Education
Dartmouth College.
Dartmouth College.
Originally a high school English teacher and football coach in Chicago, Koldyke"s acting career received a jump start after a chance encounter with lieutenant"s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator-star, Rob McElhenney. Regulars at the same Venice cafe, he covered Rob"s tab with a note that said he "thought his show was fantastic," and this exchange led to Koldyke"s first (of many) television pilots, Boldly Going Nowhere for Fox, a few years later. In 2012, Koldyke starred as the lead character in the short-lived American Broadcasting Company comedy series Work lieutenant and later guest starred in Home Box Office"s The Newsroom.
2013 saw him star in another American Broadcasting Company sitcom, Back in the Game, opposite James Caan and Maggie Lawson.
Koldyke will be seen on the big screen early next year in a supporting role for Disney"s The Finest Hours alongside Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Eric Bana, and Ben Foster. Koldyke was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Kenilworth.
He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he earned a bachelor"s degree in English and was a quarterback for the football team On August 8, 2015, Koldyke married actress Maggie Lawson in a ceremony at his family"s ranch in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
His father, Martin J. "Mike" Koldyke, is a former investment banker who founded Frontenac Company in Chicago and is a life trustee of Northwestern University. Through his mother, Patricia Blunt Koldyke, he is a member of the family that controls Laird Norton Company, an investment company with roots in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest.