On the small screen, Willie Garson stars as Mozzie in the hit USA Network series, White Collar. The talented Garson is rarely at a loss for work, appearing in over 250 TV episodes of a wide variety of programming, and over 70 feature films. His unorthodox bald and bespectacled look won over fans on “Sex and the City,” where he played Carrie’s gay best friend, Stanford Blatch. He is also well known as Henry Coffield on “NYPD Blue” and recently re-teamed with HBO and David Milch on “John From Cincinnati”.
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Born and raised in New Jersey, he started training at The Actors Institute in New York when he was only 13, before majoring in theater and psychology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. After graduation, Garson found his love for acting outweighed his psychology studies and landed guest roles on “Cheers,” “Family Ties,” “thirtysomething” and “L.A. Law.” He has stayed busy playing several recurring characters in a wide array of TV projects, such as “Just Shoot Me,” “Spin City,” “Ally McBeal,” “The Practice,” “Stargate SG-1,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “The X-Files,” “Medium” and “Pushing Daisies.”
On the big screen, Garson has collaborated with the Farrelly Brothers in their films “Kingpin,” “There’s Something about Mary” and “Fever Pitch.” Garson has appeared in the quirky ensemble comedies “Soapdish,” “Mars Attacks” and “Being John Malkovich”, and is often used by such varied directors as Michael Bay, Mike Nichols and Spike Jonze.
At home on the stage as much as he is on television and in film, Garson continues to perform with various bicoastal theater companies in NY and LA, and was a member Naked Angels, The Manhattan Theater Club, the Roundabout Theater and the Geffen Playhouse. He’s also involved in community and charity organizations from Big Brothers to Young Artists United. He has read to first graders weekly through the Screen Actor’s Guild “Bookpals” program, and is involved with AMFAR, Aspen Youth Experience, LA’s Alliance for Children’s Rights and Camp Joslin Diabetes Center in Massachusetts.
Aside from acting on TV and the big screen, Garson also found success as a celebrity poker player. In 2003, “Evil Willie” (a nickname given to Garson by Don Cheadle for his fierce card playing) won the very first episode of Texas Hold ‘Em on Bravo’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown,” and continues to play in tournaments worldwide and through the World Poker Tour. Garson recently adopted a son and now resides in Los Angeles and New York.
Willie Garson Stars in WHOLE DAY DOWN, A Web Series for the ArtPocalypse
“Patrick Breen & Tai Fauci create offbeat new web series with a unique perspective on Art and the Apocalypse”
Fauci Productions, Inc. proudly announces the launch of its inaugural comedy web series, WHOLE DAY DOWN (wholedaydown.tv), starring Willie Garson (Sex and the City, “White Collar”), Patrick Breen (Men in Black, Galaxy Quest) and Elisa Donovan (Clueless, “In Gayle We Trust”).
WHOLE DAY DOWN is a satirical documentation of the reinvention of Willie Garson and Patrick Breen, playing themselves (more or less), as two middle-aged actors pursuing their passion for art and commerce as they attempt to open their own art gallery. They find themselves enmeshed in a surreal series of misadventures, as they weather the typical – and not-so-typical – pitfalls of opening the gallery: A demonic receptionist, a fetishistic landlord, an awkward love pentagon, a roster of nihilistic artists, and the realization that the entire venture may be the ornate doorway through which the hounds of hell are unleashed.
“We take a sincere look at mid life career change. And ineptitude’s power when confronted with overwhelming evil, criticism and bad manners, ” says Patrick Breen. “We also wanted to delve into the world of emerging artists. Put their larger than life stories of ambition, hunger, and passion on the one inch screen. These are enormous tales of struggle and triumph perfectly suited for telephone viewing.”
The series, is created by Breen and Tai Fauci (“Palisades Pool Party”), premieres online on the independent video network blip.tv, Youtube and can now be viewed on its official site: wholedaydown.tv This savage, outrageous series is black comedy in its purest (and impurest) form, an unbridled showcase for the eccentric and dark humor of creators Breen and Fauci.
“If “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “The Twilight Zone” had a baby, WHOLE DAY DOWN would be its evil twin,” describes Fauci. “The show is offbeat, oddball and WTF. We have an anything goes mentality. We’re quite bonkers actually.”
Garson, playing a down-and-out version of himself, brings impeccable timing and improvisational-comedy skills to the role. Garson is best known for playing Carrie’s gay BFF, Standford Blatch on “Sex & the City.” Breen, no stranger to improvisation himself, co-founded the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York. This past summer, Patrick starred in the Tony winning revival of The Normal Heart on Broadway with Jim Parsons and Ellen Barkin.
Playing Patrick’s wife, Elisa Donovan brings sexy and sometimes awkward humor to the table. Donovan, a web series icon in her own right from starring in NBC’s “In Gayle We Trust” is most often recognized for her turn as bad girl Amber in the classic teen flick, Clueless.
WHOLE DAY DOWN also stars Karen Austin (Summer Rental, Jagged Edge, “Murder One”), Dan Fauci (Bloodsucking Freaks) and guest stars Shiri Appleby (“Life Unexpected,” “Roswell”) and Jon Tenney (“The Closer,” You Can Count on Me).
