Three-time Emmy Award-winning actor, producer and author Tony Hale is best known for his role as Gary Walsh, the downtrodden personal aide to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Selina Meyers on HBO's Emmy Award-winning political comedy, Veep. Hale won two Emmys for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series" for Veep in 2013 and 2015 and was nominated in the same category in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019. Veep racked up a total 181 nominations at 62 wins during the course of the show. He won his third Emmy in 2023 for "Outstanding Lead Performance in a Children's program" for The Mysterious Benedict Society on Disney+.
Up next Hale will be heard opposite Amy Poehler, Ayo Edebiri, Lewis Black and more as the voice of Fear in Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2. He also will co-star in Netflix's The Decameron, a dark comedy series set during the bubonic plague in 1348 Italy.
Hale has appeared in a wide variety of critically acclaimed television programs and films throughout his career. Prior to Veep, he co-starred as the socially awkward Buster Bluth in the ground-breaking, Emmy Award-winning comedy series Arrested Development, which aired on Fox from 2003 – 2006 and was later picked up for additional seasons by Netflix in 2013. He also co-starred with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks as the voice of Forky in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 4, which released during the summer of 2019 and grossed over 1 billion dollars globally. The film also won The Academy Award for "Best Animated Feature," leading to Pixar greenlighting a series of Forky animated shorts titled, Forky Asks A Question, that were featured heavily during the launch of Disney +.
Hale was the lead in Disney's adventure-drama television series, The Mysterious Benedict Society, which is based off the best-selling YA novel by Trenton Lee Stewart. He starred in dual roles playing Mr. Benedict and his twin brother Mr. Curtain. Season 2 earned 11 Emmy nominations. Hale also costarred alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy in Disney's Hocus Pocus 2.
In 2021, Hale shared the screen Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem and J.K. Simmons in Amazon's dramatic film, Being The Ricardos, which follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers, and their marriage. Hale played Jess Oppenheimer, the Executive Producer of I Love Lucy.
Hale can also be seen in the Sony Picture Classic's drama Nine Days which premiered at Sundance. Directed by Edson Oda, the film has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Other projects include the starring role in ScreenMedia's comedy, Eat Wheaties! opposite Paul Walter Hauser and the villain in Clifford The Big Red Dog from Paramount Pictures. He also lent his voice alongside Lisa Kudrow, Clea DuVall, Will Forte, and more in the Fox animated series, Housebroken.
In September 2019, Hale created an animated children's series on Netflix titled Archibald's Next Big Thing. Produced by DreamWorks, ANBT is based off Hale's first children's book of the same name which published in 2014. ANBT follows a young chicken named Archibald who is always looking for his next "big thing" instead of realizing all the big and beautiful things around him. The theme of the book stemmed from Hale's own struggle of always looking for his next acting role instead of staying present and being in the here and now. ANBT features a voice cast including Rosamund Pike, Adam Pally, Chelsea Kane, Jordan Fisher and Kari Wahlgren. Season 4, now called Archibald's Next Big Thing Is Here, recently premiered on Peacock.
In 2019 Hale starred in Wakey, Wakey, the one man play from Award-winning playwright Will Eno at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Hale grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, where he attended The Young Actors Theatre. He then continued on to study acting at The Barrow Group.
