John C. McGinley Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

John C. McGinley Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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.
John C. McGinley Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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