David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Steve Brady on the Home Box Office sit-com Sex and the City and for his role as firefighter Christopher Herrmann on National Broadcasting Company"s Chicago Fire.
Background
Eigenberg was born in Manhasset, New York, on Long Island, and grew up in Naperville, Illinois, in a family of six children, all the rest girls. Their mother, Beverly, owns pre-schools, and his father, Harry Eigenberg, is a retired certified public accountants Eigenberg was raised in his mother"s Episcopalian religion (Eigenberg"s father was Jewish).
Career
A younger one is named Betsy, and an older one, Helen. The family moved to Illinois when Eigenberg was four. He acted for the first time at the age of 12 in a community theater production of Kurt Vonnegut"s Happy Birthday, Wanda June.
While playing football at Naperville Central High School, the quarterback on his team was Sean Payton, who became the coach of the New Orleans Saints.
After graduating from high school in 1982, Eigenberg enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, serving for three years (1982–1986), and was Honorably Discharged at the rank of Lance Corporal. His first recurring role was on Homicide: Life on the Street where he portrayed a copycat sniper before acting in The Practice.
He voiced the role of Nermal in the movie Garfield. He also made an appearance on an episode of Emergency during the show"s final season.
He made an appearance in the movie Daybreak as well.
He appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt, and in Columbia Broadcasting System"s NCIS as Ted Bankston, a former National Security Agency Analyst who was suspected of mishandling classified information which was eventually proved to be true. Eigenberg appeared as a suspect in the 6th episode called Inner Child of the television series Raines which first aired on April 20, 2007. In March 2011, he appeared in Season 3 of Castle as Peter Connelly in the episode One Life to Lose.
He appeared in the May 16, 2012 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit entitled Strange Beauty.
In the fall of 2012, Eigenberg joined the cast of National Broadcasting Company"s Chicago Fire as firefighter Christopher Herrmann.