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 plays before moving to southern California in the late 1990's.
Geoffrey also has experience with ADR, stand-in work (for Peter Firth), and photo doubling (for actor David Paymer).
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 had a very high call-back ratio.
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 most recently
[April 2008]
Geoffrey was the principal lead in a
McDonalds regional wild spot).
Having also done considerable work doing background for film and television projects, Geoffrey was selected as one of ten background artists interviewed and such for the heart-felt, four-time award winning feature documentary
Strictly Background.
As a principal, Geoffrey was directed by Roman Coppolla for a comical promo spot for the Game Show Network, which 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 a red-capped baker
(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.
As a Day Player in the episode
The Chosen
early in the final season of
The Practice
Geoffrey played opposite Sharon Stone.
Also 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 of being a "digger."
(Geoffrey also prefer it as a moniker as, as a name, the plosive word Badger is easier and "faster to hear," particularly in a crowded area, than the softer name Geoffrey.)
Hard-wired to be/work on sets, never married
(and currently between cats J ),
Geoffrey currently is domiciled in Hollywood.
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.
Geoffrey was Taft-Hartley'd with a national commercial: a Frito-Lays/Star Wars: Phantom Menace tie-in.
After also booking a few regional commercial spots before his second SAG spot (for a regional Indiana/Illinois cell phone spot), was able to have him join SAG in 2000.
Geoffrey has remained a fully-paid member since then.
First off on his demo reel Geoffrey's comic talents are utilized for a spec-commercial for a director's reel for
Adam Goldstein
for Ridley Scott's company RSA.
For two spots for Fox Sport Interactive, Geoffrey played a head scientist, in lab-controlled conditons, measuring fans' reactions playing each spot's respective video game.
Geoffrey also 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 cameo by Daryl Hannah.
THe short was a book-end piece to five such short online films, in which during its run on amazon.com, during the credits, one could click on an actor's name to be sent to their IMDB entry, or a product within the short, to be sent to that item 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.