Jamie Marsh

Jamie Marsh is an American theater, television and film actor who began with a role in the Swedish production Montenegro in 1981 and trained at HB Studio from 1987 to 1991. In 1991 he originated the part of Jay Kurnitz in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award; by 1992 the Broadway production at The Richard Rodgers Theater had been performed more than 500 times. Ellen Burstyn invited him to join The Actors Studio in 1992, and he has studied there with Mark Rydell and Martin Landau. On screen he co-starred in Brainscan (1994) with Edward Furlong and appeared in Even Money (2006), Best Laid Plans (1999) and Beethoven's 3rd (2000). His television work includes ER, X-Files and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in national commercials, and for most of his career was known as Jamie Marsh before changing his last name to Galen in 2023.