Jason Gedrick

An American actor best known for his work on the television series Murder One and Boomtown as well as the motion picture Iron Eagle Gedrick began his career as an extra in films such as Bad Boys 1983 and Risky Business 1983 After roles in The Heavenly Kid 1985 Iron Eagle 1986 Promised Land 1987 with director Michael Hoffman Iron Eagle II 1988 in an uncredited role for the first few minutes of the movie Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Backdraft 1991 and Crossing the Bridge 1992 Gedrick appeared in television series such as Class of 96 1993 and Sweet Justice 1994 In 1994 Gedrick starred in the film The Force with Yasmine Bleeth and Kim Delaney Gedricks big break was in Steven Bochcos innovative 1995 series Murder One The series followed the trial of Gedricks character badboy actor Neil Avedon alleged to have murdered a 15yearold girl The series which also starred talent such as Daniel Benzali Patricia Clarkson Mary McCormack Dylan Baker and Stanley Tucci was a runaway success Due to this a second season was commissioned Due to network concerns the new season featured several small cases rather than one big one Anthony LaPaglia stepped in to replace the cast such as Benzali Tucci and Gedrick who had left and the series was canceled midway through its second season Gedricks next major project was the threehour TV movie The Third Twin a 1997 thriller based on the bestselling 1996 novel by British writer Ken Follett Gedrick plays a university employee accused of rape whose friend later discovers he has a twinand actually several more twins cloned by an evil millionaire university donor and biomedical technology CEO played to the hilt by Larry Hagman aka Dallass J R Ewing Gedrick next took roles in television series such as EZ Streets 1996 Falcone 2000 and The Beast 2001 None of which were major successes In 1999 he guest starred on Ally McBeal as the hot car wash guy Also appearing in Mario Puzos 1997 miniseries The Last Don and in its sequel The Last Don II Gedrick returned to television screens as Tom Turcotte in 2002s Boomtown The series which also starred Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough was a moderate success but ratings plummeted particularly after the second season suffered a format change and Boomtown was cancelled In 2003 Gedrick played Andrew Luster the infamous rapist in a Lifetime movie based on his trial A Date with Darkness Gedrick is part of the cast of the 2006 NBC television series Windfall also starring Luke Perry and Gedricks former Boomtown alumni Lana Parrilla In 2007 Gedrick again starred alongside Donnie Wahlberg in the AE original movie Kings of South Beach He is also the new love interest at Scavos Pizzeria in Desperate Housewives Season 3 and 4 on ABC Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Gedrick licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia