Won three NCAA national championships as a defensive midfielder for the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team
Worked briefly as a credit analyst at a bank in Baltimore after graduating from college
Played semi-professional football for the Baltimore Eagles in 1982
Began taking acting classes in 1983 at the Baltimore Dance Center, before quitting his full-time banking job and moving to New York City
Television debut came in 1989, guest starring in an episode of The Cosby Show
Broadway debut was in 1994, starring opposite Julie Harris and Calista Flockhart in the critically acclaimed 50th anniversary revival of Tennessee Williams' classic The Glass Menagerie