Stuart Pankin is an American actor best known for The Artist, Arachnophobia, and Fatal Attraction. Other film credits include The Binding, Public Interest, Now You Know, Napoleon, I Love Trouble, Life Stinks, Irreconcilable Differences, and Next Stop, Greenwich Village.

Television credits include Mark Gerard on NBC’s For Your Love, Benny Appleman on CBS’ Knots Landing, Bob Charles on HBO’s Not Necessarily the News, and Jace Sampson on CBS’ Falcon Crest.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Sheriff of Northampton in Mary Stuart, Thomas Putnam/Others in The Crucible, Priest/Others in Twelfth Night, and Second Peasant/Others in Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vivian Beaumont Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Gavrillo in Gorky (American Place Theatre), Zeus/Others in Wings (Eastside Playhouse), and Elephant in The Tale of Cymbeline, Soldier/Others in Timon of Athens, Herbert/Others in Richard III, and John Mortimer/Southwell/Others in The Chronicles of King Henry VI, Part 1/2 (Delacorte Theatre).