- Born
- Birth nameEric Allen Stonestreet
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Eric Stonestreet was born on September 9, 1971 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Loft (2014), Modern Family (2009) and Almost Famous (2000).
- ParentsVince StonestreetJamey Stonestreet
- Tina Fey was his teacher at Chicago's Second City.
- Part owner of Kansas City Royals baseball team.
- Before becoming interested in acting while in college, Stonestreet was studying criminal justice to be a prison administrator. He grew up near the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, and in his youth had a lot of exposure to the idea of making a career working in the penal system.
- Was in the 2001 Super Bowl ad for Pepsi with fellow Kansan Bob Dole.
- A member of ImprovOlympic, an improv theatre in LA and Chicago
- I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
- My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
- Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.
- I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.
- When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
- Modern Family (2009) - $190,000 per episode
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