Background
Suplee was born in Manhattan, the son of Debbie and Bill Suplee (who later played Willie, the one-eyed mailman, in My Name Is Earl).
Suplee was born in Manhattan, the son of Debbie and Bill Suplee (who later played Willie, the one-eyed mailman, in My Name Is Earl).
The first major role Suplee landed was as Willam Black in Mallrats, directed by Kevin Smith, alongside future My Name is Earl costar Jason Lee. He also appeared briefly in the independent Kevin Smith View-Askew produced Drawing Flies. Smith himself recast both Suplee and Lee in later films Chasing Amy and Dogma.
They both make cameos in Clerks World War II At the same time as the filming of Mallrats, Suplee also had a recurring role as Frankie "The Enforcer" Stechino in Boy Meets World, from 1994 to 1998.
Suplee also had a cameo in the Home Box Office television series Entouragein the fictional movie Queens Boulevard. In 2014, he was cast in the television Land original sitcom Jennifer Falls, which reunited him with My Name Is Earl co-star, Jamie Pressly.
In March 2011, Suplee was featured on TMZ on television with a recent weight loss of 200+ pounds.