Ken Olin

Ken Olin, born in Chicago in 1954, is an American actor who also works as a television director and producer. He began with guest appearances on primetime television in the late 1970s and early 1980s before his first regular series role, on the NBC comedy-drama Bay City Blues in 1983. He then played Detective Harry Garibaldi on Hill Street Blues from 1984 to 1985 and Father Christopher Rossini on Falcon Crest from 1985 to 1986. He was cast as Michael Steadman on the ABC drama Thirtysomething, which debuted in 1987, and received a 1990 Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama. His screen credits include Ghost Story (1981), Queens Logic (1991), and Telling Secrets (1993). He later worked behind the scenes, directing episodes of Thirtysomething, Alias, Brothers & Sisters, and This Is Us, and producing Alias, Brothers & Sisters, and This Is Us, the last of which received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series.