Peter Scolari
Peter Scolari was born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, United States on September 12th, 1955 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 68, Peter Scolari biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Scolari's first ongoing role was in the short-lived 1980 sitcom Goodtime Girls as the juggling neighbor of the title characters. He and Tom Hanks were then cast in another sitcom, Bosom Buddies, as men who disguise themselves as women to live in an affordable apartment in a women's-only residence. After Bosom Buddies was canceled in 1982, Scolari joined the cast of Newhart in 1984, in which he played Michael Harris, a yuppie local TV producer. Scolari stayed with the series until its conclusion in 1990.
Following central roles in the unsuccessful series Family Album and Dweebs, Scolari spent three seasons playing inventor Wayne Szalinski, a role originated on film by Rick Moranis, in the TV adaptation of the Disney film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. He later had a recurring role as the father of Lena Dunham's character on HBO's Girls, for which he won an Emmy in 2016. He also portrayed Gotham City’s corrupt police commissioner Gillian B. Loeb in Fox’s superhero crime drama Gotham and Bishop Marx on Paramount's series Evil (2019-2021).
Scolari appeared on Broadway in Wicked (as the Wizard of Oz), Sly Fox, Hairspray and Lucky Guy, which reunited him with his Bosom Buddies co-star Hanks. Scolari also appeared Off-Broadway in Old Man Joseph and His Family, The Exonerated, In the Wings, The Music Man and White's Lies.
In 1996, Scolari starred in a version of the stage musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, produced for the A&E television network.
In 2014, Scolari portrayed Yogi Berra in Bronx Bombers. His wife Tracy Shayne played Berra's wife Carmen.