Biography

Tim Bagley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Madison and Trempealeau (Wisconsin) and in Niles, Michigan, with his parents, Carol and Elwyn, and four siblings (Anne, Patrick, Kit, and Dan). After high school, Tim moved to southern California to perform with the singing group "The Young Americans," while majoring in Art with a minor in Psychology at California State University Fullerton.

After college came a string of picaresque odd jobs: butler at the Playboy Mansion, a Mitzi Gaynor dancer, a page at Paramount Studios, and a reader at a court-reporting college. He began taking acting classes with Gordon Hunt, Nina Foch, Howard Fine, and The Groundlings, for whom he wrote and performed from 1989-95.

Fern Champion and Mark Paladini cast him in his first feature film role as Irv, the mechanic, in The Mask (1994). His first series regular role was on Howie Mandel's Sunny Skies (1995) for Showtime. He went on to become one of the foremost character actors in films, television, and theatre.
- IMDb mini biography by: Abe Handler/Robert Sieger

As an actor, especially my age, very few times do they want to see me in a romantic situation.

A lot of gay people go through this process of figuring out how to untrain what has been told to them by schools, by churches, by synagogues, by the government, by everybody - their parents, their friends, their bosses. I always feel like we're all in various stages of self-acceptance. It's taken me many years to get to the point where I'm just really good with how I am.

When people ask me things that I'm shocked they're even asking, I always answer politely and honestly and with appreciation that they're trying to understand and connect.