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Matt Willig
No. 77, 71, 76
Position:Offensive tackle
Personal information
Born: (1969-01-21) January 21, 1969 (age 55)
La Mirada, California
Height:6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Weight:315 lb (143 kg)
Career information
High school:St. Paul (CA)
College:USC
Career history
Career highlights and awards
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Matthew Joseph "Matt" Willig (born January 21, 1969) is an American actor and former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He stands 203 cm (6 feet, 8 inches).

Early life

Willig was born in La Mirada, California. He played football and basketball at St. Paul High School (Santa Fe Springs, California). He played college football at the University of Southern California as a member of the 1989 Rose Bowl winning team. He was a public administration major.

Professional football career

Willig played 14 years for the Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Rams, and San Francisco 49ers. Willig was on the winning St. Louis Rams team in Super Bowl XXXIV,[1] and on the losing Carolina Panthers' team in Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Acting career

He was portraying the character Special Agent Simon Cade in season eight of NCIS until the first episode of season nine which was aired on the 20th September 2011. In 2009, he had a supporting role as a brutish caveman tormenting Jack Black and Michael Cera in the motion picture Year One. He appeared as a gang member named Little Chino on the Showtime series, Dexter (2007). He has appeared as a bodyguard named Yuri on the NBC series Chuck, and also has appeared in an episode of My Name is Earl entitled "Bullies". Willig has acted in numerous national commercial campaigns, including a Capital One spot with David Spade, a Bud Light spot, and as an action hero in a Halls commercial. He also appeared in a season 7 episode of Malcolm In the Middle, as Crash, a recovering alcoholic, and had a small role in the 1993 Hong Kong action movie, Full Contact. He appeared in a minor role in iCarly as a truckdriver named "Sledghammer". He made another guest appearance on The Suite Life on Deck as a genie in season 2 episode 22. On Sonny with a Chance in the "Sonny Get Your Goat" episode, he appeared as "Limo", the mode of transportation to Tawni's motel room in a foreign country, and appeared in the Disney XD show Pair of Kings. Willig also had a supporting role in the second episode of Terriers. He played Mike Drake in the critically acclaimed independent thriller The Employer. He also appears in the 2013 film A Resurrection. In 2011, he was on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Billy Abbott's bodyguard, "Tank". More recently he played One Eye, a Mexican drug dealer, in We're The Millers and Gregorek in NBC's series Grimm. Willig also played former NFL player Justin Strzelczyk in the film Concussion.

Also, played Lash on the third season of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Willig voiced The Juggernaut in the Marvel game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Super Bowl XXXVIII". eb.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2004-02-17. Retrieved 2014-01-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "The Deadly Villains of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions - IGN". Uk.comics.ign.com. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
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