| Stephen Tobolowsky  Born: 30-May-1951
Birthplace: Dallas, TX
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day Stephen Tobolowsky is a character actor, appearing in small roles in several films every year. He's balding, middle-aged, pudgy, and white -- utterly forgettable, really -- but like the best character actors, chances are you remember him without even knowing it. In Groundhog Day, he was Ned Ryerson, the annoying insurance salesman who pestered Bill Murray every morning. In Mememto, he was Guy Pearce's doppelganger. In Single White Female, he was Bridget Fonda's leering boss. In Sneakers, he was the "Passport?" guy. In Thelma & Louise, he was a dogged FBI agent. In Spaceballs, he was Captain of the Guard.
He co-wrote David Byrne's True Stories, and wrote and directed the bizarre but rarely-seen "make me a star" story Two Idiots in Hollywood, based on his own play. He directed Holly Hunter in the original New York stage production of The Miss Firecracker Contest. Tobolowsky has appeared in dozens of movies, from Swing Shift to The Insider, Adaptation to Freaky Friday to Freddy Got Fingered. And on the small screen, he's done Seinfeld, Mad About You, The Practice Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Drew Carey Show, among many others.
His aunt, Hermine Tobolowsky, was a feminist and activist, who led the movement to add the Equal Legal Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution. It was adopted in 1972. She died in 1995. He is also a distant relative of 1960s schlockmeister Edwin Tobolowsky, producer of Zontar: The Thing from Venus, Mars Needs Women, and In the Year 2889.
Wife: Ann Hearn (actress, Evening Shade)
High School: Kimball High School (1969)
University: BA Drama, Southern Methodist University
University: MA Drama, University of Illinois
TELEVISION
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Heroes Bob (2007)
John from Cincinnati Mark Lewinsky (2007)
Deadwood Hugo Jarry (2005-6)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Wild Hogs (2-Mar-2007)
The Valley of Light (28-Jan-2007)
Blind Dating (28-Jul-2006)
Failure to Launch (10-Mar-2006)
The Sasquatch Gang (Jan-2006)
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (11-Mar-2005)
Robots (10-Mar-2005) [VOICE]
Little Black Book (06-Aug-2004)
Garfield (11-Jun-2004)
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (23-Jan-2004)
Freaky Friday (6-Aug-2003)
Kingpin (2-Feb-2003)
National Security (15-Jan-2003)
The Country Bears (21-Jul-2002)
Love Liza (14-Jan-2002)
The Day the World Ended (23-Nov-2001)
Black River (6-Jul-2001)
Ritual (2001)
Memento (5-Sep-2000)
The Prime Gig (1-Sep-2000)
Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (21-Apr-2000)
Bossa Nova (21-Feb-2000)
Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes (2000)
The Insider (5-Nov-1999)
One Man's Hero (2-Aug-1999)
Around the Fire (10-Apr-1999)
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (29-Sep-1998) [VOICE]
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (19-May-1998) [VOICE]
Black Dog (01-May-1998)
Mr. Magoo (25-Dec-1997)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (29-Sep-1997)
Boys Life 2 (7-Mar-1997)
The Curse of Inferno (1997)
The Glimmer Man (4-Oct-1996)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (8-Mar-1996) [VOICE]
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (25-Aug-1995)
Murder in the First (20-Jan-1995)
Radioland Murders (21-Oct-1994)
My Father the Hero (4-Feb-1994)
Trevor (Jan-1994)
Josh and S.A.M. (24-Nov-1993)
Calendar Girl (03-Sep-1993)
The Pickle (30-Apr-1993)
Groundhog Day (12-Feb-1993)
Roadside Prophets (8-Oct-1992)
Hero (2-Oct-1992)
Where the Day Takes You (11-Sep-1992)
Sneakers (9-Sep-1992)
Single White Female (14-Aug-1992)
Basic Instinct (20-Mar-1992)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (28-Feb-1992)
Wedlock (5-Sep-1991)
Thelma & Louise (24-May-1991)
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (12-Oct-1990)
Funny About Love (21-Sep-1990)
The Grifters (14-Sep-1990)
Bird on a Wire (18-May-1990)
Mirror, Mirror (1990)
Breaking In (13-Oct-1989)
In Country (7-Sep-1989)
Great Balls of Fire! (30-Jun-1989)
Mississippi Burning (9-Dec-1988)
Spaceballs (24-Jun-1987)
Nobody's Fool (Nov-1986)
The Philadelphia Experiment (05-Oct-1984)
Swing Shift (13-Apr-1984)
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