Name	Mark Linn-Baker
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	17-June-1954
Place of Birth	St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Mark Linn-Baker graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1972. Graduating from Yale University with an MFA in Drama in 1979, Linn-Baker found most of his early roles on stage. He developed and performed in a two-man comedy show, The Laundry Hour, with Lewis Black, in the early 1980s.
He appeared in the 1983 Broadway version of the Doonesbury comic strip. He appeared in Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993, the 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the 1998 Roundabout Theatre Company production of A Flea in Her Ear, the 2003 musical A Year With Frog and Toad, and the 2006 comedy Losing Louie.
Linn-Baker's first movie role was a small part in Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan. Unfortunately for the young actor, most of his scenes were later cut from the film. Three years later, he would land a far more memorable film role partly inspired by Woody Allen himself playing Benjy Stone in the 1982 comedy film My Favorite Year alongside Peter O'Toole. In a manner similar to his future role in Perfect Strangers, Linn-Baker played the straight man to O'Toole's outrageous character, Alan Swann.

Having attained success on stage and the big screen, Linn-Baker began to turn his sights toward television. In 1983, he appeared in an unsold detective show pilot called O'Malley. The following year saw a role on the television movie, The Ghost Writer, and in the summer series, The Comedy Zone. Soon Linn-Baker was appearing in several high-profile television shows. He guest-starred on a 1984 episode of Miami Vice as Bonzo Barry and portrayed hapless office worker Phil West on a 1985 episode of Moonlighting entitled "Atlas Belched".

Between parts, he would also appear in television commercials pitching products ranging from Kellogg's Nutri-Grain to Kraft's Life Savers.