Greg Louganis

Gregory Efthimios Greg Louganis luːˈɡeɪnɪs born January 29 1960 is an American Olympic diver LGBT activist and author who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on both the springboard and platform He is the only male and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games He has been called both the greatest American diver and probably the greatest diver in history Louganis had been a theatre major in college and in the late 1980s and 1990s Louganis acted in several in movies including Touch Me in 1997 In 1993 he played the role of Darius in an OffBroadway production of the play Jeffrey In 1995 he starred for six weeks in the OffBroadway production of Dan Butlers onemanshow about gay life The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me taking over from Butler himself In the play he portrayed 14 different characters In 2008 he appeared in the film Watercolors in the role of Coach Brown a swimming instructor in a high school In 2012 he appeared in the penultimate episode of the second season of IFCs comedy Portlandia playing himself