Brian Edward Baker (born July 16, 1967, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor best known for his recurring role as a trenchcoated spokesman in Sprint's television commercials.
Baker began his acting career at the age of eleven as a member of a now-defunct community film enthusiast club known as Cinekyd, based in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, where youngsters acted in, directed, edited, and produced amateur movies under adult supervisi...
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Brian Edward Baker (born July 16, 1967, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor best known for his recurring role as a trenchcoated spokesman in Sprint's television commercials.
Baker began his acting career at the age of eleven as a member of a now-defunct community film enthusiast club known as Cinekyd, based in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, where youngsters acted in, directed, edited, and produced amateur movies under adult supervision. In Chicago, Illinois, following college, he studied at The Second City improvisational comedy troupe, while also working as a stand-up comedian and in the Seanachai Theatre Company. To make ends meet he waited tables at John's Place in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.
Baker moved to Los Angeles, California in 1999, and within six weeks, had landed the role that would be his big break—The Sprint Guy. Although originally contracted to appear in only 5 ads, the overwhelming popularity of the commercials led to Baker's appearance in 155...
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