Eric Stonestreet
Eric Stonestreet (born September 9, 1971 in Kansas City , Kansas ) is an American actor .
biography
Stonestreet graduated from Kansas State University in 1996 , whereupon he played at an improvisational theater in Chicago for two years before moving to Los Angeles to advance his acting career.
In addition to smaller film appearances, for example in 2000 in Almost Famous or in 2005 in Die Insel , Stonestreet was mainly seen in US television series. In the early years he played episode roles in Dharma & Greg , Malcolm in the Middle , Party of Five , Chaos City and Emergency Room . The investigative series CSI: Vegas hired him as a continuous role for 13 episodes from 2001 to 2005. Other episode roles, such as Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile , Bones - The Bone Hunter , American Dad , Navy CIS or Monk followed, before he was cast as part of the main cast for the ABC series Modern Family . For the role of homosexual adoptive father Cameron Tucker , he was nominated for the Television Critics Association Award in 2010 and received the Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 and 2012 in the category of supporting actor in a comedy series . In 2011, 2012 and 2013, Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actor followed.
Although he embodies a homosexual man in his most famous role, Stonestreet is straight. His German dubbing voice in Modern Family is Robert Louis Griesbach .
Stonestreet is also featured in the 2014 music video for Weird Al Yankovics Tacky , a parody of Pharrell Williams Happy .
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 2000: Almost Famous - Almost Famous (Almost Famous)
- 2003: FAT
- 2003: Girls Will Be Girls
- 2003: Street of Pain (short film)
- 2004: straight jacket
- 2004: Knuckle Sandwich
- 2005: Saddam 17th
- 2005: The Island (The Iceland)
- 2006: 13 Graves (TV movie)
- 2007: American Breakdown - Live and Learn (Stories USA)
- 2008: Ninja Cheerleaders
- 2008: American Crude
- 2009: This Might Hurt (TV movie)
- 2010: Father vs. Sun
- 2011: Bad Teacher
- 2013: Fully Ripped Off (Identity Thief)
- 2014: The Loft
- 2016: Pets ( The Secret Life of Pets , voice)
- 2016: In good faith ( Confirmation , TV film)
- 2019: Pets 2 ( The Secret Life of Pets 2 , voice)
TV Shows
- 1999: Dharma & Greg (an episode)
- 2000: I've Got a Secret
- 2000: Malcolm in the Middle ( Malcolm in the Middle , an episode)
- 2000: Party of Five (one episode)
- 2000: Chaos City ( Spin City , an episode)
- 2000: Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme ( ER , an episode)
- 2001: The West Wing ( The West Wing , an episode)
- 2001-2005: CSI: Vegas (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , 13 episodes)
- 2002: Greg the Bunny (an episode)
- 2002: Providence (an episode)
- 2005: Close to Home (one episode)
- 2007: Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with profile ( Crossing Jordan , one episode)
- 2007: Bones ( Bones , 2 episodes)
- 2007: On the Lot (2 episodes)
- 2007: American Dad ( American Dad ! , an episode, voice)
- 2008: The Mentalist (an episode)
- 2008: Pushing Daisies (an episode)
- 2008: Navy CIS ( NCIS , an episode)
- 2009: Monk (one episode)
- 2009: Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price ( Nip / Tuck , one episode)
- 2009–2020: Modern Family
- 2011: American Horror Story (an episode)
Web links
- Eric Stonestreet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emma Rosenblum: Conversation: The Regular Guys of 'Modern Family' . New York Magazine. October 11, 2009. Retrieved August 7, 2010.
- ↑ 'Weird Al' Enlists Jack Black, Aisha Tyler for Pharrell Parody 'Tacky' , accessed December 19, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stonestreet, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City , Kansas , United States |