Life and career

Bakkedahl was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and was raised in Stuart, Florida. He is a 1988 graduate of Martin County High School. He is of part Norwegian descent. Bakkedahl attended St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, before completing his studies at Florida State University, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.

After college, Bakkedahl toured for a year with the Repertory Theater of America. After moving to Chicago, he made a name for himself at the Improv Olympic performing in the influential two-man improv show ZUMPF with his teacher Miles Stroth. Dan went on to perform at the Second City mainstage, eventually writing Doors Open on the Right, Second City’s 90th revue. In Chicago, he is often noted for having left the Second City mainstage due to artistic differences.

Bakkedahl continues to perform regularly at comedy venues such as the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Magnet Theater, Second City and Improv Comedy Lab in Los Angeles. He is also a member of the advisory council of the California Shakespeare Theater.

Bakkedahl's first major television work was on Comedy Central's The Daily Show where he served as a correspondent from 2005 to 2007. After leaving The Daily Show in 2007, he has since moved to Los Angeles and went on to have supporting roles in the films such as Observe and Report, The Heat, and This Is 40. He also appeared in the Snake 'N Bacon animated special on Adult Swim, which aired on May 10, 2009. In early 2010, he co-starred in the comedy pilot "Our Show" on NBC.

From 2010 through 2011, Bakkedahl appeared in a series of commercials for T-Mobile cellular phones, where he plays a human likeness of AT&T's 3G network.

Bakkedahl has made guest appearances on shows such as 30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Newsreaders, and The United States of Tara, as well as appearing in recurring roles as "Murray the A/C Repairman" in season three of Community and currently as Congressman Furlong on Veep. In 2015, he began recurring roles The Goldbergs as science teacher Mr. Woodburn and on The Mindy Project as Dr. Adrian Bergdahl.

Bakkedahl starred alongside Jim Jeffries and DJ Qualls in the FX comedy series Legit, which ran for two seasons on FX and FXX.

Bakkedahl currently co-stars in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces, which began airing in fall 2015.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005	25 Years of Improv Comedy	Himself
2007	Crime Fiction	Crazy Caller
2008	My First Kidnapping	Rick Sleevning	Short
2009	Observe and Report	Mark
	Welcome to Academia	Valentine
2010	Marriage Drama with Virginia Madsen	Paul	Short
	Voula	Delivery Man	Short
2012	This Is 40	Dentist
2013	Heat, TheThe Heat	Albino DEA Agent Craig
	Four Dogs	Dan
2014	Chu and Blossom	Principal Cochette
	Not Safe for Work	Random Denning Employee
2015	Get Hard	Leo
	The Escort	Rick
	Hitman: Agent 47	Sanders
	Trumbo	Roy Brewer
	Taco Shop	Nate Holmes	Post-production
	Killing Hasselhoff	Nick	Post-production
	Another Evil	Joey Lee	Filming

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005-2007	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Himself - Correspondent	Episode: 40
2007	Law & Order	Tony Bicks	Episode: "Remains of the Day"
	30 Rock	Angry Father	Episode: "The Fighting Irish"
	Flight of the Conchords	Waiter	Episode: "The Actor"
2008	The Return of Jezebel James	Darryl	Episode: "Needles and Schlag"
2009	The Office	Roger Prince, Jr.	Episode: "Prince Family Paper"
	Dollhouse	General Store Proprietor	Episode: "True Believer"
	Snake 'n' Bacon	Homicide Detective	Animation
2010	Mayne Street	Team Owner	Episode: "Brownian Motion and Straight as an Arrow"
	How I Met Your Mother	Curtis	Episode: "Natural History"
	Our Show	Neal	TV Movie
2011	Hot in Cleveland	Jasper	Episode: "LeBron Is Le Gone"
	United States of Tara	Mr. Kern	Episode: "Train Wreck and Crackerjack"
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Waiter	Episode: "The Hero"
2011-2012	Community	Murray	Recurring role
2012	The Book Club	The Author	Episode: "Dirty Jobs and Enemies of the State"
	The League	OB Doctor	Episode: "Training Camp"
2013	Newsreaders	Clint Schliff	Episode: "Pubic Hair Crisis"
	Grimm	Graydon Ostler	Episode: " A Dish Best Served Cold"
2013-2014	Legit	Steve Nugent	Series regular
2013-present	Veep	Roger Furlong	Recurring role
2014	Californication	Dr. Dan	Episode: "Smile"
	Major Crimes	Carl Lembeck	Episode: "Cutting Loose"
	Gotham	Davis Lamond/The Balloonman	Episode: "The Balloonman"
	Bad Judge	Mr. Lewis	Episode: "Knife to a Gunfight"
	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Lt. Andrew Miller	Episode: "The Mole"
2014-2015	The Goldbergs	Mr. Woodburn	Recurring role
2015	The Mindy Project	Dr. Adrian Bergdahl	Recurring role
2015-present	Life in Pieces	Tim	Series regular

Other work

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005	Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks	Additional Voices (voice: English version)	Video game

[ Source: Wikipedia ]