Dave Foley

At 61 years old, Dave Foley has this physical status:

David Scott Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and author.

He is co-founder of The Kids in the Hall, which is responsible for their eponymous sketch show and their feature-length film Brain Candy.

Dave Nelson appeared on NewsRadio, Flik in A Bug's Life, and hosted the game show Celebrity Poker Showdown.

Early life

Foley was born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, on January 4, 1963. He is the son of Mary and Michael, a steamfitter. His mother is from Stafford, England.

Personal life

On December 31, 1991, Foley married Canadian writer Tabatha Southey. In 1997, the couple divorced. Both the couple have two children. Foley was obligated to pay Southey $10,700 a month under an interim child care deal signed in 2001, a figure based on his income when NewsRadio was in operation. Foley's earnings had declined to the point that the $10,700 sum represented "literally 4% of [his] income," but he was unable to get the obligation reduced in court. He feared that if he returned to Canada he would be arrested under Family Responsibility Office orders, which would amount to over half a million dollars in back payments. Foley and Southey had settled a child support case by 2013, and he was able to return to work in the country where he was born. After he appeared in Spun Out, he told Vancouver's The Georgia Straight that "I made enough money to pay the admission fee to Canada."

Foley married actress Crissy Guerrero on August 1, 2002. In 2008, the couple was divorced. They have a daughter, Alina Chiara Foley, who was born on April 16, 2003 and spent as a child actor. Guerrero and Foley reconciled and were remarried on December 31, 2016.

Foley has suffered with depression throughout his entire life. He "used to drink a lot," but he stopped drinking on December 22, 2014, after being inebriated and delinquent, resulting in a serious head injury. Foley developed a subdural hematoma and spent four days in the intensive care unit. Following his injury, he remarked that he hadn't "had a drink in four years" and had almost no depression in February 2019.

Foley lives in downtown Los Angeles. He is a fan of coffee, and he claims to drink up to "50 cups a day when I am on set."

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Career

Foley pursued stand-up comedy for about a year after dropping out of high school and meeting Kevin McDonald, who gave him a job as an usher at a local art house movie theatre. In the miniseries Anne of Avonlea, Lewis Allen played Lewis Allen. The Kids in the Hall was founded by Foley, McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson in 1984. The troupe's eponymous television series debuted in 1988 and ended in 1995. Foley portrayed Hecubus, one of the Sizzler sisters, A. T. & Love boss Bruno Puntz Jones, Mr. Heavyfoot, Jocelyn, and Lex. Brain Candy was first involved with Kids in the Hall, but he left the troupe early in the story, dissatisfied with the internal strife and the script's quality, and joined the NewsRadio cast instead. Foley, who had not signed any deal with the company, was unable to sign a deal that would allow the remainder of the troupe to be paid for the script, but he was sure that it would never be shot. Foley was allowed to appear in the film because he was contractually obliged to do so. He is the only one of the group to be uncredited as a writer. Foley returned to the troupe in 2000 and has been an integral part of the company's many changes. He appeared in the Children's Hall 2010 reunion project. Paul Simms, the presenter of NewsRadio, was a huge fan of Foley's work and wrote the role of Dave Nelson specifically for him. The show's protagonist was based on his own personality quirks, such as his caffeine intake and his obsession with the sitcom Green Acres.

Foley was recently reunited with NewsRadio writer Joe Furey, a follow-up to Furey's comedy Love and Support. In January 2013, Foley introduced Relatively Well, a stand-up special that was released by Showtime. Nelson Hibbert, an office worker who discovers his boss's murder, mistakenly believes he will be blamed for the crime and runs off as a fugitive in the comedy-thriller The Wrong Guy. In the film On the Line, he played the boss of 'N Sync singer Lance Bass.' In which he, a Mexican Elvis impersonator, Elvis Stojko, and Dick Dale travel to Canada in search of the true meaning of Christmas specials, Foley hosted the CBC Christmas Special, The True Meaning of Christmas Specials, in which he, a Mexican Elvis impersonator, Eric Stojko and Dick Dale returned to Canada in search of the true meaning of Christmas specials. In the 2003-2004 season, he portrayed Jack McFarland's boyfriend Stuart Lamarack on Will & Grace. Foley was the host of the Celebrity Poker Showdown on Bravo in 2004. In 2007, he appeared nude in Uwe Boll's film adaptation of the controversial PC game Postal, and he became the judge for the US version of Thank God You're Here. In the undead office comedy Netherbeast Incorporated (2007), he portrayed a middle management employee who happens to be a vampire, and Wayne portrayed the disgruntled elf Wayne in the holiday special series Prep & Landing. He appeared in Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary, as well as in the 2007 movie Two-Four Years. In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he worked as a high school principal. Mr. Bloom, Marshall's potential future manager, appeared in How I Met Your Mother in 2011. Foley portrayed Jerry Dunham, the manager of Andrew Carlson (David Hornsby), from 2011 to 2012 in the CBS sitcom How to Be a Gentleman. After an awkward pause and glance at Brick's (Atticus Shaffer) school therapist in The Middle in 2012 and 2013, Foley plays Dr. Fulton, Brick's (Atticus Shaffer) school therapist in The Middle, where he says their behaviour is similar to those of comedy sketches from The Kids in the Hall. Foley starred in the third season of Robson Arms on CTV in February 2013 and also appeared in Spun Out, a CTV sitcom. Foley appeared in ABC's Dr. Ken as a guest star.

Foley has also appeared in animated films, television series, and video games, including Flik in A Bug's Life, as well as reprising for a character in Toy Story 2 and Cars' outtakes, as well as in a segment from Robot Chicken and Lego The Incredibles.

Foley was recruited by 49 North Inc./Fuel Industries, a multi-national branded content and entertainment firm, in 2009 to star in a web series entitled The Sensible Traveler with Bobby Fargo, written by TV writer Stephen Hibbert and directed by a number of people, including Leslie Iwerks and Chris Roach. The series, which has since appeared on many television shows in North Inc./Fuel Industries, has attracted a large number of visitors since the start of 2010. As to a second season of being shot, no word has been released.

Foley appeared alongside Mark McKinney and Kevin McDonald in the 1993 music video for Vancouver band Odds' "Heterosexual Man." In the film, the three comedians played stereotypical macho jocks in the audience of a tiny bar where Odds are playing until Foley inexplicably turns into a woman.

He appeared in Neva Dinova's 2005 song "Yellow Datsun" (Japan). In 2008, he appeared in an alternative music video for Ottawa band Hollerado's song "Americanarama," where he parodied American Apparel CEO Dov Charney. He also appeared in the band's "Desire 126" music video. Foley appeared in a music video for the Los Angeles band Black Robot's interpretation of the JJ Cale song "Cocaine," which was shot at Jumbo's Clown Room in 2010.

In 2012, Foley starred in Off!

"Borrow and Bomb" by the artist's music video for their song Borrow and Bomb, playing a "professional educator" named Dale Antwerp, the show's public access talk show entitled Teen Talk.

He appeared in another Off!

In 2014, a woman named "Red White and Black," which was playing the role of a fascist orchestrator in a video.

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