Theodore Martin McGinley, professionally known as Ted McGinley, is an American actor. He starred in the ABC drama ‘Hope & Faith’ and in the Fox sitcom ‘Married... with Children’. On the big screen, he is known for playing villain Stan Gable in the 1984 comedy ‘Revenge of the Nerds’. As a young boy, he was deeply interested in sports. At high school, he focused on swimming and athletics, and was also an avid player of water polo. He later attended the University of Southern California on a water polo scholarship. It was only during his university days that he became interested in acting. After majoring in real estate and urban planning, McGinley dropped out of the university and moved to New York to pursue acting. He began his acting career in the early 1980s and has appeared in a number of prominent TV shows and films since then. A father of two behind the screen, McGinley has been married to actress Gigi Rice since 1991.
