Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.
My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.
I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.
I have eight years of experience in Spain.
I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'
Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.
I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.
I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
I'm a lawyer by training, of course.
Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.
My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.
I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize.
I've been on sets my whole life.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.
I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.
