Background
Sears was born in Washington, District of Columbia
Sears was born in Washington, District of Columbia
He attended high school at the Landon School in Bethesda, Doctor of Medicine.
He has a recurring role as both Jay Garrick / The Flash and Hunter Zolomon / Zoom in The Flash. And raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He transferred and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in business management in 1999.
Sears" business career was sidetracked when he arrived in New York after graduation.
After his first audition he wound up with a two-year contract role on the daytime series One Life to Live. This "serious" training ironically led to comedy stints on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O"Brien.
Teddy landed his first studio film when he flew himself out to Los Angeles to read for an unrelated project He co-starred on the TNT original series Raising the Bar portraying public defender Richard Patrick Woolsley.
Sears appeared in Joss Whedon"s Dollhouse, the Lifetime original film The Client List, and as Thomas Cole in The Defenders.
In 2013 he joined the cast of the Showtime drama Masters of Sex, about the work of Masters and Johnson. In 2015 Sears begun recurring in The Flash as both Jay Garrick / The Flash and Hunter Zolomon / Zoom, though while portraying Zoom Sears" voice is dubbed over by Tony Todd which was done to deliberately keep Zoom"s identity secret until it"s eventual reveal much later in the season.