Mike O'Malley
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| Born: | 31 October 1966 Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Occupation: | Actor |
| Spouse: | Lisa O'Malley |
Mike O'Malley (born October 31, 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a New Hampshire-reared actor, most famous for playing himself in the Nickelodeon show GUTS. He previously had a short-lived, self-named sitcom on NBC called the Mike O'Malley Show which he co-starred in with his sister Kerry O'Malley. O'Malley first became known as the host of Nickelodeon game shows Get the Picture, GUTS and Global GUTS. He also starred in the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear.
O'Malley has a recurring role in ESPN commercials in which he plays "The Rick" a rabid Boston sports fan. In real life, O'Malley is a proud member of Red Sox Nation and in May 2006 threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park. In his youth, he worked as a bricklayer.
O’Malley made his big screen debut in Deep Impact, playing Elijah Wood’s astronomy teacher. He followed that up with a supporting role in the John Cusack/Billy Bob Thornton film about air traffic controllers called Pushing Tin. His best known film role is probably that of Oliver, the cocaine-addict, in the Sandra Bullock rehab film 28 Days. In 2005, O'Malley starred in the Heather Locklear/Hilary Duff film The Perfect Man. Though the movie opened to negative reviews, Richard Roeper praised O'Malley as the best part of the film.
O'Malley is also an accomplished playwright. Two of his plays, Three Years from Thirty and Diverting Devotion, have been published and produced Off-Broadway. Searching for Certainty, a third play, was produced in Los Angeles in 2003.
In 2006 Mike made a guest appearance on My Name Is Earl as a police officer with bowling aspirations. Along with Yes, Dear costar Anthony Clark, O'Malley appeared in the Alan Jackson music video "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues".
In the Fall of 2007 Mike will host the new primetime game show Trivial Pursuit based on the board game where a contestant could win up to $1 Million.
[edit] Background
O'Malley is married to Lisa O'Malley and together they have two children, Fiona and Seamus. O'Malley is a 1984 graduate of Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, New Hampshire, and a 1988 graduate from the University of New Hampshire where he studied theatre. O'Malley returned to his alma mater in 2006 to deliver the commencement address to the University's 136th graduating class, and also received an honorary doctorate. Kerry, his younger New Hampshire-born sister, is also an actress and a Broadway veteran; she received critical attention for her role in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and recently appeared in several episodes of Showtime's "Brotherhood."
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