John Michael Higgins

At 61 years old, John Michael Higgins has this physical status:

John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim.

He portrayed Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced and provided the voice of Iknik Blackstone Varrick in The Legend of Korra.

He also starred in the NBC sitcom Great News as Chuck Pierce for 2 seasons.

He currently hosts the game show America Says.

He was nominated for a 2019 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host.

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Career

Higgins, a theatre technician with Street 70, a rockville, MD, in the early 1980s, was a resident of the United States. It is now known as Round House Theatre. He also taught voice and improvisation. Higgins appeared in Broadway's La Bête in 1991, and he was seen Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in a performance of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice. He appeared in Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey Off-Broadway in 1993.

Higgins' numerous television appearances include recurring characters from Ally McBeal's Keeper, Boston Legal and Honey, and I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. He portrayed Elaine's boyfriend Kurt in Season 8 of Seinfeld. In five episodes of Arrested Development, he also played attorney Wayne Jarvis. Higgins arranged the complex vocal harmonies sung by the nine-part ("neuftet") New Main Street Singers in 2003's A Mighty Wind, a departure from the writers' original idea of having the group perform in unison and bolstered by Higgins' musical ability.

Higgins gained more attention by being included in the films Fun with Dick and Jane, Pitch Perfect and its sequels, and The Break-Up, in which he also wrote vocal arrangements. Judge Mentok, Attorney at Law, 2401 Penitent Tangent in Halo 2, and Riddler in Batman: The Brave and the Bold was one of his voice actors. In the HBO television film The Late Shift, Higgins also portrayed David Letterman. In the Epcot attraction Test Track pre-show video, Higgins was seen. However, the ride was refurbished in 2012, but the pre-show room was deleted.

Higgins directs and appears on stage from time to time as well. In 2004, he appeared as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the American premiere of David Hare's Stuff Happens at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In 2003, he appeared in A. R. Gurney's Big Bill at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York.

Higgins has been included in television ads for DirecTV, alongside co-star Christopher Guest and Ed Begley Jr., and Old Navy. He appeared in season 2 of TNT's Raising the Bar as an openly gay, rule-obsessed judge. Higgins appeared in The Suite Life on Deck, portraying the sinister and secluded Mr. Tipton.

Higgins was cast in Happily Divorced opposite Fran Drescher in 2011. Peter Lovett, Drescher's real-life ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, played Fran's gay ex-husband Peter Lovett, a figure based on Drescher's real-life ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.

In The Legend of Korra, Higgins was portrayed as the voice of vain and eccentric businessman Iknik Blackstone Varrick.

Chuck Pierce appeared on NBC's Great News from 2017 to 2018.

In 2018, Higgins became the host of the game show America Says. Coincidentally, he appeared in a season 3 episode of Monk's television comedy/drama detective drama.

Higgins has appeared in television commercials for Omaha-based Physicians Mutual Insurance Company since 2019. Higgins first appeared in a series of ads for 123.ie, an Irish insurance company, in 2020.

In the 2020 Peacock comedy series Saved by the Bell, which was created by Tracey Wigfield, Higgins played Principal Toddman.

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