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Anthony Russell Hale (born September 30, 1970)[1] is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series Arrested Development as Buster Bluth. Hale played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy Veep from 2012 until its conclusion in 2019, for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Tony Hale
Hale in 2019
Born	Anthony Russell Hale (1970-09-30) September 30, 1970 (age 52) West Point, New York, U.S.
Education	Samford University (BA) Regent University (MA)
Occupation	Actor comedian
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Martel Thompson ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	1
Awards	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (2013, 2015)

Hale has appeared in feature films including The Informant! (2009), In My Sleep (2010), The Heat (2013), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015) and Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021). He has provided voice-work for The Tale of Despereaux (2008), The Angry Birds Movie (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Toy Story 4 (both 2019) as Forky, a role he reprised in Forky Asks a Question. Hale also created and voiced Archibald in Netflix and Peacock's original series Archibald's Next Big Thing. Hale also voiced Vaneé from Lego Star Wars: Terrifying Tales. He plays a dual role in the Disney+ original The Mysterious Benedict Society (2021).

Early life

Hale was born in West Point, New York. His mother, Rita (née Garnett), worked as a staff assistant to State Representative Kathy Ashe, and his father, Mike Hale, taught nuclear and atomic physics and served in the military.[2] Hale grew up in Tallahassee, Florida where he attended the Young Actors Theatre and participated in numerous theatrical and musical productions.[3] He graduated from Leon High School in 1988.[4] He graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama with a journalism degree in 1992. He became a member of Sigma Chi while at the university.[5][6] He completed graduate studies in 1995 from the School of Communication and the Arts of Regent University in Virginia.[6][7] After graduating he lived in New York City for eight years.[6] While in New York, Hale helped found The Haven, an artistically minded community of Christians that meets weekly.[8] He also studied acting at The Barrow Group,[9] as well as at the William Esper Studio[10] in the Professional Actor Training Program.

Career

Hale first obtained his Screen Actors Guild card when he appeared in a commercial for MCI Inc., though it never aired.[11] He made minor guest appearances in TV shows such as Dawson's Creek, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City. From 2003 to 2006, and also in 2013, 2018, and 2019, Hale found success in television cast as Buster Bluth, the hapless, neurotic son with "mother issues" on Arrested Development. Hale also appeared in a season ten episode of MADtv in a parody of COPS, where two British robbers try to stop a domestic dispute among the royal family.

In March 2006, Hale was cast in a co-starring role as the video store owner Simon in the NBC sitcom Andy Barker P.I., starring Andy Richter and co-created by Conan O'Brien.[12] He appeared in minor roles in Stranger Than Fiction and Because I Said So. He was the voice of Furlough in The Tale of Despereaux, an animated children's film released in 2008.[13] Hale had a recurring role as Emmett on Chuck, beginning in October 2008 and ending in January 2010. His departure made room for his starring role on the NBC web series Ctrl, which premiered on July 13, 2009. He appeared in a cameo in the second episode of the first season of Showtime's dramedy United States of Tara, as English teacher Oral Gershenoff. He joined the cast of Numbers in 2009, in the recurring role of Professor Russell Lazlo.

In 2012, Hale starred in the drama comedy Not That Funny. He also guest-starred on NBC's long-running show Law & Order: SVU as Rick Simms, a teacher who is fired from his job after being accused of inappropriate behavior with a student.[14]

In 2012, Hale was cast in the HBO comedy Veep as Gary Walsh, the personal assistant to Vice President-turned-President Selina Meyer (portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus).[15] On September 22, 2013, Hale won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the show's second season. This was his first major award.[16] He earned his second nomination in 2014, but lost the award to Ty Burrell. However Hale won his second Primetime Emmy Award with his third nomination in 2015, in the same ceremony where Veep won its first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

In 2017, Hale hosted the 9th Annual Shorty Awards at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. In 2018, Hale played the role of Jerome Squalor on the second season of the Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events, appearing in episodes adapting The Ersatz Elevator and The Penultimate Peril. He appeared in two more episodes of the series.[17]

