Biografia

Brother of accomplished singer/songwriter, Ross Laverty. Ross, a longtime protege of the great Judy Davis, vocal coach of Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and numerous rockers.

Achieved the highest rank in Boy Scouting, Eagle Scout, while in his youth in Oakland, California. (Member of the Eagles Nest with Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, and others)

When he first decided on acting as a career, he paid for acting classes by working as a professional clown, making an estimated 5,000 balloon animals for kids.

Appeared on TV's classic show 'The Dating Game' during its final season on the air. As Bachelor #2, he joined other successful actors who had appeared on the show early in their careers including Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds.

Member, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Even though my G.P.A. was near perfect in college, they denied me admission to this exclusive graduate school in the Sciences at U.C. Berkeley. But, it turned out they did me a favor. At that point, I decided I'd dedicate my life to art, to acting. Life's been the wildest adventure you could imagine ever since.

I often think to myself, I'm wasting my life... doing this acting thing. I should be out there saving animals or fighting to save our environment... two things I've been passionate about all my life. But here I am... immersed in this outrageously successful acting career... fiddling while Rome burns.

Cine 7...my neighborhood movie theater in Oakland during the late 60's and 70's...It was the Roman Colosseum for movie watching during a turbulent time in American history. Every night a movie played, it was like a rock concert, a super bowl, and the best party you've ever been to all rolled into one. As a young kid, I hung out at that crazy place as much as I could and took note through the clouds of pot smoke of the booze, the sex in the seats, the cat calls, and the firecrackers and flaming cigarettes that made their way toward the screen when the movie got slow, on and on. Movies were an event like no other at Cine 7 and while those days and the theater are long gone, I try to keep the spirit of that place alive in the way I play my characters and the way I live my life.

I'm old-school, you know, old-fashioned in the way I am in the world and the way I'd like to see the world be. Always have been. At the same time, the madness I see in the world gives me endless amounts of delicious inspiration to play the offbeat characters I do.

Hollywood. I've worked a few days in this town. And I've noticed the Walk of Fame and all that, but the real heroes around here are the rank and file who just keep showing up, on both sides of the camera, their names on unmarked slabs up and down the boulevard.