Biography

Born in Northridge, California and while pursuing Pre-Med at the University of Santa Barbara, Ossie Beck enrolled in acting to balance the intensity of his biology and chemistry courses. Originally intending to be a pharmacist, Ossie instead found early success in business as a Senior Consultant and ultimately became Employee of the Year for International Dairy Queen. But it was not meant to be. He soon left his soft-serve life to pursue another melting passion - acting.

Upon his return to his native Southern California, Ossie studied acting in Los Angeles with Margie Haber, Lesly Kahn and at the Odyssey Theatre with Ron Sossi. He is also an Alumni of the World Famous Improv Olympic. Ossie's preparation met the perfect opportunity when he was cast from a World-Wide search by Steven Spielberg to Co-Star in the film Munich (2005) . Nominated for 5 Oscars, written by Tony Kushner, starred Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush.

Ossie went on to star in the pilot Screening Party (2008), based on the best-selling book from Dennis Hensley, and landed various television guest spots on Girls Behaving Badly (2002) with Chelsea Handler, _All of Us(2003) and others. He also starred in the film _Anthem(2007)_ , a film handpicked by Steven Spielberg to give director Jarrett Lee Conaway the opportunity at a DreamWorks contract. Ossie spent the later portion the 2008 entertaining thousands in Spain, Greece, Italy, Turkey and Malta. It's was ironic twist of fate, exactly three years after Ossie was there for filming Munich (2005) and it's also the birthplace of his grandparents.

Of Greek, Israeli and Bulgarian extraction, Ossie has lived an interesting life full of culture clashes, multiple languages and well...he's a red-head.

- IMDb mini biography by: Steve Rohr @ Century Public Relations