Joshua Malina
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| Nickname: |
Joshua Malina / Josh Malina / |
| Known for: |
A Few Good Men, View from the Top, The American President |
| Birth name: |
Joshua Charles Malina |
| Birthday: |
17 January 1966, New York, New York, USA |
| Height: |
5' 9" (1.75 m) |
Trivia

Has a daughter named Isabel, and a son named Avi.

Latest in a string of actors who appeared in _American President, The (1995)_ to join the cast of
The West Wing, following
Martin Sheen,
Nina Siemaszko,
Anna Deavere Smith, and "President" writer
Aaron Sorkin, who had a cameo appearance and later created and is executive producer of
The West Wing.

He has appeared in every
Aaron Sorkin project to date (as of Feb. 2003).

Avid poker player. Played to pay for rent when he struggled as an actor.

One of the executive producers of the new Bravo series
Celebrity Poker Showdown .

Graduated from Yale in 1988, as a Theater Studies major.

Attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York (Class of '84).

Brother in law of fellow
The West Wing cast mate
Timothy Busfield. His wife,
Melissa Merwin is the sister of Busfield's wife Jenny Merwin.

While in the cast of Aaron Sorkin's Broadway play "A Few Good Men," Malina and Sorkin were members of a bowling league composed of cast and crew from Broadway shows. One night, Sorkin bought the team a tray of hamburgers and, while trying to entertain the group, started to choke on a bite of one. Although he did not know how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, Malina attempted to perform it on Sorkin, dislodging the burger and breaking three of Sorkin's ribs in the process.

Malina told an audience at the University of Florida that early in his career, he was disallowed from auditioning for a pizza commercial that took place during Passover because the auditioners wanted him actually to eat the pizza and he refused (because pizza dough is leavened, rendering it not kosher for Passover). He offered to mime eating the pizza instead, but the advertisement's casting agents insisted he had to eat the pizza or he would not be able to audition.
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