- Close friends with many actors he met at the beginning of his career at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago including Michael Shannon, Tracy Letts, Nick Offerman and Chris Bauer.
- An accomplished screenwriter whose feature film screenplays Snow Ponies and Strange Skies both ended up on Hollywood's well-respected 'Black List' of the best unproduced screenplays in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Both films are currently in active development(2016).
- Plays two roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999): the pharmacist named Sir Edmund William Godfrey in the film's prologue and the young pharmacist who harasses Julianne Moore in a later scene.
- His ancestry is primarily French and German, British/Irish, Ashkenazi Jewish and Swedish.
- Ex-member of the comedy sketch group, "The Pretty Okay Ho-hum Spectacular on Ice!"
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