Actor and active in community affairs, Ed Fry was born in Chicago and
grew up in Texas. He graduated from Trinity University with a Bachelor
of Arts degree, magna cum laude, and was inducted into the honorary
scholastic fraternity Alpha Chi. He trained with famed theater director
Paul Baker, making his television debut on NBC's "Another World". Roles
since then have included:
"Chappelle's Show" Comedy Central; "Sex and the City" HBO; "Young
Americans" WB; "This Far and No More" PBS; "American Masters" series
PBS; "As the World Turns" CBS; "All My Children" ABC.
A long time on-camera spokesman for the "Rooms To Go" furniture
company, Fry's credits also include numerous dramatic and musical stage
roles off-Broadway and in regional theaters around the country.
Fry is a Vice-President of the New York Local of SAG-AFTRA, a member of
the national Board of Directors, national legislative and public
affairs committee and co-chair of the national SAG-AFTRA Communications
Committee.
Apart from acting, Fry serves as an honorary board member of the
Sarcoma Foundation of America, and was a national vice-president of the
Muscular Dystrophy Association until 2003. He served from 1991-1997 as
their first honorary national chairperson of the ALS division of MDA
and traveled extensively on their behalf. A New York co-host of the
Labor Day Telethon, he was named MDA's eastern division Humanitarian of
the Year in 1991 and received the MDA "Field of Hope" Humanitarian
Award in 2000.
Fry was twice named an 'Outstanding Young Man of America', receiving
awards of merit from Cancer Cares, God's Love We Deliver, Northern
Lights Alternatives (an AIDS service organization), and received the
Award of Distinguished Service from Earth Action, a non-profit service
organization on whose board he proudly served from its founding. Fry is
also the recipient of the Joseph C. Riley Award for service to the
Screen Actors Guild.
Mr. Fry is married to Janice Doskey. They have one son and reside
outside New York City.
