Date of Birth : Aug 19th 1969
Perry moved from Ottawa to Los Angeles to pursue acting. For high school, he attended The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks. While at Buckley, Perry was featured as George Gibbs in “Our Town” and appeared as a junior in a production of “The Miracle Worker”. Patty Duke attended and praised for the young Perry’s convincing role as Helen’s brother Jimmy. He was also featured in “The Sound of Music” as a junior. In his senior year, director Tim Hillman had planned a production of “The Elephant Man” specifically to feature Perry as John Merrick along with Vanessa Marshall, and future Les Miserables star Lisa Capps. He then got his professional break at age 18. On being cast in “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon” with River Phoenix, Perry withdrew from Elephant Man and ended his high school acting career. Perry also pursued improv comedy at the LA Connection in Sherman Oaks while still in high school, quickly becoming a featured performer.
The program was hugely successful and Perry, along with his co-stars, gained wide renown among television viewers.
As well as his successful career on Friends, Perry has appeared in films such as Fools Rush In (alongside father, John Bennett Perry and Salma Hayek), Three to Tango, The Whole Nine Yards (alongside Bruce Willis) and its sequel The Whole Ten Yards, and Serving Sara.
After Friends wrapped up, Perry made his directorial debut in an episode of the 4th season of Bill Lawrence’s sitcom Scrubs (which he also guest starred in, as “Murray Marks” an operator of a small airport’s traffic control team. Murray is asked to donate a kidney to his father Gregory, played by Perry’s real father).
CAREER
17 Again ( 2009 )
The Whole Ten Yards ( 2004 )
Serving Sara ( 2002 )
The Kid ( 2000 )
Three To Tango ( 2000 )
The Whole Nine Yards ( 2000 )
She’s out of Control ( 1990 )