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Eric Szmanda

Biography

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Eric Kyle Szmanda (/səˈmændə/; born July 24, 1975 height 6' (1,83 m) ) is an American actor. He portrays Greg Sanders in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a role he has held since the show began in 2000.Szmanda was born in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, the son of Elaine (née Enders) and Donald Szmanda,and has two brothers, Brett and Rob.

He attended Mukwonago High School and graduated at the age of nineteen at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California. While he was in school, he began marketing internships with music conglomerate BMG and moved to Chicago, Illinois to take a full-time job in the music business.[2] His great-uncle Ray Szmanda is the "Menard's Guy," a local celebrity in the Midwest famous for his enthusiastic ads for Menard's hardware stores.

Known For

Shadow of Fear
Shadow of Fear
CSI: Immortality
CSI: Immortality
Little Athens
Little Athens
True Vinyl
True Vinyl
Snow Wonder
Snow Wonder
Shangri-La: Near Extinction
Shangri-La: Near Extinction

Filmography

2021 CSI: Vegas
as Greg Sanders
2021 Adverse
as Greg
2018 Shangri-La: Near Extinction
as Vargas
2015 CSI: Immortality
as Greg Sanders
2012 Shadow of Fear
as Detective Dominic Leary
2005 Snow Wonder
as Luke
2005 Little Athens
as Derek
2004 True Vinyl
as Billy Thompson
2004 The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2002 The Rules of Attraction
as NYU Film Student
2001 The Division
as Mark
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Greg Sanders
2000 FreakyLinks
as
2000 100 Girls
as Sam / Computer Nerd
1999 The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
as Self
1998 Oh Baby
as Brent
1998 The Net
as Jacob Resh
1997 The View
as Self