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Jeff Perry: Biography

Jeff Perry
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  • Birth Place: Highland Park, IL
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/16/1955, Leo
  • Profession: Actor
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Jeff Perry Fast Facts:
  • Founded what would become Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1974 with his high-school friends Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney, and served as its artistic director in the 1980s.
  • Met first wife, Laurie Metcalf, when both were theater students at Illinois State University.
  • Made movie debut in Remember My Name, a 1978 drama produced by Robert Altman; appeared in The Wedding (directed by Altman) later that year.
  • Has appeared on some 40 TV series, including Columbo, Family Ties, thirtysomething, L.A. Law, Frasier, NYPD Blue, ER, The West Wing, Lost, Prison Break, Cold Case, C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York.
  • Was a regular on CBS's Nash Bridges (1996-2001)
  • A semiregular on Grey's Anatomy (he plays Meredith Grey's father, Thatcher), he's married to series casting director Linda Lowy.
  • Jeff Perry Relationships:
  • Linda Lowy - Wife
  • Leah Perry - Daughter
  • Laurie Metcalf - Ex-wife
  • Zoe Perry - Daughter
  • College:
  • Illinois State University, Normal, IL (BA in theater, 1978)

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Sandal – Season 3 – Jeff Perry as Cyrus Beene Craig Sjodin/ABC
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Scandal, Dan Bucatinsky, Jeff Perry Richard Foreman/ABC
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Scandal, Columbus Short, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Diaz, Darby Stanchfield, Kerry Washington, Joshua Malina, Jeff Perry, Bellamy Young, Tony Goldwyn Craig Sjodin/ABC
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