Dean Winters Biography

Fast Facts

• Spent six years traveling around the world after graduating college
• Was a New York City bartender before landing his first acting role
• Joined the Workhouse Theatre Company while studying with Will Esper
• Nearly died from a bacterial infection in 2009; he spent three weeks in the ICU and had to have two toes and half a thumb amputated
• In 2010, began playing Mayhem in a long-running series of Allstate Insurance ads