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Matt Czuchry 
Czuchry at basketball game, Germany, 2008Born Matthew Charles Czuchry
May 20, 1977
Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.Occupation Actor Matthew Charles "Matt" Czuchry (pronounced /ˈzʊkri/; born May 20, 1977) is an American actor. He portrayed Logan Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls and in 2009 began co-starring as Cary Agos on the CBS television series The Good Wife.
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Biography
Family
Czuchry was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee.[1] His father, Andrew Czuchry, is a professor at East Tennessee State University, and his mother, Sandra, is a homemaker.[1] He is of Ukrainian descent on his father's side.[2] He has two brothers and a sister.[1]
Education
He graduated from Science Hill High School in 1995.[1] Czuchry graduated with honors in 1999 from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science.[1] He won the Mr. College of Charleston pageant in 1998.[1] Czuchry attended college on a tennis scholarship, captained the men's tennis team, and was an NCAA ranked player in the Southern Conference
Television roles
He took one theater class in college, and his professor encouraged him to change his major to drama.[1] It was during his first role in The WB's Young Americans that he met Kate Bosworth, whom he dated from 2000-02.[3] He became better known in the role of Logan Huntzberger on the television show Gilmore Girls on The CW. Prior to this role, Czuchry had a recurring guest role on the CBS drama Hack and starred in the pilot of UPN's Jake 2.0. He also guested on Freaks and Geeks, 7th Heaven, The Practice, Veronica Mars and Friday Night Lights.
Czuchry co-stars on CBS's hit series The Good Wife as young, ambitious Harvard-educated lawyer Cary Agos.[4] In the first season, Cary and Alicia Florrick (played by Julianna Margulies) are associates in the same Chicago law firm competing for one permanent position. At the end of the season, Alicia wins the competition and the position. When the second season starts, Cary is working for the state's attorney office, thus putting him and Alicia on opposite sides of the courtroom.
Films
He appeared in the movies Eight Legged Freaks and Slap Her... She's French. Czuchry played the lead role in the film adaptation of Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.[5]
Theater
From September 11 to October 28, 2007, Czuchry performed in Wendy Wasserstein's play Third opposite Christine Lahti at the Geffen Playhouse.[6]
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes 2000 Freaks and Geeks Teenage Guy #1 Episode: "We've Got Spirit" 2000 Opposite Sex Kurt Episode: "The Field Trip Episode" 2000 Young Americans Sean McGrail 5 episodes 2002 Swimming Upstream Morris Bird III 2002 Slap Her... She's French Kyle Fuller 2002 The Practice Skip Hyman Episode: "Fire Proof" 2002 Eight Legged Freaks Bret 2002 A Midsummer Night's Rave Evan 2002 7th Heaven Carl Episode: "A Cry for Help" 2003 Jake 2.0 Darin Metcalf Episode: "The Tech" 2003 Advantage Hart Short film 2003-2004 Hack Jamie Farrel 12 episodes 2004 Dark Shadows Willie Loomis TV movie 2004 Em & Me Chase 2004-2007 Gilmore Girls Logan Huntzberger 59 episodes 2006 Hooked Scotty Short film 2006 Justice League Brainiac 5 (voice) Episode: "Far from Home" 2006 Veronica Mars Charlie Stone / Norman Phipps Episode: "Charlie Don't Surf" 2007 Gravity Ray 2008 Friday Night Lights Chris Kennedy 4 episodes 2009 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Tucker Max 2009-present The Good Wife Cary Agos Series regular 2010 The 19th Wife Jordan TV movie References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Matt Czuchry". buddyTV. http://www.buddytv.com/info/matt-czuchry-info.aspx. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^ Yuan, Jada (February 8, 2011). "The Good Wife's Matt Czuchry on Cary’s Sex Life and How to Pronounce His Last Name". nymag.com. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/the_good_wifes_matt_czuchry_on.html. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
- ^ "Kate Bosworth Biography". People. http://www.people.com/people/kate_bosworth/biography. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ Ratledge, Ingela (May 3, 2011). "A Day Out With The Good Wife's Matt Czuchry". tvguide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Matt-Czuchry-Good-Wife-1032623.aspx. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ Three In Can for "Beer In Hell"
- ^ Hernandez, Ernio (September 19, 2007). "Wasserstein's Third, with Christine Lahti, Opens in L.A. Sept. 19". Playbill.com. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/111137-Wassersteins-Third-with-Christine-Lahti-Opens-in-LA-Sept-19. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
External links
Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Actors from Tennessee
- American people of Ukrainian descent
- American film actors
- American television actors
- People from Kingsport, Tennessee
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