Andy Dick Biography
Andy Dick born Andrew Thomlinson is an American comedian, actor, musician, and television and film producer. He is well known as a comic, his first regular television role was on the short-lived but influential Ben Stiller Show. In the mid-1990s, he had a long-running stint on NBC’s NewsRadio and was a supporting character on Less than Perfect.
He briefly had his own program, The Andy Dick Show, on MTV. He is noted for his outlandish behavior on a number of Comedy Central Roasts and other appearances. He is also known for his eccentric behavior, struggles with drug addiction, and numerous sexual misconduct allegations and arrests.
Andy Dick Age
Andy was born on 21 December 1965, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. He is 57 years old as of 2022. He celebrates his birthday every 21 December every year.
Andy Dick Height and Weight
Andy stands at an average height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 meters tall) and weighs 75 kilograms. He has blonde hair and blue eyes.
Andy Dick Parents and Siblings
He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and he was raised in Presbyterian. He was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick and He was named Andrew Roane Dick. Andy has one sibling named Jeff Dick.
Andy Dick Wife and Children
Dick said in an interview with The Washington Post, he said he is bisexual. Dick was married to Ivone Kowalczyk from 1986 to 1990, with whom he has a son born in 1988. He also has a son and a daughter with Lena Sved.
Andy Dick Education
He attended Lassiter High School, which was temporarily housed at George Walton Comprehensive High School in Cobb County, Georgia. Dick appeared in numerous theater productions during his high school year. He was elected homecoming king in his senior year in 1983. He graduated from Joliet West High School in Joliet, Illinois in 1984.
After high school, Dick joined Chicago’s Second City and attended Illinois Wesleyan University for a semester before attending Columbia College Chicago, where he performed most of his university studies, and took improv comedy classes at iO Theater.
Andy Dick Career
Dick started his TV comedy career as a cast member on the sketch comedy program The Ben Stiller Show, which aired on the Fox Network from September 1992 to January 1993. In 1993, on the third night of David Letterman’s new CBS show, Dick appeared as “Donnie the CBS Page Who Likes to Suck Up”, during which he gave a watch to Letterman. The host then handed him a pencil, prompting Dick to cry and then walk backstage to much applause.
In 1994, Dick played the part of Pepé the stylist in the episode “Maggie the Model” on The Nanny. He also starred as Zachary Smart, the son of Maxwell Smart and Agent 99, in the Get Smart Fox television remake (a role he reportedly tried to escape in order to go to work with NewsRadio). In 2001, Dick starred along with Kieran Culkin on the short-lived NBC summer television series Go Fish.
Dick had also had a guest shot on Star Trek: Voyager as the Emergency Medical Hologram Mark II in “Message in a Bottle”. He competed in the eighth season of Celebrity Poker Showdown. He finished in last place, behind Robin Tunney, Christopher Meloni, Macy Gray, and Joy Behar.
On May 16, 2007, Dick was roasted on The Howard Stern Show by Artie Lange, Lisa Lampanelli, Reverend Bob Levy, Sal Governale, Shuli, Colin Quinn, Benjy Bronk, Dave Attell, Greg Fitzsimmons, and Yucko the Clown. In 2008, Dick appeared on episode No. 3 of The Real World: Hollywood to tell cast members that they would be taking improv classes. Dick was a contestant on Season 16 of Dancing With the Stars in 2013. He was partnered with former troupe member, Sharna Burgess, and placed seventh in the competition. Dick was on ABC’s Celebrity Wife Swap on July 14, 2013.
On August 19, 2009, Dick became a downloadable character in the PlayStation Network’s video game Pain. In 2010, Dick voiced Jesus Christ in an episode of Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
Andy Dick Movies
- Blonde Ambition
- Happily N’Ever After
- The Comebacks
- Chasing Robert
- Rock Slyde
- Funny People
- Fudgy Wudgy Fudge Face
- Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
- Division III: Football’s Finest
- Freaky Deaky
- The Reef 2: High Tide
- Deadly Punkettes
- Live Nude Girls
- L.A. Slasher
- Zoolander 2
- A Winter Rose
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