TJ Hassan

TJ Hassan spent most of his younger years moving from city to city overseas until finally settling in the US in 1993 He is the middle child of 7 children of a Microbiologist father and a stay at home mother TJ worked in corporate management and played music locally with several bands until he caught the acting bug in 2007 after enrolling in an improvisational class as means to overcome a fear of public speaking which he faced due to a recent job promotion Several staged productions followed including the 3rd Space Theatre production of Chicago Cab 1997 and joining the Atlanta improv comedy troupe Whole World Theatre In 2008 Tony Award winning director Jerry Zaks cast TJ in the biopic Who Do You Love 2008 as American blues musician Lonnie Johnson opposite Alessandro Nivola and Chi McBride In 2009 TJ decided to leave Corporate America to peruse acting fulltime Shortly after he landed a recurring role on the Lifetime original series Army Wives 2007 TV Series and several bit parts including Lottery Ticket 2010I and For Colored Girls 2010 In 2010 he was cast as one of the lead characters in the Comedy Central produced series Mlarky 2010 TV Series opposite Dan Fogler Gilbert Gottfried and Jeffrey Ross He was later offered roles on the ABC Family film My Future Boyfriend 2011 TV as Fred Smatters a Secret Service agent and The ChangeUp 2011 opposite Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds