Todd Giebenhain

Todd grew up riding horses and playing pickleball on a small farm outside of Newberg, Oregon where he loved performing in every school and community theater production available. After starring in Barefoot In The Park and Eastern Standard at Western Oregon State College his professor encouraged him to drive to Portland for a casting call for the movie Primal Fear, which earned him a callback. He began taking classes from future friend and mentor, beloved casting director Irene Cagen, who eventually helped convince him and his parents he could get work in Los Angeles. His first professional job was a Kaiser Permanente commercial, filmed the the day before he ultimately moved to CA, in the same Portland hospital he had been admitted to exactly one year before for illness which had postponed his move. Once in LA he worked package pickup at Sears while doing background and audience work before booking roles on a kids show, an after school special, and more commercials. These led to recurring roles on Lifetime's first scripted sitcom Maggie, and early single-camera comedy Malcolm in the Middle. Also several guest appearances on projects ranging ranging from Chicken Soup For The Soul to Galaxy Quest to Criminal Minds and True Detective. He would also land the Dodge Ram "Hemi guys" campaign for several popular ads alongside future Last Comic Standing winner Jon Reep. After working with Greg Garcia on an episode of My Name Is Earl he went on to become the sausage-nunchuck wielding grocery employee "Frank" in his followup comedy Raising Hope. More recently he can be seen in Perry Mason, Young Sheldon, and fellow Raising Hope alum Joseph Ahern's film The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood as the intrepid P.I. Gilbert Muldoon. That film also has the distinction of presenting the screen debut of Todd's pet of 20 yrs, African Grey parrot Bruce, in a speaking role. Todd and Bruce live in Los Angeles.