Английская Википедия:Ben Koldyke

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Benjamin Koldyke (born March 27, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother (2009–2010), Lee Standish in Work It (2012), and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street (2014–2016).

Early life and education

Koldyke was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Kenilworth. His father, Martin J. "Mike" Koldyke, is a former investment banker who founded Frontenac Company in Chicago and is a life trustee of Northwestern University; through his mother, Patricia Blunt Koldyke, he is a member of the family that controls Laird Norton Company, an investment company with roots in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest.

After graduating from high school, he did a post-graduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and was a quarterback for the football team.

Career

Originally a high school English teacher and football coach in Chicago, Koldyke's acting career received a jump start after a chance encounter with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator-star, Rob McElhenney. Regulars at the same Venice cafe, he covered Rob's tab with a note that said he "thought his show was fantastic," and this exchange led to Koldyke's first TV pilot, Boldly Going Nowhere for Fox, a few years later.

After Boldly was not picked up, Koldyke went on to recur as Dale Tomasson in the HBO series Big Love and as Don Frank in How I Met Your Mother for CBS.

In 2012, Koldyke starred as the lead character in the short-lived ABC comedy series Work It and later guest starred in HBO's The Newsroom. 2013 saw him star in another ABC sitcom, Back in the Game, opposite James Caan and Maggie Lawson. He had a significant arc on Showtime's Masters of Sex as teacher and football coach Paul Edley, and played male chauvinist Brent throughout the final season of The Good Place. In 2021 he had a recurring role on season 1 of Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls.

Koldyke was seen on the big screen in 2016 in a supporting role for Disney's The Finest Hours alongside Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Eric Bana, and Ben Foster.

Personal life

On August 8, 2015, Koldyke married actress Maggie Lawson in a ceremony at his family's ranch in Las Vegas, New Mexico. In early 2017, Lawson filed for divorce from Koldyke.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	The Next Best Thing	Kelly's Boyfriend
2000	Thirteen Days	RF-8 Pilot
2001	Red Zone	Dutch Van Roble	Also writer and director
2002	Osama Bin Laden: Behind the Madness		Writer and director
2003	Say I Do	Ben
2003	Stuck on You	Officer Tommy Johnson
2008	Jedi Gym	Master Flynn	Short film, also writer and director
2016	The Finest Hours	Sam

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	24	LAPD Officer	Episode: "Day 2: 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m."
2009	Boldly Going Nowhere		TV pilot
2009	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Sean	Episode: "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis"
2009	The Big D	Will Dupree	TV pilot
2009	This Little Piggy		TV pilot
2010	Big Love	Dale Tomasson	5 episodes
2009–2010	How I Met Your Mother	Don Frank	6 episodes
2012	Work It	Lee Standish	Series regular, 11 episodes
2013	The Newsroom	Cyrus West	Episode: "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers"
2013	Back in the Game	Dick Slingbaugh	Series regular
2014-2016	Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street	Greg Gibbon	Recurring
2015	Mr. Robinson	Jimmy	Series regular
2015	Masters of Sex	Paul Edley	Recurring
2017	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Dave	Episode: "The Accidental Text on Purpose"
2018	Silicon Valley	Ben	Episode: "Chief Operating Officer"
2019	The Good Place	Brent Norwalk	Recurring (season 4)
2021	Rutherford Falls	Dudley 'Duz' Rutherford	Recurring

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