- Source of Wealth: Stage, Film and Television
- Age: 85
- Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Height: 5′ 9½” (1.77 m)
- Marital Status: Married (Suzanne Newlander)
- Full Name: Alan Wolf Arkin
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: March 26, 1934
- Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
- Occupation: Actor, Director, Musician, Singer
- Education: Los Angeles City College, Bennington College
- Children: 3 (Adam, Matthew, Anthony)
Alan Arkin is an American actor, director, musician and singer who has an estimated net worth of $15 million. Born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, the family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11. He was fond of music and acting from an early age. At ten, he took various acting classes and became a scholarship student at different drama academies.
Alan Arkin struggled as a young actor and played bit parts on television and on stage. His first big screen appearance was in 1957 as a lead singer with The Tarriers in Calypso Heat Wave. Since then, he has gone to appear in television, film and on-stage.
Arkin is best noted for his starring roles in the films Wait Until Dark; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Catch-22; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; Glengarry Glen Ross; Thirteen Conversations About One Thing; Little Miss Sunshine; and Argo. With the last two films, he was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, winning for the former. He is also one of only six actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his first screen appearance, in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming in 1966.