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When prolific performer Joe Flanigan
guest-stars on a series, he usually comes to stay — he's been a recurring player on
everything from Providence to Profiler. Initially best known for his series role as a
college student who has a romance with divorced older woman Georgie (Patricia Kalember) in a season of the NBC hit
Sisters, Flanigan has also starred in the WB police drama The Force and opposite James Garner in the CBS Supreme Court drama
First Monday. Flanigan grew up near Reno, Nev., on a small ranch where his parents
still live. At 14 he attended boarding school in Ojai, Calif., where he played Stanley
Kowalski in a school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Later, as a history major at
the University of Colorado, Flanigan appeared in the title role of Coriolanus and studied
in Paris through the Junior Year Abroad program. Pursuing a writing career after
graduation, he briefly worked for Interview and Town & Country magazines in New York
before trying acting on the advice of friends. After studying at the Neighborhood
Playhouse, where he played Eddie in Rabbit Trap, Flanigan relocated to Los Angeles.
There he broke into television with roles in the TV-movies Danielle Steel's Family
Album and Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan, and made his big-screen
debut in the date-rape drama A Reason to Believe. Afterward came his breakthrough role as
Brian Cordovas on the 1995-96 season of Sisters. Flanigan has guested on series including
Murphy Brown, Dawson's Creek, Cupid (recurring as Alex, the hero's romantic rival), Birds
of Prey, Tru Calling and C.S.I. Miami, and has starred in the NBC pilots Man Made, The
Precinct, Sherman's March and Club Paradise. His movies include Garry Marshall's The Other Sister, Silent Men,
Farewell to Harry and the recent Thought Crimes, as well as the 2003 telefilm 111 Gramercy
Park.
An outdoors enthusiast, Flanigan enjoys skiing, rock climbing, surfing, tennis,
mountain biking and horseback riding. When not working on the Vancouver set of Stargate
Atlantis, he and his wife, painter Katherine Flanigan, make their home in a 1926 English
Tudor in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles.
Source: filmbug.com
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