Mike Rowe Biography

Fast Facts

• Sang professionally with the Baltimore opera
• Sold man-made diamonds as a QVC host and claims to have sold more than $100 million in merchandise
• Hosted in-flight video features, On Air TV, for American Airlines
• Spent three years as host of Evening Magazine in San Francisco
• Has appeared in commercials for Tylenol, Ford, Lee Jeans, Caterpillar and, with his parents, Viva paper towels
• Voice of Discovery's Deadliest Catch Alaskan crab-fishing series
• Estimated that he's narrated 1000 hours of television, including TBS's Worst Case Scenario, History Channel's The Most, and as a Discovery Channel staple involved with Egypt Week Live, Deadliest Catch and now Dirty Jobs
• Launched a website, MikeRoweWorks
• com, in 2008 to bring attention to the decline of the blue-collar trades and the deteriorating American infrastructure