John Michael Higgins

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BIRTHDAY

February 12, 1963

Boston, MA

RECENT CREDITS

The Ugly Truth (FILM) Jul. 24, 2009

Fired Up (FILM) Feb. 20, 2009

Yes Man (FILM) Dec. 19, 2008

Fred Claus (FILM) Nov. 9, 2007

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (TV) Jul. 22, 2007

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BIOGRAPHY

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A military brat who moved myriad times while growing up, this boyishly handsome player began acting in regional theater as a child and continued to pursue an entertainment career after graduating college. Although he has played a striking number of gay roles — a flamboyant dog owner in Best in Show, real-life tennis star Bill Tilden in the off-Broadway play Big Bill, a Catholic priest dying of AIDS in a controversial episode of Nothing Sacred that never aired on network TV — Higgins is a straight actor who masterfully embodies over-the-top characters of all orientations. His breakthrough role came in 1996, when he did a fine (if at times grotesque) impression of David Letterman in the TV-movie The Late Shift. While the real late-night talk-show host despised Higgins' work, it got the actor noticed and he quickly became a perennial small-screen guest star, usually playing characters that were bitchy, uptight or both. His uproarious turn in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary Best in Show jump-started his film career, and he subsequently appeared in supporting roles in both blockbusters (Blade: Trinity) and indies (Guest's A Mighty Wind).

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