Personal life

Hale married Emmy Award-winning makeup artist Martel Thompson on May 24, 2003. They have a daughter.[18] Hale and his wife are practicing Christians.[19]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Raging Hormones	Wiseguy Driver
2003	My Blind Brother	Bill
2004	Stateside	Donny
2005	Fortunes	Phil Yount
2006	Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector	Jack Dabbs
2006	RV	Frank
2006	Stranger Than Fiction	Dave
2006	The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell	Remington Biographer
2006	Unaccompanied Minors	Alan Davies
2006	The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah	Homeowner with demons
2007	Because I Said So	Stuart
2007	Dante's Inferno	Pope Nicholas III (voice)
2007	Flatland: The Movie	King of Pointland (voice)
2007	Cruel Logic	Dr. Pomerenke
2008	My Suicide	Social worker
2008	The Tale of Despereaux	Furlough (voice)
2008	The Year of Getting to Know Us	Nickie
2009	The Answer Man	Mailman
2009	The Informant!	James Epstein
2009	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard	Wade
2009	The Ballad of G.I. Joe	Dr. Mindbender	Short
2009	Weathered	Stanway Steini	Short
2010	Happythankyoumoreplease	Sam #2
2010	In My Sleep	Ben
2011	Sironia	Chad
2011	Wuss	Mr. Crowder
2011	Perfect	Gene	Short
2012	First in Fight	Wilbur Wright	Short film
2012	Not That Funny	Stefan Lane
2013	The Heat	The John
2013	The Kings of Summer	Bus Passenger
2013	The Nobodies	Postal Boss	Short film
2015	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip	Air Marshal James Suggs
2015	American Ultra	Agent Petey Douglas
2015	April and the Extraordinary World	Darwin (voice)
2016	Brave New Jersey	Clark Hill
2016	Dominion	Brinnan
2016	Yoga Hosers	Bob Collette
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Ross, Mime, Cyrus (voices)
2017	And Then I Go	Mr. Mosley
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Arrogant JPL Engineer
2018	The 15:17 to Paris	Coach Murray
2018	Love, Simon	Vice Principal Worth
2018	Sadie	Bradley
2018	Batman Ninja	The Joker (voice)
2019	To the Stars	Gerald Richmond
2019	Toy Story 4	Forky (voice)
2019	The Angry Birds Movie 2	Mime (voice)
2020	Eat Wheaties!	Sid Straw
2020	Poupelle of Chimney Town	Poupelle (voice)	English dub
2020	Nine Days	Alexander
2021	Arlo the Alligator Boy	Teeny Tiny Tony (voice)
2021	Clifford the Big Red Dog	Zac Tieran
2021	Being the Ricardos	Jess Oppenheimer
2022	Hocus Pocus 2	Jefry Traske & Reverend Traske	[20]
2023	Untitled Sandra Oh and Awkwafina comedy film		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Ghost Stories	Billy Thorpe	Episode: "Personal Demons"
1998	Legacy	Hyram	Episode: "The Gift"
2000	The $treet	Trainee	Episode: "Closet Cases"
2001	Sex and the City	Tiger	Episode: "The Real Me"
2001	The Sopranos	RN / OCN Collins	Episode: "Second Opinion"
2001	Dawson's Creek	Doctor Bronin	Episode: "A Winter's Tale"
2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019	Arrested Development	Byron "Buster" Bluth	Main role, 74 episodes
2005	Stacked	Brent Lamble	Episode: "Beat the Candidate"
2007	Big Day	David	Episode: "Last Chance to Marry Jane"
2007	Andy Barker P.I.	Simon
2008–2010	Chuck	Emmett Milbarge	14 episodes
2008–2009	ER	Norman	2 episodes
2008	Samantha Who?	Dr. Andy Adams	Episode: "The Pill"
2009	United States of Tara	Oral Gershenoff	Episode: "Aftermath"
2009	Rules of Engagement	Steve	Episode: "May Divorce Be With You"
2009	CTRL	Stuart	Web series
2009–2010	Numbers	Russell Lazlo	2 episodes
2010	The Life and Times of Tim	Vince (voice)	Episode: "Tim's Beard"
2010	Community	Professor Marion Holly	Episode: "Beginner Pottery"
2010	Law & Order	Phillip Shoemaker	Episode: "Brazil"
2010	Justified	David Mortimer	Episode: "The Collection"
2010	Medium	Gil Bureli	Episode: "The Match Game"
2011	Human Target	Harry	2 episodes
2011	Royal Pains	Andy	Episode: "Ta Da For"
2011	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Dr. Karl	Episode: "Dolphinnegan's Wake"
2011	Good Vibes	Wadska (voice)	12 episodes
2011	Psych	Jerry Kincaid	Episode: "Neil Simons Lover's Retreat"
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Rick Simms[14]	Episode: "Learning Curve"
2012	Up All Night	Dr. Welborn	Episode: "Ma'am'd"
2012–2019	Veep	Gary Walsh	Main role
2013	The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange	Rutabaga / Caesar (voice)	2 episodes
2013	Doc McStuffins	Tobias The Elf (voice)	Episode: "A Very McStuffins Christmas"
2013–2016	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself / King of Cards	2 episodes
2013–2016	Sanjay and Craig	Mr. Noodman	Voice role
2013–2018	Drunk History	Various	6 episodes
2014	About a Boy	Hugh Womple	Episode: "About a Boy's Dad"
2014	The Birthday Boys	Reginaldo Alphonsy	Episode: "Cerf's Folly"
2015	Jake and the Never Land Pirates	Doctor Undergear (voice)	4 episodes
2015	Childrens Hospital	Brad Lendricks	Episode: "Me, Owen"
2016	VeggieTales in the House	Various voices	Episode: "Yambot"
2017	Animals.	Matthew (voice)	Episode: "Worms Birds Possums"
2017	Rick and Morty	Death Stalker Eli (voice)	Episode: "Rickmancing the Stone"
2017	Difficult People	Himself	Episode: "The Silkwood"
2017	Pickle and Peanut	Funwagon	Episode: "Funwagon"
2018–2019	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Jerome Squalor	4 episodes
2018	Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Dr. Alex Noe (voice)	Episode: "Todd Scouts"
2018	Mickey and the Roadster Racers	Dr. Victor Von Goose (voice)	Episode: "Super-Charged"
2019	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	The Pie King (voice)	Episode: "Escape from the Pie Folk"
2019	Spirit Riding Free	Bellhop (voice)	Episode: "Lucky and the New Frontier Part 1"
2019–2022	Amphibia	Apothecary Gary, Floyd (voice)	3 episodes
2019	Ask the StoryBots	The Recycling Plant Owner	Episode: "Why Do We Have To Recycle?"
2019–present	Archibald's Next Big Thing	Archibald (voice)	Also creator and executive producer
2019–2020	Forky Asks a Question	Forky (voice)	Main role
2019–present	Harley Quinn[21]	Doctor Psycho, Felix Faust, Man, Hench, Lead Goon, Snow Rat (voices)
2019	RuPaul's Drag Race	Himself (Snatch Game contestant, guest judge)	Episode: "Snatch Game at Sea"
2020	When the Streetlights Go On	Mr. Boque	4 episodes
2020	Crossing Swords	Blarney (voice)	9 episodes
2020	The Twilight Zone	Tom	Episode: "Downtime"
2020	Game On!	Himself (contestant)	Episode: "Celebrity Guests: Tony Hale and Bobby Moynihan"
2020	Woke	Butter (voice)	3 episodes
2020	The George Lucas Talk Show	Himself	Episode: "Streamers of the Lost Art (of Conversation)"
2021–present	Birdgirl	Paul "The Feels" (voice)	Main role
2021–present	Rugrats[22]	Chas Finster (voice)	Main role
2021–present	HouseBroken	Diablo / Max (voice)
2021-present	The Mysterious Benedict Society	Nicholas Benedict / L.D. Curtain	Main roles
2021	I Heart Arlo	Teeny Tiny Tony (voice)	Main role
2021	LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales	Vaneé (voice)
2022	The Legend of Vox Machina	Sir Fince (voice)	2 episodes[23]
2022	Password (American game show)	Himself	Tony Hale's team vs Jimmy Fallon's team episode
2022	Wolfboy and the Everything Factory	Water Ancient	Episode: We Search for Balance

