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Craig Philip Bierko (born August 18, 1964) is an American actor and singer.

Craig Bierko
Born	Craig Philip Bierko (1964-08-18) August 18, 1964 (age 58) Rye Brook, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, singer
Years active	1987–present

Early life

Bierko was born in Rye Brook, New York where his mother Pat ran The Harrison Players, a local community theatre.[1]

After graduating Blind Brook High School, Bierko spent his freshman year studying journalism at Boston University’s School of Public Communications. But he spent most of his time across the Charles river doing plays at Harvard. The following year Bierko transferred to Northwestern University to study acting alongside David Schwimmer, Stephen Colbert, George Newbern and Harry Lennox. He graduated in 1986 with a BS in theater arts from the School of Speech.[2][3]

Career

Television and film

Bierko’s film roles include Timothy in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight which he credits for being cast in far more interesting, darkly humorous roles such as[4] Max Baer in Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man opposite Russell Crowe, Tom Ryan in Scary Movie 4 (spoofing Tom Cruise throughout the film) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Thirteenth Floor. In 2000 Bierko made his Broadway debut as Professor Harold Hill in Susan Stroman’s critically acclaimed revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Bierko was the original choice for the character of Chandler Bing on the sitcom Friends but turned it down.[5] He played “the jazz guy” Ray King a love interest for Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in the fourth season of Sex and the City attorney, Jeffrey Coho on season three of the ABC television series Boston Legal, and one of four newly divorced friends on Fox’s short-lived Unhitched. Bierko was cast as Dave Lister in the pilot for the American TV version of the brilliant British show Red Dwarf. He’s appeared twice on TV's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - first as Andy Eckerson, a United States Deputy Marshal who is working with the SVU (and ex-flame Det. Olivia Benson) to recapture an escaped convict.[6] and several years later, a serial rapist.

Bierko appeared for four seasons in the Peabody Award winning series UnREAL as Chet Wilton, the eccentric, drug addicted, womanizing creator of a reality dating show.[7] Recently he appeared on The Blacklist as The Chairman, the coldly sociopathic head of an underground stock market for criminals and will be seen on season two of the hit Netflix show Sex/Life as a superstar literary agent.

Theater roles

Bierko was slated to appear on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of To Be or Not to Be but withdrew from the production August 29, 2008 for creative differences.[8] He starred as Sky Masterson in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls which began performances at the Nederlander Theatre on February 5, 2009, and officially opened on March 1, 2009.[9] It closed on June 14, 2009 after 113 performances.[10] He performed the role of Peter in the acclaimed 2011 New York Philharmonic production of Stephen Sondheim's Company with Neil Patrick Harris, Patti Lupone and Stephen Colbert.

Bierko replaced Bertie Carvel as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical at the Shubert Theatre along with Jill Paice as Miss Honey on September 3, 2013 but could not start performances until September 17 following a neck and shoulder injury he suffered rehearsing a gymnastic flip.[11] Despite the injury Bierko continued rehearsing, eventually performing the role for about a month before the shoulder injury - along with a foot injury sustained during performance - made it impractical to continue.[12]

In 2022, Conor McPherson cast Bierko as Mr. Burke in his Girl from the North Country (featuring music by Bob Dylan) opposite Luba Mason and Mare Winningham The Tony Award winning limited engagement played its final performance June 19, 2022.[13]

Filmography and stage work

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Love Note	Craig Johnson	Video
1991	Victimless Crimes	Terry Sullivan
1996	The Long Kiss Goodnight	Timothy
1996	Johns	Christmas Radio Preacher
1997	'Til There Was You	Jon Hass
1998	Sour Grapes	Richie Maxwell
1998	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Lacerda
1999	The Suburbans	Mitch
1999	The Thirteenth Floor	Douglas Hall, John Ferguson, David
2000	The Cherry Picker		Short film
2001	Kate & Leopold	Actor in Advertisement	Uncredited
2002	I'm with Lucy	Peter
2003	Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star	George Finney
2004	Hair High	Sarge (voice)
2005	Cinderella Man	Max Baer
2006	Scary Movie 4	Tom Ryan
2006	Danika	Randy Merrick
2006	For Your Consideration	Talk Show Host
2007	Meet Bill	Sergeant	Uncredited
2008	Superhero Movie	Wolverine	Deleted scenes
2008	A Bad Situation	Richard	Video
2011	Company	Peter	Filmed production
2011	The Change-Up	Valtan
2011	Bad Seed	Bert
2012	The Three Stooges	Mac Mioski
2013	Louder Than Words	Eddie Stolzenberg
2013	If I Had Wings	Geoff Taylor
2016	Equity	Benji Akers
2016	Catfight	The Talk Show Host
2019	Fair Market Value	Lucas
2021	Scenes from an Empty Church	The Sinner
2021	Before I Go	Walt

