Ben Koldyke Biography
Ben Koldyke is an actor from the United States most well-known roles are those of Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Lee Standish on Work It, and Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother.
How old is Koldyke? Age
Born Benjamin Koldyke, the actor is 56 years old as of 27 March 2024. He was born in 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Koldyke Family – Education
Through his mother Patricia Blunt Koldyke, he is a member of the family that controls Laird Norton Company, an investment company with roots in the Pacific Northwest timber industry. His father, Martin J. “Mike” Koldyke, is a former investment banker who founded Frontenac Company in Chicago and is a life trustee of Northwestern University. He completed a post-graduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall following his high school graduation. He played quarterback for the football team and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth College in 1991.
Koldyke Wife
Actress Maggie Lawson and Koldyke were wed on August 8, 2015, at his family’s property in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Lawson and Koldyke filed for divorce in the beginning of 2017.
Koldyke How I Met Your Mother
Ben appeared as Don Frank, Robin’s co-anchor and ex-boyfriend in How I Met Your Mother. Don Frank is a seasoned veteran who has worked for at least 38 local morning news teams across the nation. He reads Barney’s blog as well. Don, co-host of Robin’s show, joins her program, Last Cigarette Ever, in 2009. At first thrilled, Robin’s perspective shifts as Don acts impolitely at work—for example, by smoking, playing racketball, and not wearing pants. Don rejects Robin’s request for Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, to attend the event. Don cancels Robin’s invitation to Bloomberg, hoping to show him wrong.
Don invites Robin to a party at his flat in Rabbit or Duck, but Robin declines. Following an argument about ducks and bunnies, Robin discovers Don sitting nude on the couch, which only serves to solidify her hatred of him. Don apologises, but Robin has grown too accustomed to his improper behavior. Don attempts to develop a romantic relationship out of their cordial working relationship with Robin. Marshall agrees on Robin’s behalf, but she has to cancel because she and Barney are splitting up. After Barney ruins his superdate with Anita, Robin and Don go on the date.
The bond between Don and Robin grows, and she eventually moves into Twin Beds with him. But when Robin receives an offer to work as a network anchor at Chicago’s WNKW, she is put to the test. Robin breaks up with Don as a result of turning down the job after seeing a photo of the two of them together.
Koldyke Work It
Koldyke appeared as Lee Standish in the American television sitcom Work It. Work It centers on males fired from a fictitious GM facility in St. Louis, with the idea that men have been impacted more than women by the recession and lack of jobs. A man named Lee Standish applies for a position at Coreco Pharmaceuticals, a corporation that mostly hires female sales representatives.
He gets hired after dressing like a lady. The protagonists gain empathy and learn to keep their true identities hidden from their spouses, daughter Kat, and brother Brian—who, like Lee and Angel, was also laid off. The narrative examines the difficulties of juggling personal and professional obligations in the face of cultural shifts.
Koldyke The Good Place
Ben plays Brent Norwalk in the television series The Good Place. Ben Koldyke plays Brent Norwalk, a series regular in season four of The Good Place. Out of the four persons chosen for the experiment, he is Subject 4. In his former life, Brent was the CEO of a plastics manufacturing company he inherited from his father and grandfather. He was also a self-absorbed, misogynistic, and casually racist. After winning a game of shots with a pilot in a Diamond Elite Club Bar, he requested the pilot whether he could fly his helicopter while intoxicated, which led to their deaths.
In order to persuade Brent that he doesn’t belong in the Good Place, Eleanor and Michael arrange a talk show called “That Was Your Life” in the series. Brent discusses his life story and gets accepted to Princeton, but he subsequently acknowledges that he must be in the “Best Place,” which is just for the “Diamond Elite.” Brent is right, Eleanor and Michael clarify; only the neighbors who score the highest will be able to enter the Best Place. Six Feet Under Par, a novel written by Brent, receives criticism from the other eight neighbors. A fight breaks out when Chidi strikes Brent in the head while trying to talk about the book.
Brent falls into a sinkhole as a result of Michael’s magic performance, apologizes to Chidi, and then gets trapped in place. It is estimated that Brent’s situation has gotten a little worse due to his proximity to Chidi, but he significantly improves after expressing regret to her. When last seen, he was expressing surprise at the detrimental effects of telling women to smile on a monitor in the architects’ office.
Koldyke Movies and TV Shows
Ben has appeared in various films including;
♦ 2016 – The Finest Hours
♦ 2008 – Jedi Gym
♦ 2003 – Say I Do
♦ 2003 – Stuck on You
♦ 2002 – Osama Bin Laden: Behind the Madness
♦ 2001 – Red Zone
♦ 2000 – The Next Best Thing
♦ 2000 – Thirteen Days
TV Shows
♦ 2021 – Rutherford Falls
♦ 2019 – The Good Place
♦ 2018 – Silicon Valley
♦ 2017 – Curb Your Enthusiasm
♦ 2015 – Mr. Robinson
♦ 2015 – Masters of Sex
♦ 2014-2016 – Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street
♦ 2013 – The Newsroom
♦ 2013 – Back in the Game
♦ 2012 – Work It
♦ 2010 – Big Love
♦ 2009 – Boldly Going Nowhere
♦ 2009 – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia