26 Facts About Brad Garrett

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Brad Garrett played the leading role of Eddie Stark on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death from 2006 to 2010.

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In 2021, Garrett helped create Disney+'s Big Shot with David E Kelley and Dean Lorey.

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Brad Garrett is known for voicing the Big Dog on 2 Stupid Dogs.

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Brad Garrett has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, with three other nominations.

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Brad Garrett is still prominent within stand-up comedy and owns a comedy club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, called Brad Garrett's Comedy Club, where he performs regularly.

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Brad Garrett attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and graduated from El Camino Real High School, both in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, California.

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Brad Garrett attended UCLA for less than two months before dropping out to pursue his comedy career.

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Brad Garrett opened in Las Vegas for Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Brad Garrett appeared for a week on the game show Super Password in 1987.

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Brad Garrett appeared on Hollywood Squares including a moment when he impersonated Bill Cosby during a question about Jell-o.

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Brad Garrett then appeared in the short-lived summer comedy First Impressions, in which he was a divorced father who makes a living doing impressions, in a one-time spot as a bank loan officer on Roseanne, and The Pursuit of Happiness, in which he was the hero's gay best friend.

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Brad Garrett soon won the role of Ray Romano's brother Robert Barone on the long-running family-oriented comedy hit Everybody Loves Raymond, and in 1998, he and Romano appeared together in their respective roles on a Season 1 episode of The King of Queens, titled "Road Rayge", in which Robert is jealous of his brother spending so much time with Doug Heffernan.

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Brad Garrett has made an appearance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air playing a hitman who attempts to kill Will Smith's character.

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In 1990, Brad Garrett appeared as a semi-regular panelist on the revival of Match Game.

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Brad Garrett won the fifth season championship of Celebrity Poker Showdown, and played in the 2005,2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker.

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Brad Garrett was hoping to do a spin-off with his character Robert Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond when the show ended its nine-year run in 2005, but he withdrew in October 2005 due to inaction from CBS that led to a number of the writers from Raymond leaving and taking other jobs.

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In 2005, Brad Garrett appeared on Broadway playing Murray the Cop in the revival of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

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In 2009, Brad Garrett entered the main event at the World Series of Poker, losing on the second day of the event.

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Brad Garrett has starred in commercials for 7-Up, where he portrays a more happy, cheerful version of himself because of the soda.

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On December 12,2011, Brad Garrett closed his club at the Tropicana.

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Brad Garrett started a new club with the same name across the street at the MGM Grand, and is active as of April 2016.

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In November 2016, Brad Garrett portrayed Frankenstein's monster in a Christmas commercial for Apple's iPhone 7.

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In 2018, Brad Garrett voiced the character Eeyore in the live-action film Christopher Robin, based on Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, and in a cameo in the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet.

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Brad Garrett previously voiced the character in the 1995 video game Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.

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In 1998, Brad Garrett proposed to his then-girlfriend, Jill Diven, on the set of Everybody Loves Raymond, and they were married on May 18,1999; together they have two children, a son and a daughter.

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Brad Garrett stated in an interview in May 2015, that as his acting career began, he won a battle against alcoholism, later admitting he was a "high-functioning alcoholic".