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Roomies	Dale	Episode: "The Ditch"
1987	Our House	Douglas	Episode: "The Children's Crusade"
1987	ABC Afterschool Specials	Carl Warner	Episode: "The Day My Kid Went Punk"
1988	Amen	Bellman	Episode: "A Sight Case of Murder (2)"
1988	Eisenhower and Lutz	Waiter	Episode: "Don't Change a Hair for Me"
1989	The Young and the Restless	Greg
1989	Newhart	Dirk	2 episodes
1989	Guns of Paradise	Johnny Ryan	2 episodes
1990	Sydney	Matt Keating	13 episodes
1990	Wings	Matt Sargent	Episode: "The Puppet Master"
1990	Murphy Brown	Alex	Episode: "Rootless People"
1991	Empty Nest	Fred	Episode: "The Man That Got Away"
1991	Baby Talk	Bill Noonan	Episode: "A Star Is Born"
1992	The Powers That Be	Joe Bowman	4 episodes
1992	Red Dwarf	Dave Lister	Unaired television pilot
1993	Bodies of Evidence	Thomas Wilkes	Episode: "Trial by Fire"
1993	Danielle Steel's Star	Spencer Hill	Television film
1994–1995	Madman of the People	B.J. Cooper	16 episodes
1995	Pride & Joy	Greg Sherman	6 episodes
1998	Mad About You	Gardner Mulloy	Episode: "Weekend in L.A."
2000	Ally McBeal	Dennis Martin	Episode: "In Search of Pygmies"
2001	Sex and the City	Ray King	2 episodes
2002	The Court	Harlan Brandt
2003	Hench at Home	Terry Hench	Television film
2003, 2016	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Deputy Marshal Andy Eckerson, Bobby D'Amico	2 episodes
2005	Untitled David Diamond/David Weissman Project	Dylan	Television film
2006	The Great Malones		Episode: "Pilot"
2006–2007	Boston Legal	Jeffrey Coho	14 episodes
2007	Nip/Tuck	Bob Easton	Episode: "Carly Summers"
2008	Unhitched	Jack "Gator" Gately	6 episodes
2009	Head Case		Episode: "The Big Book"
2010	The Good Wife	Duke Roscoe	Episode: "Infamy"
2010	Damages	Terry Brooke	4 episodes
2010	The League	Craig O'Connor	Episode: "Bro-Lo El Cuñado"
2010–2011	The Temp Life	Eddie Chiapetta	3 episodes
2011	Suite 7	Alan	Episode: "Superman"
2011–2012	Leap Year	Andy Corvell	5 episodes
2011	Necessary Roughness	Ray Santino	2 episodes
2011	Easy to Assemble	Jebedehia Bateman	8 episodes
2011	The Mentalist	Doc Dugan	Episode: "The Redshirt"
2012	6 passi nel giallo	Harry Chase	Episode: "Visions of Murder"
2012, 2014	Hot in Cleveland	Donald	2 episodes
2012	Elementary	Jim Fowkes	Episode: "The Rat Race"
2013	Body of Proof	Dr. Derrick Malcolm	Episode: "Committed"
2013–2014	The Michael J. Fox Show	Bill	2 episodes
2013	Unforgettable	Marco Lantini	Episode: "A Moveable Feast"
2015–2018	UnREAL	Chet Wilton	38 episodes
2017	Kevin Can Wait	Peter	Episode: "The Back Out"
2017	Tin Star	Dermot O'Hanrahan	Episode: "Jack"
2018	Blue Bloods	Ray Cross	Episode: "Meet the New Boss"
2022	The Blacklist	The Chairman	Episode: "The Chairman (No. 171)"
2022	Sex/Life	Mick

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	The Music Man	Harold Hill	Theatre World Award Nominee: Tony Award Nominee: Drama Desk Award
2001	Thou Shalt Not	Laurent LeClaire
2004	Modern Orthodox	Ben Jacobson
2009	Guys and Dolls	Sky Masterson
2011	Company	Peter
2013	Matilda the Musical	Agatha Trunchbull
2020	Girl from the North Country	Mr. Burke

Awards and recognition

• Shorty Award for Humor (Nominee) (2014)
• 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment "It" List, 2003 Entertainment Weekly
• Sexiest Broadway Star - People (2000)
• Theatre World Award (Winner) (2000)
• Broadway.com Audience Awards (Winner) (2000)
• Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Music Man (Nominee) (2000)
• Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Music Man (Nominee) (2000)
• Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Music Man (Nominee) (2000)

References

External links

• Craig Bierko on Twitter
• Craig Bierko at IMDb
• Craig Bierko at the Internet Broadway Database
• Craig Bierko at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Craig Bierko at AllMovie

На других языках

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[de] Craig Bierko

Craig Bierko (* 18. August 1964 in Rye Brook, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Craig Bierko

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[es] Craig Bierko

Craig Philip Bierko (Rye Brook, Nueva York, 18 de agosto de 1964) es un actor de cine, teatro y televisión estadounidense. Es conocido por interpretar el papel de Tom Ryan en la película Scary Movie 4 de 2006, y, también, por interpretar al boxeador Max Baer en la película Cinderella Man, de 2005.

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[ru] Бирко, Крейг

Крейг Филип Бирко (англ. Craig Philip Bierko, род. 18 августа 1964) — американский актёр

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