Early Years
Platt was born in New York City, the son of Helen (née Choate) and architect Geoffrey Platt. His maternal great-grandfather was diplomat and lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate. Platt entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1959. Prior to that, he was a research assistant at the Washington Center for Foreign Policy Research. From 1959 to 1961, he served as vice consul in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where his son, the actor Oliver Platt was born. His older son is Adam Platt, New York Magazine restaurant critic, and his younger son is Nicholas Platt, Jr. His wife is Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad, granddaughter of Arthur Scott Burden and the Hon. Cynthia Burke Roche.
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