Profile of the Day: Richard Dean Anderson

Richard Dean Anderson

Do you remember watching MacGyver? Today star Richard Dean Anderson turns 65.

Anderson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Stuart Jay Anderson and Jocelyn Rhae Carter. In the early days of his career, he worked as a whale handler in a marine mammal show, a musician in medieval dinner theater and as a street mime and juggler. He finally received his first role on the daytime soap General Hospital.

He rose to fame after snagging the lead role in the hit television series MacGyver. The show ran for seven seasons and made a lasting impact on popular culture. The term “MacGyver” has even made its way into the English vernacular, often used as a verb meaning “to use ingenuity to fix or remedy a problem using only the tools available at hand.”

Later, Anderson went on to star in the long-running sci-fi series Stargate SG-1, a spin-off of the 1994 film Stargate.

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