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Gary Michael Cole was born on the 20th September 1956, in Park Ridge, Illinois USA, and is an Emmy-nominated actor and voice artist, perhaps best known for his roles in such movies as “In the Line of Fire” (1993), “Office Space” (1999), “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (2006), and “Pineapple Express” (2008). Cole’s career started in 1983.

Have you ever wondered how rich Gary Cole is, as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Cole’s net worth is as high as $5 million, an amount earned through his successful acting career. In addition to being a popular actor in movies, Cole has also played in numerous TV series, which have improved his wealth too.

Gary Cole is a son of a school administrative assistant father, and a director of finance mother, and grew up in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, where he went to Rolling Meadows High School, and made his acting debut as Snoopy in school’s production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”. After his matriculation, Cole studied theatre at Illinois State University, with fellow future actors John Malkovich and Laurie Metcalf.

His professional career began in 1983 in the Golden Globe-nominated TV movie “Heart of Steel”, and Cole in the next couple of years appeared in several series and TV movies such as “Fatal Vision”, “American Playhouse”, “The Twilight Zone”  and “Vital Signs”. Cole ended the ‘80s with roles in David Seltzer’s “Lucas”  starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, and Winona Ryder, “Miami Vice” and “Echoes in the Darkness” with Robert Loggia, Peter Coyote and Stockard Channing, which all increased his net worth.

Cole then starred in 61 episodes of “Midnight Caller” (1988-1991), and in “The Old Man and the Sea” (1990) with Anthony Quinn and Patricia Clarkson, and in Wolfgang Petersen’s Oscar-nominated “In the Line of Fire” (1993) starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, and Rene Russo, increasing further his net worth. In the mid-‘90s, Cole had roles in “The Brady Bunch Movie”, “American Gothic”, “A Very Brady Sequel” and “For My Daughter’s Honor” in 1996, and continued in the late ’90s with  Sam Raimi’s Oscar-nominated thriller “A Simple Plan” (1998) with Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda. Cole also played in “Kiss the Sky” (1998) with William Petersen, “Office Space” (1999) starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston and David Herman, and in the series “Crusade” (1999) – the quality of his co-stars indicate the worth of these films.

In the early 2000’s, Cole again had parts in a Sam Raimi film “The Gift” starring Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, and Keanu Reeves, then in “One Hour Photo” with Robin Williams, “Cadet Kelly” starring Hilary Duff, and “I Spy” with Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, and Famke Janssen. From 2003 to 2006, Gary played Vice-President Bob Russell in episodes of “The West Wing”, and was busy in the mid-2000’s too, as he appeared in “The Ring Two” with Naomi Watts, David Dorfman and Sissy Spacek, “Mozart and the Whale” starring Josh Hartnett and Radha Mitchell, and in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (2006) with Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron Cohen.

Gary hardly rested in the later 2000s, working in “Breach” with Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe, in the series “Desperate Housewives”, with “Pineapple Express”,  “Forever Strong”  and “The Joneses” with Demi Moore, David Duchovny, and Amber Heard, all in 2008.

Most recently, Cole has been appearing in such series as “The Good Wife” (2010-2016), “Suits” (2011-2016), “Veep” (2012- ), and “Mercy Street” (2016- ), ensuring that his net worth is still growing.

Regarding his personal life, Gary Cole has been married to actress Teddi Siddall since 1992, and they have a daughter named Mary who is following her parents as an actress. However, as of late 2017 they have announced their intention to divorce.

IMDB Wikipedia “Hitman” (2016) “Kim Possible” (2002-2007) “Midnight Caller” (1988-1991) “Moonlighting” (1987) “The West Wing” (2003-2006) “American Gothic” (1995-1996) (1.8 m) $5 million 1956 1956-09-20 Actor American Anthony Quinn Attorney at Law” (2000-2007) Ben Stiller Bill Paxton Billy Bob Thornton Bob Russell Bridget Fonda BTVA Television Voice Acting Award (2016) Canadian Screen Award (2014) Cate Blanchett Charlie Sheen Chris Cooper Christine Taylor Clint Eastwood Corey Haim Crusade (1999) David Dorfman David Duchovny David Herman David Seltzer Demi Moore Eddie Murphy Famke Janssen Gary Cole Net Worth Gary Coleman Harvey Birdman Hilary Duff Illinois Illinois State University In the Line of Fire (1993) Jennifer Aniston Jim Belushi John C. Reilly John Malkovich Josh Hartnett Katie Holmes Keanu Reeves Kerri Green Laurie Metcalf Mary Cole Naomi Watts Office Space (1999) Owen Wilson Park Ridge Patricia Clarkson Peter Coyote Pineapple Express (2008) Primetime Emmy Awards (2014) Radha Mitchell Rene Russo Robert Loggia Robin Williams Rolling Meadows High School Ron Livingston Ryan Phillippe Sacha Baron Cohen Sam Raimi Screen Actors Guild Awards September 20 Seth Rogen Sissy Spacek Stockard Channing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) Teddi Siddall The Twilight Zone (1985) Tupac Shakur United States Vince Vaughn Will Ferrell William Petersen Winona Ryder Wolfgang Petersen

