Set during the Great Depression, the drama followed the adventures of a traveling freak show, with DeKay cast as Clayton Jones, a former professional baseball player reduced by injury to working as a roustabout.
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Series creator Daniel Knauf was impressed enough to remember the actor's work so included him in the ensemble cast of his HBO series "Carnivàle" (2003-05). In 2001, DeKay had appeared in "Honey Vicarro," an unsold pilot for a detective series starring Jenny McCarthy. Narrowly losing out on a lead role in the indie smash "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (2002), DeKay returned to episodic television and guest roles on Aaron Sorkin's "Sports Night" (ABC, 1998-2000), "Friends" (NBC, 1994-2004), "Ally McBeal" (Fox, 1997-2002) and "Malcolm in the Middle" (Fox, 2000-06). The following year, the actor appeared in Mark Hanlon's disturbing independent film "Buddy Boy" (1999), played a corrupt cop who meets an explosive end in "The Crow: Salvation" (2000), and popped up as an FBI agent in Dominic Sena's big-budget crime caper "Swordfish" (2001). During this time, DeKay made his feature film debut as a frontier bartender in Christopher Guest's "Almost Heroes" (1998), the final film of comedian Chris Farley. In a dozen episodes of the Fox family drama "Party of Five" (1994-2000), DeKay played physician Paul Thomas, whose unhappy marriage to series regular Kristen Bennett was maintained as a subplot through the fourth and fifth seasons.
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Subsequent TV work followed, with his most memorable assignment being the conscientious Bizarro Jerry in two episodes of the long-running NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" (1989-1998). As villainous corporate profiteer Larry Deon, DeKay was called upon to hatch a series of world-threatening schemes, including pushing an iceberg toward the Middle East to flood the Saudi desert.
He debuted on national television on the NBC science fiction adventure series "SeaQuest 2032" (1993-96) in 1995. The supporting role of a jazz era inventor was a feather in DeKay's professional cap, but critics were unimpressed and the production closed after only 45 performances. Transferring to Rutgers University in New Jersey, he earned a master's degree in fine arts in 1990.Īfter gaining experience in regional and off-Broadway theatre, DeKay made his Broadway debut in 1992 in a revival of George Kelly's 1924 comedy "The Show Off," produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company. His plans were put on hold indefinitely when the siren call of the stage compelled DeKay to enroll in the directing program at Syracuse University. Graduating from LeMoyne in 1985, he worked for a casket company while preparing to pursue a career either in business or law. Between classes, DeKay pitched in at the Firehouse Theatre, a converted fire station-turned-performance space, where he built sets and played the occasional role. In 1981, an athletic scholarship brought him to the private LeMoyne College in Syracuse, where he majored in business and minored in philosophy. One of two sons of James and Jill DeKay, who later divorced, DeKay staged backyard plays with his younger brother and performed in student dramatics at Lansing High School. Timothy Robert DeKay was born on June 12, 1963, in the upstate New York town of Lansing, near Ithaca.
Dividing his time between the stage, television and the big screen, DeKay was seen in supporting roles in Tim Hunter's "Control" (2004), Victor Salva's "Peaceful Warrior" (2006) and the 2008 "Get Smart" remake starring Steve Carell before he returned to primetime as one-half of the buddy equation on "White Collar." His collegiate handsomeness agreeably coarsening as he neared age 50, DeKay brought a sense of experience and gravitas to the role of federal agent Peter Burke, capping but hardly closing the book on the career of a seasoned character actor with a leading man's good looks. Shots at recurring roles on weekly series came with HBO's "Carnivàle" (2003-05) and "Tell Me You Love Me" (2007-09), both of which hit the airwaves with considerable buzz only to fold after two seasons. DeKay honed his craft in regional and off-Broadway theatre and paid his journeyman dues on episodic television playing lawyers, doctors, detectives, corporate executives and the occasional Machiavellian schemer.
Until he won the role of a veteran FBI agent paired by necessity with a con artist partner in the hit series "White Collar" (USA Network, 2009-14), actor Tim DeKay was best known for playing Bizarro Jerry, the sincere and impeccably mannered doppelganger of Jerry Seinfeld in two episodes of the comedian's long-running NBC sitcom.
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