Dan Lauria Biography

Fast Facts

• Was a star lineman on his high-school football team
• Served in the U
• S
• Marines during the Vietnam war
• Acted as the dramatic director of the Raft Theater in Manhattan
• Directed a production of Self Storage at the Equity Waiver Theater in Los Angeles in 1990
• Met Wonder Years creator Neal Marlens while shooting a guest spot for Growing Pains, and the two connected over their Long Island upbringing and the fact that they attended rival high schools
• Made his Broadway debut in 2010 as the star of Lombardi, a play about the life of football coach Vince Lombardi