Craig Bierko
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The ThumbScore for Craig Bierko (82.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 7 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Craig's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Craig Philip Bierko (born August 18, 1964) is an American actor.
Bierko was born in Rye Brook, New York, where, for a brief time, his mother Pat was president of The Harrison Players, a local community theatre. 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 Lennix. He graduated in 1986 with a BS in theater arts from the School of Speech.
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 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. Bierko was the original choice for the character of Chandler Bing on the sitcom Friends but turned it down, contrary to the advice of his friends Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria. 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 British show Red Dwarf. He has 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.
Sexiest Broadway Star by People (2000) Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Music Man (nominee, 2000) Drama Desk Award for Outstanding 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) Theatre World Award (winner, 2000) Broadway.com Audience Awards (winner, 2000) 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment "It" List, 2003 Entertainment Weekly Shorty Award for Humor (nominee, 2014)
Born 1964-08-18 in Rye Brook, New York, USA.
On ThumbScore, Craig Bierko appears in 7 films with an average audience score of 82.0%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.