Music videos

Year	Artist	Song
2007	Switchfoot	"Awakening"
2008	Fall Out Boy	"Beat It"
2014	Lady A	"Bartender"
2020	David Cross featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic	"Eat It"[24]

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Veep	Won	[25]
2014			Nominated
2015			Won
2016			Nominated
2017			Nominated
2019			Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2004	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Arrested Development	Nominated	[26]
2005			Nominated	[27]
2013			Nominated	[28]
		Veep	Nominated
2014			Nominated	[29]
2015			Nominated	[30]
2016			Nominated	[31]
2017			Won	[32]

Critics' Choice Television Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2014	Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Veep	Nominated	[33]
2015			Nominated	[34]
2016			Nominated	[35]

Annie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2020	Outstanding Voice Acting in a Feature Production	Toy Story 4	Nominated

San Diego International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Fairbanks Award	Career Achievement	Awarded	[36]

References

External links

• Tony Hale at IMDb
• Tony Hale at Rotten Tomatoes

Interviews

• 2006 Video Interview at About.com
• Interview with Tony Hale at burnsidewriters.com

На других языках

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[de] Tony Hale

Tony Hale (* 30. September 1970 in West Point, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und zweifacher Emmy-Preisträger.

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[es] Tony Hale

Anthony Russell "Tony" Hale (30 de septiembre de 1970) es un actor de comedia estadounidense, más conocido por su papel de "Buster" en la serie Arrested Development. Actualmente representa a Gary Walsh en la comedia Veep, papel por el que ganó dos premios Emmy como mejor actor de reparto, en 2013 y 2015.

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[ru] Хейл, Тони

Э́нтони Расселл «То́ни» Хейл (англ. Anthony Russell "Tony" Hale, род. 30 сентября 1970, Уэст-Пойнт) — американский актёр. Наиболее известен по ролям Бастера Блута в сериале «Замедленное развитие» и Гэри Уолша в сериале «Вице-президент». Двукратный обладатель премии «Эмми».

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