Michael Gladis

Best-known for playing bohemian advertising copywriter Paul Kinsey in "Mad Men" (AMC, 2007-2015), Michael Gladis also enjoyed recurring roles in action parody "Eagleheart" (Adult Swim, 2011-14), legal drama "Reckless" (CBS, 2014) and crime remake "Feed the Beast" (AMC, 2016-). Born in Houston, TX in 1977, Gladis began acting at a private all-girls school in need of male performers, and went on to study Theater at the State University of New York at New Paltz before making his screen debut as senior seaman Yevgeny Borzenkov in submarine thriller "K-19: The Widowmaker" (2002). Gladis spent the next decade focusing on television, landing his first regular gig on "Third Watch" (NBC, 1999-2005) as rookie paramedic Eugene Rossi in 2003, making one-off appearances in numerous hit shows including "The Good Wife" (CBS, 2009-2016), "House" (Fox, 2004-2012) and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999-), and enjoying a multi-season stint on period drama "Mad Men" (AMC, 2007-2015) as Paul Kinsey, a Sterling Cooper copywriter renowned for his Orson Welles-esque appearance who reluctantly converted to Hare Krishna. Following his exit from the show, Gladis made a cameo as a club owner in biopic" J. Edgar" (2011), was cast as the paternal police chief in the spoof "Eagleheart" (Adult Swim, 2011-14), and guested on "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS, 2005-2014), "Justified" (FX, 2010-15) and "The Mentalist" (CBS, 2008-2015). Gladis then returned to the film world to executive produce and star in crime comedy "Armed Response" (2013), portray Jessie Misskelley Jr.'s defense attorney Dan Stidham in West Memphis Three tale "Devil's Knot" (2013) and play LARPer King Diamond in comedy horror "Knights of Badassdom" (2013). After a six-episode stint as Deputy Chief Holland Knox in the short-lived "Reckless" (CBS, 2014), Gladis showed up as a vengeful whistleblower in psychological thriller "Not Safe for Work" (2014), biologist Nate Malone in sci-fi series "Extant" (CBS, 2014-15) and Lt. Matias in "Terminator: Genysis" (2015). Guest parts on "House of Lies" (Showtime, 2012-16), "The Librarians" (TNT, 2014-) and "Elementary" (CBS, 2012-) then followed before Gladis was cast as the softly-spoken but fearsome teeth-pulling mobster Patrick Woichik in crime drama "Feed the Beast" (AMC, 2016-)., an English-language remake of Danish series "Bankerot" (DR1, 2014-).