Actors: Wayne Knight

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Jméno:Wayne Knight
Datum narození:1955-08-07
Místo narození:New York City, New York, USA
Výška:1.70 m
IMDb ID:nm0001431

Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor. In television, he played Newman on Seinfeld (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001). He also voiced Igor on Toonsylvania (1998–1999), Mr. Blik on Catscratch (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018). In film, he played Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park (1993), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. He also portrayed Pete "Piccolo" Dugan in Dead Again (1991), John Correli in Basic Instinct (1992), Stan Podolak in Space Jam (1996) and Zach Mallozzi in Rat Race (2001) and provided the voices of Tantor in Tarzan (1999), Al McWhiggin in Toy Story 2 (1999) and The Elf Elder in Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon (2014).

  • Credits an episode of Seinfeld with prompting him to lose weight. After shooting several takes of a scene requiring him to run through a field, he began to experience heart palpitations. He visited his doctor and was told that he was approaching morbid obesity and diabetes. Knight then embarked upon a diet-and-exercise program that allowed him to lose 117 lbs, dropping his weight from 327 to 210 lbs.
  • Before landing the role of Newman in Seinfeld (1989), he had auditioned for the role of George Costanza.
  • Worked as a private detective in between acting jobs in his early days.
  • Has worn the same pair of his trademark glasses since his role in Seinfeld (1989).
  • Reports claim he was the first person to be cast for Jurský park (1993) after Steven Spielberg saw him in the "interview scene" of Základní instinkt (1992).
  • The first reference to "Newman" on Seinfeld (1989) has the unseen character attempting suicide by jumping out of Jerry's building. In the original episode, the voice of "Newman" is supplied by Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld (1989)). On the syndicated version, Wayne Knight's voice was dubbed in.
  • Held his wedding ceremony in Michael Richards' house.
  • While attending college in Georgia, was told by a theater professor that he would never make it as an actor.
  • He is of British (father) and Italian (mother) descent.
  • Performed at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, after he dropped out of college.
  • He attended the University of Georgia for a short time.
  • Has a son born around 2010.
  • Completed Anthony Hines/Larry Charles's pilot, Lee Mathers (2010), for CBS, with Paul Kaye and Nicollette Sheridan', as Kaye's erstwhile manager and partner-in-crime. (February 2010)
  • His name borrows from two of Batman's aliases, Bruce Wayne and The Dark Knight. Fittingly, he provided the voice of Batman's enemy Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin in Harley Quinn (2019).
  • In early 2024 he could be seen in a 30 second television advertisement for Paycom in a rather amusingly sinister role, entitled 'The Nemesis:Manifesto'.
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