Brian Haley

After his tour in the Army he began doing stand-up in his native Seattle and quickly rose to headliner status. In 1988 he moved to Los Angeles where he had moderate success, winning a "Hollywood's Hottest New Comic" competition, appearing on several cable comedy shows such as An Evening At The Improv and was picked up by ABC television for a one year holding deal. But it was his proverbial big break on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1990 that kicked his career into high gear. His appearance led to a flood of television and movie roles and an HBO comedy special.
More recently he is being cast in dramatic roles, playing a detective in the Coen Brothers movie The Man Who Wasn't There and Martin Scorsese's The Departed and Police Captain Hill in Tony Scott's The Taking of Pelham 123. In 2003 he was cast in the television pilot for the CBS show The Brotherhood of Poland New Hampshire as one of three brothers along with Randy Quaid and John Caroll Lynch, but was replaced later by Chris Penn due to story restructuring. In 2006 he returned to stand-up comedy after a long hiatus and currently lives in New York.