Pun Bandhu
Known For: Acting
Biography
Pun Bandhu is an American actor, producer, and advocate of Thai descent, born in Indonesia where his banker father worked, and raised from age 13 in Chatham, New Jersey, where his mother ran the acclaimed restaurant The New Main Taste. He is 5′ 10″ (178 cm) tall, earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and received his MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama (2000), where he now serves on the Advisory Board. He is a two-time Tony Award-winning producer through his company ZenDog Productions — for the 2005 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross (Best Play Revival) and the 2007 musical Spring Awakening (Best Musical) — and a co-founder of the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC), for which he received an Obie Award and a Tony Honor. He is a Tony Award nominator, and lives in Cornwall, Connecticut, with his husband Marc Falato. His most notable film credits include Fourth Year in Michael Clayton (2007), Party Guest in Burn After Reading (2008, directed by the Coen Brothers), Joe in Two Days in New York (2012, with Chris Rock), Forensic Scientist in The Judge (2014, with Robert Downey Jr.), Yet Another Anchorman in Money Monster (2016, with Daniel Craig and George Clooney), Agent Doyle in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018, with Melissa McCarthy, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes), Deputy Attorney John Woo in The Report (2019, with Adam Driver and Annette Bening), and Lee in Relay (2025, with Riz Ahmed, Lili James, and Sam Worthington). On television he has appeared in Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2004), Nurse Jackie (2009), The Good Wife (2012), House of Cards (2013), Orange Is the New Black (2013), Gotham (2014, 2016), Blindspot (2015, 2017), FBI (2018), and Elsbeth (2024, as Victor Landis). On stage he made his Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated revival of Wit (2012, with Cynthia Nixon), and has performed Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and Primary Stages, collaborating with playwrights including AR Gurney, David Henry Hwang, and Theresa Rebeck.
Filmography
2025
- Relay as Lee
2024
- Elsbeth as Victor Landis
2020
- FBI: Most Wanted as Tony Simpson
2019
- The Report as John Yoo
- Almost Love as Doctor
2018
- FBI as Kenneth Landry
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Agent Doyle
2016
- Money Monster as Yet Another Anchorman
2015
- Blindspot as Panit
- Difficult People as Detective
- Allegiance as Doug Peters
2014
- Gotham as Date
- The Judge as Forensic Scientist
- A Good Marriage as TV Anchor
- Late Phases as Donald
2013
- Orange Is the New Black as Mitchell Kanter
2012
- Elementary as Lab Assistant
- 2 Days in New York as Joe
2011
- Body of Proof as Frank Ling
2009
- The Good Wife as Hal Tasker
- White Collar as Casey Mendell
- Nurse Jackie as Dr. Saqr
2008
- Burn After Reading as Party Guest
2007
- Michael Clayton as Fourth Year
2006
- Conviction as Kenneth Duggan
2002
- Without a Trace as Evidence Tech
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Dr. Pirapan
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge Howard Yun
1990
- Law & Order as Jeff Green