Bio: Geoffrey Gould
A lifelong character actor, Geoffrey Gould was born in in Brooklyn, New York, America, "though" from the age of two he was raised in the northern New Jersey suburb of Pompton Plains in Pequannock Township. A graduate of Ramapo State College at which he studied theatre, Geoffrey's father Robert often did musical theatre and his mother Jeannette did stage comedies, dramas, and shows for children audiences. At the age of eight, Geoffrey was enrolled in a summer drama program and, after playing brother Sid in the group's production of Tom Sawyer, Geoffrey had been irrevocably bitten by the actor bug.

His parents belonged to the Studio Players of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, at which Geoffrey also began performing on stage and often running tech and/or doing productions' sound designs. Geoffrey joined the famous community theatre as soon as he reached their minimum member age of 16, performing in countless stage productions before moving to southern California in the late 1990's.

Geoffrey was Taft-Hartley'd into SAG with a Frito-Lays/Star Wars: Phantom Menace tie-in national commercial. After also booking a few regional non-SAG commercial spots before his second SAG principal gig (for a regional Indiana/Illinois cell phone spot), was able to have him join SAG in 2000, since which Geoffrey has remained a fully-paid member.

First off within his demo reel Geoffrey's comic talents are reflected when they were utilized for a spec-commercial for a director's reel for Adam Goldstein torwards Ridley Scott's company RSA.
For commercial casting directors, producers and directors: a full list of what commercials Geoffrey has done is available on request via his commercial agent (though it can be noted that early 2008 Geoffrey was the dry-comical principal lead in a St. Louis based McDonalds regional wild spot commercial); at the end of 2008 Geoffrey landed a humourous principal role as an ostrich-chased mailman in a national commercial which debuted during the 2009 Super Bowl for Pedigree. In the 2010 pre-game show highlighting the best Super Bowl commercials, CBS declared Geoffrey's Pedigree Crazy Pets spot as being voted as the Third Best Super Bowl commercial of the decade...
Geoffrey also booked a principal role for an albeit short-lived AT&T commercial, the national version being in Spanish and the English version relegated as a regional wild spot airing only in Phoenix, Arizona.

Also as a principal, Geoffrey was directed by Roman Coppolla for a comical promo spot for the Game Show Network. The promot not only ran for over eighteen months, the popular spot won the Cannes 2001 Lion Award and Promax Judge's Choice Recognition. For that spot, titled Botulism...!, Geoffrey played the red-capped baker (in a rapid verbal montage along with various others with whom he's intercut), frustratingly shouting the correct answer at a television's quiz-show contestant, as though such would do any good.
For two amusing spots for Fox Sport Interactive, Geoffrey played a head scientist measuring fans' reactions playing each spot's respective video game in lab-controlled conditons.
As a Day Player in the episode The Chosen early in the final season of The Practice Geoffrey played a juror opposite Sharon Stone, over eight hours during which for each take she ran her fingers through Geoffrey's hair.
Geoffrey played the lead in the Amazon Theatre.com online "commercial" short film Careful What You Wish For (created by Yahoo!, Amazon.com and RSA), which also featured former radio-personality Patty Lotz, veteran character actor Raymond O'Connor, Kent Winfrey, Pras and a don't-blink cameo by Daryl Hannah. The innovative short was a book-end piece to five such short online films, in which during their brief run on amazon.com, one could click on an actor's name during the interactive credits to be sent to the actors' respective IMDB entry, or click on a credit-listed product within the short, to be sent to that item's product information within amazon.com.
For the television documentary Statue of Liberty: Building of a Colossus (for The Learning Channel and History Channel), Geoffrey played the lead recreationist role of historical figure Eduard Rene de Laboulaye, the French financier whose inspiration and passion backed the creation of the Statue of Liberty.
Geoffrey has experience with ADR, stand-in work (for Peter Firth), and photo doubling (for actor David Paymer), and experience with special effects make-up. Apart from doing background work, much of which being picture-picked and very featured, soon after moving to Los Angeles, Geoffrey acquired a commercial agent and, being used to auditioning and being naturally talented at cold reading, Geoffrey quickly maintained (and currently retains), a very high call-back ratio.
Having also done considerable featured background work for film and television projects (only due to lacking TV/Theatrical agent representation), Geoffrey was selected as one of ten background artists interviewed and such for the heart-felt, multiple awards-winning feature documentary Strictly Background.

Having a lifelong interest in metaphysics and the paranormal, Geoffrey acquired the nickname "Badger" by many of his friends and online friends, the badger having turned out to be Geoffrey's Spirit Animal Totem. According to native American lore, the tenacious badger is the Keeper of Secrets and the Teller of Tales; considering Geoffrey's ability for research and to find things on which other people have given up trying to locate, Geoffrey relates to the concept as being a "digger" (Geoffrey also prefer it as a moniker as the plosive word Badger is easier and "faster to hear," particularly in a crowded area, than the softer-pronounced name Geoffrey).
Geoffrey has been a guest on Para-X Radio online radio programs, details of which can be found at his Radio Guest Appearances page.

Hard-wired to be/work on sets (calltimes to which he prefer being 30 minutes early to being 30 seconds late), never married, Geoffrey currently is domiciled in Los Angeles.