John Christopher McGinley (born August 3, 1959) is an American actor.
He is most notable for his roles as Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell
in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O'Neill in
Oliver Stone's Platoon, Marv in Stone's Wall Street, and FBI agent Ben
Harp in Point Break. He has written and produced for television and
film. Apart from acting, McGinley is an author, a board member and
international spokesman for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, and a
spokesman for the National Down Syndrome Society.McGinley, who is one
of five children, was born in the Greenwich Village section of New
York City, the son of a schoolteacher and a stockbroker. His paternal
great-grandfather was from Donegal, Ireland. McGinley was raised in
Millburn, New Jersey, and attended Millburn High School, where he
played wide receiver for the school's football team. He studied acting
at Syracuse University, and later at New York University's Graduate
Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1984.
Upon completing his education, McGinley did a variety of different
work, including Off Broadway and Broadway productions, and a two-year
stint on the soap opera Another World.McGinley has had a prolific
career, primarily as a supporting character actor. He was noticed by a
casting scout while working as John Turturro's understudy in John
Patrick Shanley's 1984 production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,
which led to a successful audition for the role of Sergeant Red
O'Neill in the Oscar-winning Platoon (1986). McGinley had been cast in
his first film role in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty earlier in 1986. That
was followed the next year with Wall Street (1987), and again the next
with Talk Radio (1988). He was featured in a 1980s Subaru commercial.
He appeared in the "Celebrity Challenge" version of American
Gladiators, losing to Dean Cain. McGinley wrote the script for, and
co-starred in, the 1990 film Suffering Bastards.
He is most notable for his roles as Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell
in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O'Neill in
Oliver Stone's Platoon, Marv in Stone's Wall Street, and FBI agent Ben
Harp in Point Break. He has written and produced for television and
film. Apart from acting, McGinley is an author, a board member and
international spokesman for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, and a
spokesman for the National Down Syndrome Society.McGinley, who is one
of five children, was born in the Greenwich Village section of New
York City, the son of a schoolteacher and a stockbroker. His paternal
great-grandfather was from Donegal, Ireland. McGinley was raised in
Millburn, New Jersey, and attended Millburn High School, where he
played wide receiver for the school's football team. He studied acting
at Syracuse University, and later at New York University's Graduate
Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1984.
Upon completing his education, McGinley did a variety of different
work, including Off Broadway and Broadway productions, and a two-year
stint on the soap opera Another World.McGinley has had a prolific
career, primarily as a supporting character actor. He was noticed by a
casting scout while working as John Turturro's understudy in John
Patrick Shanley's 1984 production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,
which led to a successful audition for the role of Sergeant Red
O'Neill in the Oscar-winning Platoon (1986). McGinley had been cast in
his first film role in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty earlier in 1986. That
was followed the next year with Wall Street (1987), and again the next
with Talk Radio (1988). He was featured in a 1980s Subaru commercial.
He appeared in the "Celebrity Challenge" version of American
Gladiators, losing to Dean Cain. McGinley wrote the script for, and
co-starred in, the 1990 film Suffering Bastards.
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