Johnny Galecki
Johnny Galecki in 2007
Birth name	Johnny Mark Galecki
Born	April 30, 1975 (1975-04-30) (age 32) Bree, Belgium ( Citizen of U.S.)
Official site	None

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Biography

Early life

Galecki was born in Bree, Belgium to American parents. His mother, Mary Lou, is a mortgage consultant, and his father, Richard Galecki, was a member of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Belgium and also worked as a rehabilitation teacher.^[1] Galecki moved to Chicago with his family when he was three years old. Bree is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ...

Career

His best known role was as David Healy (first introduced as Kevin Healy) in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne. His character was the artistically-talented, curly-haired, soft-spoken boyfriend (later husband) of Darlene, the droll, tomboyish second daughter of the Conner family played by Sara Gilbert. Galecki was cast in similar roles in the 1997 summer slasher, I Know What You Did Last Summer as a jealous loser who has an eye for Jennifer Love Hewitt, and the 1998 dark comedy The Opposite of Sex as a gay teen who lies about being molested. In the year 2000, Galecki took a bit of a twist and reunited with the same filmmaker, who cast him in Bounce as another gay man, an assistant to Ben Affleck's character Buddy Amaral, who also helps Dodge out with his love life. People called David Healy include: A Northern Irish football player: David Healy (footballer). ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Jackie Harris redirects here. ... Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne and as Paula Schaeffer in 24. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The original 1974 Black Christmas is considered the first authentic slasher. ... I Know What You Did Last Summer is an Award-winning 1997 horror film. ... Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The term problem plays is applied to the three plays William Shakespeare wrote between the last of his pure comedies (Twelfth Night) and the first of his pure tragedies (Othello) They are Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida. ... The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 film directed by Don Roos. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Don Roos is a screenwriter and director. ... Bounce is a 2000 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, and directed by Don Roos. ... Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor, director, an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. ...

Galecki continued his film streak with other David Healy-like roles in Suicide Kings as a nebbishy rich kid who folds easily under pressure, and brief bit parts in high-profile films like Bean as a bad-boyfriend biker, and a minor supporting part in Vanilla Sky. Galecki showed that he had range as an actor with typecast-breaking roles like a young criminal delinquent in A Family Torn Apart, a TV movie based on a true story about a serial murderer and the death of a pair of parents. Suicide Kings was a 1997 American movie, starring Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, and Henry Thomas. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Bean (also known as Mr. ... Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film which has been variously characterized by published film critics as an odd mixture of science fiction, romance, and reality warp [2], part Beautiful People fantasy, part New Age investigation of the Great Beyond[3] a love story, a struggle for the soul, or an... The word typecasting (past participle typecast) can mean more than one thing: typecasting (programming) typecasting (acting) in acting This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

He most recently played the half-brother of the main characters, sisters Hope Shanowski and Faith Fairfield, in the TV Sitcom Hope & Faith. Galecki also appeared as a guest star in a first season episode of My Name Is Earl, and as a character named "Trouty" on TBS's sitcom, My Boys. Hope & Faith is an American sitcom that aired for three seasons on ABC from 2003 to 2006. ... My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ... TBS also stands for Tokyo Broadcasting System, a Japanese television network. ... My Boys is a United States television sitcom that debuted on November 28, 2006, on TBS. The show deals with a female sports columnist in Chicago and the men in her life including her brother, her ex-boyfriend, her best friend and a sportswriter for a rival publication. ...

Galecki starred fall/winter 2006-07 in the Broadway play The Little Dog Laughed as Alex, a male prostitute. In this role, he was required to do a full-frontal nude scene, the first of his acting career. Galecki originated the role earlier in 2006 at Second Stage Theatre. The widely popular comedy by Douglas Carter Beane had a successful run at Second Stage and moved to the Cort Theatre. The play closed on February 18, 2007. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... The Little Dog Laughed is a play by Douglas Carter Beane. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... Second Stage Theatre // Director Carole Rothman and actress Robyn Goodman founded Second Stage Theatre in 1979 to give second stagings to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performance runs. ... Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. ... The Cort Theatre is a Broadway theatre. ...

He also played Russel "Rusty" Griswald in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Galecki currently stars on a new CBS show, The Big Bang Theory, which debuted September 24, 2007. He also appears in the music video for the Dave Matthews Band song "Satellite". For the universal model, see Big Bang. ... Dave Matthews Band (also known by the acronym DMB) is a United States-based band, originally formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991 by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dave Matthews. ... Satellite was the third and final single off of the Dave Matthews Band LP Under the Table and Dreaming. ...

References

External links

• Johnny Galecki at the Internet Movie Database
• Johnny Galecki at TV.com
• USA Today article from 1998
• Playbill article about the end of The Little Dog Laughed's run at The Cort Theatre