Ed O'Neill

Ed O'Neill is an American actor and comedian who also played professional football before acting. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1946, he played college football at Youngstown State and signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 1969. He became widely known in the late 1980s as Al Bundy, the working class father in the Fox sitcom Married with Children, and returned to prominence in the 2010s as Jay Pritchett, the family patriarch in the ABC sitcom Modern Family. For that series he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series four times. His film work began with Cruising in 1980 and includes Dutch, Wayne's World and The Bone Collector, along with voice parts in Wreck-It Ralph, Finding Dory and Ralph Breaks the Internet.