Hey, It's That Guy (or Gal)!
by itsthecolleenlife | created - 21 Apr 2014 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicI may not remember their name, but I always remember their face!
1. Jesse Plemons
Actor | Game Night
Jesse Lon Plemons is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a career breakthrough with his major role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006-2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad...
the lovable slacker
2. David Koechner
Actor | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Actor, writer and producer David Michael Koechner was born in Tipton, Missouri, to Margaret Ann (Downey) and Cecil Stephen Koechner, who ran a turkey coop manufacturing business. He is of German, Irish, and English ancestry. An alumnus of Chicago's Second City Theater, Koechner got his first break ...
the goofy vaguely-Southern guy
3. Zach Grenier
Actor | Devs
Zach Grenier was born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Zach is an actor, known for Devs (2020), Fight Club (1999) and Ray Donovan (2013).
usually plays a cop or other authority figure
4. Ron Perlman
Actor | Hand of God
Ron Perlman is a classically-trained actor who has appeared in countless stage plays, feature films and television productions.
Ronald N. Perlman was born April 13, 1950 in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. His mother, Dorothy (Rosen), is retired from the City Clerk's Office. His father, ...
good for voiceovers and gruff-looking dudes
5. Mary Lynn Rajskub
Actress | 24
Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress, comedienne and singer who is best known as a co-star of Kiefer Sutherland on the popular television series 24 (2001).
Born June 22, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan, Rajskub comes from a family of Irish, Czech, and Polish ancestry. In 1989 she graduated from ...
nice for a good deadpan "blah" sorta lady
6. J.K. Simmons
Actor | Whiplash
J.K. Simmons is an American actor.
He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).
He had ...
usually plays a hard-ass
7. Peter Sarsgaard
Actor | Shattered Glass
Boyish-looking Peter Sarsgaard was born on March 7, 1971, at Scott Air Force Base, in Bellville, Illinois, to Judy Lea (Reinhardt) and John Dale Sarsgaard, an engineer who worked for the Air Force and later Monsanto and IBM. He is a graduate of St. Louis' Washington University, where he majored in ...
probably someone's slacker brother-in-law
8. William Fichtner
Actor | Crash
A small-town guy with a big heart, William Fichtner has been captivating the hearts of Western New Yorkers for decades. Bill was born in 1956 on Long Island, New York, to Patricia A. (Steitz) and William E. Fichtner. He is of German, Irish, and English descent.
Fichtner was raised in Cheektowaga, ...
good for a Willem Dafoe/Kevin Bacon lookalike
9. Craig Robinson
Actor | This Is the End
Craig Robinson is an African-American actor, singer, musician and comedian who is known for portraying Darryl Philbin from The Office, LeVar Brown from The Cleveland Show, Doug Judy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cookie from Shrek Forever After, himself from This Is The End, and Nick Webber-Agnew from ...
usually plays the token black sidekick/friend
10. Andrew Wilson
Actor | Whip It
Andrew Wilson was born on August 22, 1964 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Whip It (2009), Time Trap (2017) and Idiocracy (2006).
usually plays some goof-off
11. Jean Reno
Actor | Léon
Jean Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents (from Andalucía) who moved to North Africa to seek work. His father was a linotypist. Reno settled in France at 17. He began studying drama and has credits in French television and theater as well as films. ...
usually plays Some French Guy
12. Michael Weston
Actor | Pathology
Michael Weston was born on October 25, 1973 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Pathology (2008), State of Play (2009) and Garden State (2004). He has been married to Priscilla Ahn since June 2010.
I think he dated Elliot on Scrubs. And he was in Garden State. And he played a junkie on Elementary.
13. Brandon Moynihan
Actor | The Protector
Brandon Moynihan is known for The Protector (2024), Saucy Flyer U.F.O. P.I. (2013) and The Summerwood Series.
He's in like, every other sketch comedy video on the internet.
14. Brian Huskey
Actor | Veep
Brian Huskey was born on September 8, 1968 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Veep (2012), Another Period (2013) and Bob's Burgers (2011).
I've probably confused him with Brandon Moynihan.
15. Ray Szmanda
Actor | The Alpha Incident
Ray Szmanda was born on June 22, 1926 in Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Alpha Incident (1978). He was married to Maxine Orgeman. He died on May 6, 2018 in Wisconsin, USA.
the Menards guy
16. Wallace Shawn
Actor | My Dinner with Andre
American character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, delightfully mischievously gnomish faces made for entertaining. Though he got out of the acting starting gate rather late, he quickly excelled film and TV while managing to turn himself into comedy egghead or loser types. ...
17. Margo Martindale
Actress | August: Osage County
Margo Martindale was born July 18, 1951 in Jacksonville, Texas, to Margaret (Pruitt) and William Everett Martindale, a lumber company owner and dog handler. She is the youngest of three children, and the only daughter. Margo attended Lon Marris College, and later transferred to University of ...
IT'S CHARACTER ACTRESS MARGO MARTINDALE!
18. Chris Elliott
Actor | Groundhog Day
Christopher Nash Elliott is an American actor, comedian and writer. He appeared in comedic sketches on Late Night with David Letterman (1982-1988), created and starred in the comedy series Get a Life (1990-1992) on Fox, and wrote and starred in the film Cabin Boy (1994). His writing has won four ...
19. Fred Melamed
Actor | A Serious Man
Revered character actor Fred Melamed was born in New York City. His birth-parents were unmarried; an American actress and British psychoanalyst. He was adopted as an infant by Manhattanites Lou and Syma Melamed (nee Krichefsky). His adoptive father was an early television producer, having ...
20. Diedrich Bader
Actor | Office Space
Diedrich Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, but moved to Paris, France, with his family at age two. While in the "City of Light" he developed an appreciation for movie legends like Fred Astaire and Charles Chaplin. So, when a fragile "Chaplin" movie reel burned in the theater's projector, ...
21. Ana Gasteyer
Actress | Mean Girls
Ana Kristina Gasteyer was born on May 4, 1967 to Marian Roumell-Gasteyer and Phil Gasteyer. Gasteyer began her career at Northwestern University; she initially enrolled as a voice major, but later switched to theater studies when she started to get involved with the campus' improv comedy group. She...
22. Richard Kind
Actor | Argo
Richard Kind, a Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee for the Broadway hit The Big Knife, is an accomplished stage, screen and television actor who continues to redefine the term character actor. Kind is starring as Sam Meyers in the Amazon Original Series Red Oaks (2014). He appeared in the ...
23. Jim Rash
Actor | The Way Way Back
Jim Rash was born on July 15, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Way Way Back (2013), Community (2009) and The Descendants (2011).
24. David Hewlett
Actor | Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
David Hewlett is an actor and life-long learning advocate with a passion for assistive technologies. Inspired by his childhood fear and fascination with Doctor Who, he wanted to become a genius Time Lord...reality led him to acting. David is the husband of the brilliant and beautiful, award winning...
vaguely looks like Quentin Tarantino
25. Eric Wolfgang Nelson
Actor | No Frog Eyes Shine
Eric Wolfgang Nelson is known for No Frog Eyes Shine, The B-Girl (2016) and The Lion Shadows (2011).
always presen☝️ting to the emergency room
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