Craig Bierko Biography

Fast Facts

• His performance in "The Music Man" earned him a Tony Award nomination, a Drama Desk Award nomination and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination in 2000, all for Best Actor in a Musical
• Studied journalism at Boston University and attended the School of Speech at Northwestern University
• Son of Pat and Rex Bierko, both of who ran a local theater
• Gave an acclaimed performance as traveling salesman Professor Harold Hill in a 2000 Broadway revival of Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man․"
• Some of his best known roles are as the boxer Max Baer in "Cinderella Man," a part he bulked up considerably to play, and as Tom Ryan, a spoof of actor Tom Cruise, in "Scary Movie 4․"
• People magazine listed him as its Sexiest Broadway Star in 2000
• Took Nelson Aspen's step-aerobics class at the Martin Henry Fitness Studio in West Hollywood in the early 1990s
• Turned down the part of the Chandler in the hit sitcom "Friends" after reading the script