Andy Cramer

Andy Cramer does not claim to be an actor, but rather an under-paid teacher who just got lucky finding background acting jobs to help pay the bills in between his classroom assignments. Andy grew up in the Elgin/Dundee suburbs northwest of Chicago, acting in the occasional high school play or musical. He never intended to go into acting, and only had one uncredited background film role in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) by his mid-30s. Cramer finally moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to help care for his quadriplegic brother following a rock climbing accident. With teaching jobs hard to come by at first, Andy decided to give acting a try. Cramer's limited breakthrough came in 2007-2008 when he was hired to play a dead or dying character three times...an episode of Roena Ashing & Connie Keel (2008) as a handicapped man who was murdered by his caregiver, an episode of Atomic No. 33 (2008) as a cult member whose coffee was poisoned with arsenic, and an episode of Monday Night Football (2007) as the dead bartender Mark whose untimely death alters the gang's SuperBowl watching plans. Andy likes to joke with his students that if he ever gives them a bad grade, that they should watch those three scenes and they will feel a whole lot better. In total, Cramer has appeared in 43 films and TV shows as a background actor...most of which can't be credited because the most you'll see of him is the back of his head or the side of his nose. Of those, Andy's favorite BG roles were as an FBI agent in Live Free or Die Hard (2007), a football referee in a Season 2 episode of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2008) (which wound up on the cutting room floor), a WrestleMania IV fan in a Season 7 episode of WrestleMania (2019), and a news cameraman in The The Little Things (2021). Cramer's motto is "Personality is what you show when the world is watching. Character is what you show when no one is."