Tim Bagley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Madison and Trempealeau, Wisconsin, and 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 odd jobs: A butler at the Playboy Mansion, a Mitzi Gaynor dancer, a Page at Paramount Studios, a reader at a court reporting college, and a phone service operator for two pimps named T-99 and Blueberry Muffin. Somewhere in there, he began taking acting classes with Gordon Hunt, Nina Foch, Howard Fine and The Groundlings. He wrote and performed with The Groundlings prestigious main company from 1989 through 1995. During that time Fern Champion and Mark Paladini cast him in his first feature film role as Irv, the mechanic, in The Mask (1994) starring ‘Jim Carrey’. His first series regular role was on Howie Mandel’s Sunny Skies (1995), for Showtime. He has gone on to become one of the foremost character actors in Hollywood, starring in movies, television, and on stage. He resides in Los Angeles.