska".[13] For his work on Northern Exposure, Morrow was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards[14][15][16][17] and two Emmy Awards.[14][18][19] He left the CBS comedy-drama in 1995 to act in movies.[20][21]
Morrow starred in the critically acclaimed film Quiz Show (1994) as Dick Goodwin, a congressional investigator intent on uncovering the corruption behind the 1950s game show scandal.[citation needed] Morrow played the younger brother of Albert Brooks' character in Mother (1996).[22] In 2000, he directed and starred in Maze, about an artist with Tourette syndrome.[23]
Morrow in 1991
In 2002, Morrow played Kevin Hunter on the Showtime television series Street Time.[citation needed] He also appeared in the television film Custody.[citation needed] In 2007, he played Jack Nicholson's doctor, Dr. Hollins, in The Bucket List.[citation needed] From 2005 to 2010, he starred with David Krumholtz and Judd Hirsch as FBI agent Don Eppes in Numb3rs on CBS.[24][25][26] On March 8, 2010, it was announced that Morrow had signed on to star in Jerry Bruckheimer's new series, The Whole Truth, on ABC.[27] The series aired on September 13, 2010, but was pulled from the ABC schedule in December. Morrow filmed 13 episodes.[citation needed] Morrow starred as Henry Rearden in Atlas Shrugged: Part III, which was released September 12, 2014.[citation needed] In 2017, Morrow starred in the recurring role of reporter Abe Leonard in the first season of the ABC political drama Designated Survivor.[28] He also starred in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story as Barry Scheck.[citation needed] As of November 2018, news was released that a revival of Northern Exposure was in the works at CBS and that Morrow would return as Joel Fleischman.[29]
Morrow has a recurring role on the Showtime drama Billions as judge Adam DeGiulio.[30][31]
Morrow is a teacher at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica. During the summer of 2019, he starred as Willy Loman in the theater's production of Death of a Salesman.[32]
Personal life[edit]
On his 36th birthday in 1998, Morrow married actress Debbon Ayer.[33] They have one daughter, Tu Morrow, born in 2001.[34] They live in Santa Monica, California.[35] Morrow previously lived in Seattle at the time of filming Northern Exposure.[12]

[@gregruddock5662]

I really wish they had not done season 6. The show utterly lost its way halfway through season 5. Writers were no longer following the characters and started pushing them uphill.

[@m1t2a1]

I can hear the theme for Northern Exposure in my head.

[@rebeccae.5217]

Oh Lordy, Jon Stewart makes me laugh! Such "candid" pics! 🤣 Just a natural. Rob Morrow is so different from Joel here - so soft spoken, almost shy. Such a great actor - he really became Joel. Am enjoying "Northern Exposure" again 30 years later, now that it's finally streaming!

[@nc9831]

Jon is a baby. Jon and Janeane Turner went much different directions politically later, so I'm sure he didn't see her so favorably later on. I've never looked up my favorite show of all time and it's fun to see these old interviews from when it was still on the air. Rob's so soft spoken compared to Joel Fleishman. Much more likeable. Haha.

[@mas2913]

wow Jon Stewart has evolved

[@brianmelendy1194]

The reason Norther Exposure ended was because Rob Morrow didn't want to do it anymore. Then claims it was the greatest thing he's done, brings it up to this day.

[@toomuchinformation]

His film career didn't take off the way he hoped, although he got off to a good start with: "Quiz Show".

[@WeezyD313]

Adam DeGulio?

[@angelcitystudio]

BEST SHOW EVER!! SO GLAD Amazon Prime is FINALLY releasing it after 30 years. Rob is so quiet and mellow in this interview... On the show he is so neurotic and hysterical and high strung. And Janine Turner turned out to be a christlamic anti Semetic Trumper so... NOPE. No dating Jon Stewart. He dodged a bullet.

[@flourchylde]

WTF! Just because she's a Trumper does not make her anti-Semitic. She and Rob were great friends during the NE years and still are.

[@tuckamania76]

First of all name one thing that makes a Trump supporter an antisemite. That is a stupid assumption based on no fact other than your very own prejudice. Second, which side has displayed the blatant antisemitism on college campuses the last few months? The Left. Those are not Trump supporters, those people on college campuses are products of leftwing extremism, and they are deeply antisemitic. 99% of Trump supporters believe in supporting Israel, very different story on the left.

[@allthingsclassicrock]

It’s amazing how people have turned on her because of her political beliefs.

[@angelcitystudio]

@@flourchylde Back in the day, most of us were republicans. VERY DIFFERENT TIMES back then.

[@angelcitystudio]

@@allthingsclassicrock Yea... White christian nationalism just gets a bad rap... Jewish people and native Americans and LGBT and Immigrants are just so sensitive. 🙄

[@binaryflat]

NE revolve around the main character Joel, and when he left, the show disintegrated... It was embarrassing and unwatchable.

[@user-mr6vo8ks9q]

Not to me.

[@bheinselman]

Before Jon became a douche.