Born in Boston to a Belarusian-Jewish mother and an Austrian-Jewish father, Newman graduated from Boston Latin School, earned an anthropology degree at Brandeis, served in the 3rd Army Band, and pursued a master’s at Columbia before a Lee Strasberg class convinced him to turn to acting. His stage debut came in Herman Wouk’s comedy Nature’s Way, followed by Broadway roles in The Mousetrap, What Mak…