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Gary Michael Cole Trademarks

1. Usually plays cold, calculating authority figures

Gary Michael Cole Quotes

• (On landing The West Wing (1999) My manager had a connection to the show, which I think was helpful. She represents Stockard Channing. So, she was familiar with everybody over there, and that was pretty traditional. I had read for [producer] John Wells on a show called Third Watch (1999). I read for probably a couple other pilots, too. Didn’t get any of them, but a couple of those auditions went fairly well. And I went in to read before the beginning of the fifth season, which was a scene that turned out to be with Martin Sheen. It was actually the first scene I shot, and it went well. It was fairly traditional. But I think the fact my manager had been plugged into the show for a few years because of Stockard probably helped.
• (On the cult status of Office Space (1999)) It was like a lot of movies. You do the movie and then you walk away. It lasted maybe five weeks in theaters, if that. The first time I got a sense of it was probably a year later. I was doing a play in Chicago in the summer of 2000, because here [in L.A.], you don’t spend a lot of time on the street. You’re always driving. But in Chicago, I lived next door to the theatre, so I was always walking up and down this big boulevard in Chicago, Halsted Street, and going to restaurants and just down the street a lot. And people started coming up to me, doing Lumbergh’s dialogue. And this is a year and a half later, and I was really surprised, because I thought the movie was a flop. I didn’t know that it had gained an audience on video. And it happened consistently. I started going to restaurants and people would be like, “Hey Lumbergh!” I went to the ballpark at Wrigley Field, people were shouting out Lumbergh’s name. I thought, “My God, somebody’s actually watching this thing”. So that’s the first time, but then you kind of realize that in this day and age, a movie doesn’t have to be successful in the theater, necessarily. I mean, it helps, but it doesn’t have to die a death in the theater and never be seen again. You get a second chance if word of mouth helps you out, and that was the case of Office Space (1999).
• (On A Simple Plan (1998)) I got that role because of Sam Raimi, who had produced American Gothic (1995), and I just got a phone call, and that was nice. We didn’t really meet on A Simple Plan (1998), but there was a role they needed someone for, and he figured I wouldn’t screw it up too badly. Sam was great that way. I did two films for Sam. And even though I only had a small role in the movie, I think it’s maybe one of the best films I’ve been in from top to bottom, in terms of everything working-the story, the way it looked, the kind of impact it had. It wasn’t a huge financial success, but I don’t really think it was a flop, either, because it didn’t really cost that much to make. I think it’s a good film. Even though it’s a small role, it’s pretty pivotal, because it’s one of those things where we don’t know who this guy is, but either way, it’s trouble. Because if he’s really the law, he’s trouble for these guys. And if he’s not, if he’s the guy coming back to get revenge, then he’s even more trouble, which is what he turned out to be.
• (On landing The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)) I had done virtually no comedy at all until then. All the television I had done was either disease-of-the-week movies or Fatal Vision (1984) or a television series called Midnight Caller (1988). But Betty Thomas, who had actually directed an episode of Midnight Caller (1988), she was the director. I had worked with her, I had also met her years ago in New York. She was a friend of Jim Belushi’s, and I was doing “True West” with Jim Belushi, so I met her and knew her, liked her a lot. Thought she was very funny, very salty, and I went into the read thinking really that it just didn’t make sense that I would get this part. But I thought since it was Betty, I’d go in and say hi, do my thing, have fun, walk away. And so I went in, and it seemed to go okay. I went in and did my best Robert Reed impersonation, and it seemed to go fine. And a lot of time went by, more than six or seven weeks, it seemed. So I didn’t think any more about it. It was like most auditions. You walk in, and 90 percent of them are dead. And then I got a call back and went in, and [Betty] said, “I just want to see if this was as good as I thought it was”. So I did it again, and no one was laughing. She was just looking at me like an animal in the zoo. And then the third time I went in, they had already cast Shelley Long, so they wanted to see me with “Shelley Long”, and they put us on tape. They gave me some bad wig. I looked like “Buckwheat” from “The Little Rascals”, and they put me in some bad polyester shirt, and it was just really odd, because I looked so stupid. I left and didn’t think anything about it, and then it still went on and on. It was on and it was off, and it was on and it was off, and then finally I got a call from her and she said, “I really want you to do it”. And then she went to bat for me at the studio, because I don’t think the studio wanted me. It didn’t make sense for the studio; I’m sure they were going through their list of stand-up comedians and other comic actors that had done those movies. And nobody wanted to do it. They’d keep passing on it. And the time was coming, they had to make it, and so I was slipped in.
• In the Line of Fire (1993) wasn’t technically the first feature I was in, but I’m going to say that it was, because the first one I did, I was basically invisible. I was in a movie called Lucas (1986) with Corey Haim in 1986. I played an assistant football coach who had one line, which was looped, and I realized it wasn’t even my voice when I saw it. It was me saying the line on-screen, but it was someone else’s voice. They lost my phone number, I guess. But yeah, In the Line of Fire (1993) was in ’93, and that was an audition on tape, because that’s the way [director] Wolfgang [Petersen] did it. He didn’t usually meet people, and I believe Mr. Malkovich was responsible for getting me the part. I know John from college. I read for it and didn’t hear anything for a long time and, in the meantime, I saw John, and he had been set in it for a while as this a villain, and I just mentioned I read for it, and he said, “Well, I wish I would’ve known about that”. Then, a week or so later, I got a call that I was cast in it. So I think John put in a good word for me.
• (On his guest appearance on Miami Vice (1984)) I think the show was in its third season, so it was pretty popular at that point. It was a good experience for me. I was only there five or six days. There was a great actor in that episode who’s now a director, Perry Lang. We were kind of partner bad guys, a couple of rich kids who became drug smugglers. I just remember having a decent time in Miami for 10 days…Miami Vice was very stylized, in a weird way. It was kind of like the old Batman (1966). Sometimes the villains were very… I wouldn’t say they were cartoony, but they were themed. They were very strong characters. This was not NYPD Blue (1993). It wasn’t trying to be hardcore authentic all the time.
• (On his role in Fatal Vision (1984)) I was still really in Chicago. I don’t even think I made any pilgrimages out here. I was doing theater in Chicago, and I had a couple plays in New York, which is really what led me to do it. There was a guy by the name of Joel Thurm, who was vice-president at NBC at the time, and he had seen a production of “True West” that I was in, in New York. And I think maybe a year before that or less, I had read for Miami Vice (1984) and did a network screen test for that. Obviously I didn’t get that, but [Thurm] still had a memory of me. They had offered the MacDonald role to a few people who had turned it down, and the time for shooting it was approaching. And the casting director in Chicago, who I had known for a long time, suggested me to Joel Thurm. He remembered the play, and then I flew out and auditioned for it, and it became a reality. But it was one of those right-timing things, because they were getting down to the wire, and they were probably less than two weeks from shooting this thing. They already had Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint and Andy Griffith. It wasn’t a question of getting someone that was known, although nowadays I don’t know that they’d cast an unknown in that role. It was massive, the role was massive. It was a four-hour miniseries, and I was basically in every scene in the movie. It was an eight- or nine-week shoot out here in L.A.. It was a whole change of life for me, so I was looking at that, too. I read it and re-read the book, and it seemed to me that their take on it was pretty one-sided, and they were pretty convinced that he was guilty. But I didn’t disagree with that. That seemed to be the case, although I didn’t want to play him like that, because I thought it would be better to play him if he was innocent. It would make him more convincing, which he was to a lot of people-a lot of people were convinced he was innocent.
• (On landing To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)) [William] Petersen is an old friend of mine from a long time ago. We started a theater company in Chicago, and he’s the one that got me on that. I was out here in Los Angeles. Billy was renting a big house while he was doing the movie, and there were other Chicago actors out here migrating, mooching off of him while we were out in L.A. auditioning for stuff. And there were some roles in it, and he mentioned me to William Friedkin, so I just got this role as one of a bunch of bad guys that Billy hunted down. (While filming it) I never ran so much in a day in my life. It was somewhere out in a railyard outside of downtown near a bridge, like a train trestle. And it was running there, it was running across the bridge, and it was running through the industrial park, and finally Billy tackles me and roughs me up. But we ran all day long.

