<P> He starred as psychiatrist Craig "Huff" Huffstodt in the Showtime drama series Huff, which ran for two seasons between 2004 and 2006, airing 24 episodes . Azaria served as an executive producer on the show and directed an episode of its second season . After reading the pilot script, he sent it to Platt, who took the role of Huff's friend Russell Tupper . Azaria enjoyed working on the show, but struggled with the bleak subject matter and was often in dispute with its creator Bob Lowry, noting that it "was tough to marry our visions all the time, (because) we both cared so much about it that neither of us were willing to let go ." Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly called Azaria "impressively subtle" in the role, while John Leonard of New York magazine said he was a "shrewd bit of casting ." The show garnered seven Emmy nominations in 2005, including a nomination for Azaria for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series . Despite the awards, the show continually received low ratings, and Showtime chose not to commission it for a third season . </P> <P> Returning to live - action television in 2011, Azaria starred in the NBC sitcom Free Agents, a remake of the British series of the same name . He played Alex Taylor, a recently divorced public relations executive "who is missing his kids and trying to keep himself together", and ends up sleeping with a co-worker (Kathryn Hahn). Azaria also served as a producer on the show . He was apprehensive about the project, disliking the lengthy schedule required of a lead actor in a single - camera series, and favoring the "sensibility" of cable shows . However, he liked the script and executive producer John Enbom's previous series Party Down and decided to accept the part . Despite Azaria mounting a campaign on Twitter to save it, the series was canceled after four episodes due to low ratings . In 2014, Azaria had a recurring role in the second season of Showtime's Ray Donovan, playing FBI agent Ed Cochran . </P> <P>--Playwright Jenelle Riley on Azaria . </P> <P> Azaria made his film debut in the direct - to - video release Cool Blue (1990), as Buzz . His first theatrically released feature film appearance came the same year in Pretty Woman, as a police detective . His next major film role was as television producer Albert Freedman in the 1994 film Quiz Show, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . In 1996, Azaria played gay Guatemalan housekeeper Agador Spartacus in the film The Birdcage . For the role, which Azaria considers to be his "big break", he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, and critically branded "the most hilarious performance in the film," by Alison Macor of The Austin Chronicle, while Empire wrote that he "(stole) the show ." For the role he used a Guatemalan accent, and made himself sound as effeminate as possible . He had chosen two possible voices, an effeminate one and a tougher one . After advice from a drag queen, he chose the effeminate voice . Three weeks into production, he realized he sounded exactly like his grandmother, which aided his performance . Agador was originally going to be a single scene part, with the larger role of the housekeeper being played by David Alan Grier . With the producers fearing the racial connotations of a black actor in such a part, Azaria inherited the full role . </P>

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