Josh McDermitt (born June 4, 1978) is an American film and television actor and comedian. He is best known for playing
Eugene Porter
Eugene Porter, later revealed as Eugene Hermann Porter in the television series, is a fictional character from the comic book series '' The Walking Dead'' and is portrayed by Josh McDermitt beginning in the fourth season of the American televis ...
on
AMC
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's ''
The Walking Dead''. In 2006, McDermitt appeared on ''
Last Comic Standing
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'' as a contestant. McDermitt had a main role on the sitcom ''
Retired at 35
''Retired at 35'' is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after ''Hot in Cleve ...
'' from 2011 to 2012, playing the character Brandon.
Early life
McDermitt was born on , in
Phoenix, Arizona
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.
He resides in
Los Angeles, California
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, where he is a member of the improvisational comedy group Robert Downey Jr Jr.
Career
McDermitt began his career in entertainment by calling in to a local radio show in Phoenix, Tim & Willy, at a young age. Calling in routinely, under the guise of different voices, McDermitt kept listeners and Tim & Willy entertained. Not long afterward, he began working with them as a producer, following them to both
KNIX &
KMLE
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.
McDermitt was a semi-finalist in the fourth season of ''
Last Comic Standing
''Last Comic Standing'' was an American reality television talent competition show on NBC that aired from June 1, 2003, to August 9, 2010, then again in 2014 and 2015. The goal of the program was to select a comedian from an initially large group ...
''. He played the role of Larry in the 2009 TV movie ''Rehab for Rejects''. McDermitt then starred in the
TV Land
TV Land is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through its networks division. Originally a spinoff of Nick at Nite consisting exclusively of classic television shows, the channel now airs a combination of recent and cla ...
sitcom
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''
Retired at 35
''Retired at 35'' is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after ''Hot in Cleve ...
'', playing the role of Brandon. The show ran for two seasons from 2011–2012, before being canceled.
In October 2013, it was announced by producers that McDermitt had been cast as
Eugene Porter
Eugene Porter, later revealed as Eugene Hermann Porter in the television series, is a fictional character from the comic book series '' The Walking Dead'' and is portrayed by Josh McDermitt beginning in the fourth season of the American televis ...
, a character from ''
The Walking Dead'' comic book, for the
fourth season of
the TV series of the same name. He was a main cast member from the
fifth until the
eleventh
In music or music theory, an eleventh is the note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the eleventh. The interval can be also described as a compound fourth, spanning an octave plus a f ...
and final season.
Filmography
Video games
References
External links
*
Josh McDermitt on TVLand.com*
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1978 births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
American male comedians
American male film actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male television actors
American people of Dutch descent
American people of Portuguese descent
Male actors from Phoenix, Arizona
21st-century American comedians