Robert Machado (born August 25, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Todd 'The Todd' Quinlan in the American comedy-drama Scrubs.
His father is a lawyer in New York. His brother, Michael, is a novelist living in Manhattan.
Maschio was born in New York but grew up in Syosset, Long Island where he attended Syosset High School. After high school, he enrolled at Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1988. In his ...
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Robert Machado (born August 25, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Todd 'The Todd' Quinlan in the American comedy-drama Scrubs.
His father is a lawyer in New York. His brother, Michael, is a novelist living in Manhattan.
Maschio was born in New York but grew up in Syosset, Long Island where he attended Syosset High School. After high school, he enrolled at Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1988. In his senior year he began performing musical theater, appearing in plays such as Pippin, Anything Goes, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. After college, Robert joined the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he studied acting under Sanford Meisner, developer of the Meisner technique. After leaving the Playhouse, he began a theatre career in New York, appearing in plays at the Synchronicity Space, the Actor's Studio and The American Place Theatre, during which time he started writing and performing his own stand-up comedy.
After making...
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