Dean Winters

Birth Name:

Dean Gerard Winters

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Actor

Graduated from Colorado College with a degree in English
Brother to Scott Winters, an actor, and Brad Winters, a TV writer and producer, and all three of them worked on "Oz․"
Suffered from a bacterial infection in 2009 that nearly cost him his life - his heart stopped for two and a half minutes before paramedics revived him
One of his earliest professional acting jobs was in the TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street․"
Was a popular bartender in New York with his brother, Scott, and one of their regular customers was "Oz" creator Tom Fontana
Quote: "When there's not 10 feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' [his trademark '30 Rock' phrase] or 'Hey, Mayhem․'"
Quote: "[on his role as Mayhem] "I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance․""
Best known for his role as Ryan O'Reily in "Oz" and as the character Mayhem in Allstate Insurance's commercial series
Appeared in the music video "Bonnie and Shyne" by Shyne in 2001

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