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Jeff Perry was born on 16 August, 1955 in Highland Park, Illinois, U.S., is an American actor (born 1955). Discover Jeff Perry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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68 years old |
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16 August 1955 |
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16 August |
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Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. |
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United States
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 68 years old group.
Jeff Perry Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Jeff Perry's Wife?
His wife is Laurie Metcalf (m. 1983-1986)
Linda Lowy (m. 1989)
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Laurie Metcalf (m. 1983-1986)
Linda Lowy (m. 1989) |
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2, including Zoe Perry |
Jeff Perry Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jeff Perry worth at the age of 68 years old? Jeff Perry’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Jeff Perry's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Jeffrey Perry (born August 16, 1955) is an American actor of stage, television, and film.
He is known for his role as Richard Katimski on the teen drama My So-Called Life, Thatcher Grey on the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, Cyrus Beene on the political drama series Scandal, all for ABC, and as Inspector Harvey Leek on the CBS crime drama Nash Bridges.
He most recently starred on the ABC drama Alaska Daily, alongside Hilary Swank.
Perry is a co-founder of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
He and schoolmates Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney started the company in one end of the cafeteria at Highland Park High School and later moved it to a small space in the Immaculate Conception Church in Highland Park.
It has since grown into a notable national theater company whose alumni include John Malkovich, John Mahoney, and Joan Allen.
Perry remains an executive artistic director along with co-founders Kinney and Sinise.
He graduated from Illinois State University in 1978.
They had a child, actress Zoe Perry, together in 1983, but they subsequently divorced.
After spending nearly two decades with Steppenwolf, Perry moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue film and television work.
Perry perhaps is best known as San Francisco Police Department inspector Harvey Leek (a diehard Grateful Dead fan) on the CBS police drama series Nash Bridges.
In 1989, he married Linda Lowy, Grey's Anatomy's casting director, with whom he has a daughter, Leah Perry.
Perry encouraged Georgia voters who planned to cast a ballot in the 2021 U.S. Senate races to make sure their ID met requirements and contact VoteRiders with questions about acceptable ID or help obtaining it.
He was a tough superior to Kevin Bacon's detective in the thriller Wild Things (1998).
His many television and film credits include The Human Stain (2003), Hard Promises (1991) and The Grifters (1990) as well as appearances on My So-Called Life (1994), The West Wing (2003), The Practice (2003), Lost (2005), Cold Case (2006), Raines (2007), and several episodes of Grey's Anatomy (2005) as Meredith Grey's father, Thatcher Grey.
He replaced John Billingsley in the role of Terrence Steadman in the critically acclaimed TV show Prison Break.
Perry also has been in multiple stage productions.
These include Time of your Life (in San Francisco and Seattle), Grapes of Wrath (Broadway and London), and The Caretaker (Broadway).
He starred in the Tracy Letts play August: Osage County on Broadway, which originated at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
In 2011, Perry received an honorary doctorate from Illinois State University in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the field of theatre.
In 2012, he appeared Off Broadway playing Christopher, the aggressive father in Tribes by Nina Raine.
From 2012 to 2018, Perry starred in the ABC drama series Scandal as Cyrus Beene.
In 2015, Perry performed alongside his daughter Zoe Perry and actor Kevin McKidd in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Anna Christie at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West Los Angeles.
During the production, he said "During Anna Christie the biggest challenge I had was working with my daughter and sort of not stopping and asking an audience member for a camera to record the moment."
In 2022-23, Perry starred as editor Stanley Kornik in the ABC drama series Alaska Daily.
Perry was born in Highland Park, Illinois, where his father was a teacher at Highland Park High School.