Best known for performing the character of Avery's lawyer in the medical television series “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2016
His grandfather Ray Foster was a singer, clarinetist and organist with the “Ronnie Klaus Band” and he is related to songwriter Stephen Foster and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson
He had many jobs before becoming an actor like washing dishes in a dinner theater establishment, diving for sunken golf balls, building railroads and unloading nitroglycerin
He performed the character of grieving father Tom Maier in two episodes of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2011 and 2012