These years were not entire-
ly without success as I did
finally make my debut on
Broadway with a six-month
stint in the one-man show,
Defending The Caveman at
the famed Booth Theater.

At the beginning of the new millennium came new opportunities. I spent a fun-filled year in the title role
of a sitcom called Daddio, which didn't last but was still
a wonderful experience and bore some lasting friendships. During the first and only hiatus for Daddio on January 3rd 2000, my family and I traveled to Sydney, Australia where we shot The Three Stooges movie in which I played another one of my childhood heroes, Jerome "Curly" Howard.

When Daddio ended, my wife and I decided it was time for
me to shed the roly-poly affable guy type and reinvent myself with a role in something hard-hitting, smart and powerful. I began a brutal training program, three hours a day, six days a week, determined to make a complete physical and

emotional transformation for whatever it was that I would do next. Well, call it fate or Kismet or luck…whatever, my next role would change my career and my life forever.

The Shield was a once in a lifetime experience because it
was not only a brilliantly written and structured show from
beginning to end. It quite literally changed the face of
television as we know it today, reinvented and reinvigorated the "cop show" genre, launched a network, dozens of careers (including reinventing my
own) and created a bond
between myself and a group
of people that will last the
rest of our lives. Vic Mackey
is the stuff actors' dreams
are made of.

During the seven year run
of The Shield I was fortu-
nate enough to make a few
films as well. I was thrilled
to play another one of my