Gary Michael Cole Important Facts

• Appeared as an extra in the classic 1995 episode of Seinfeld “The Soup Nazi”, he can be seen standing behind Jerry and George while they are queuing at the soup restaurant and Banya approaches Jerry.
• Longtime friend of William Petersen.
• Went to college with John Malkovich.
• He was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “Bang” at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “Bang” at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was nominated for a 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “The Tooth of Crime” at the Remains Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was nominated for a 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award For Cameo Performance for his role in “The Magnolia Club” at the Novel Ventures Ltd. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• He has played both the President and Vice-President of the United States in different productions: President Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002) and Vice-President Bob Russell in The West Wing (1999).
• Daughter, Mary, diagnosed with autism at age 28 months. In 2007, at age 14, she is responding very well to education, treatment, and a special friend – a dog named Tattinger. Cole relates their experience in the anthological book, “Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence.” Although autism is not curable, it is very treatable, and Mary is, by all appearances, a normal child due to treatment, support, and the dedication of loving parents.
• Has a daughter with Teddi Siddall.
• Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas edged out Cole and Jimmy Smits for the roles of Crockett & Tubbs in Miami Vice (1984).
• Received the honor as being a Distinguished Alumnus at Rolling Meadows High School.
• Attended Illinois State University where he was among fellow actors Laurie Metcalf and John Malkovich.
• Began acting as Snoopy in a high school production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Gary has appeared in numerous award-winning productions in Chicago as well as off-Broadway in New York.
• In 1985, became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble.

Gary Michael Cole Filmography

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