Thomas Sadoski owes a lot to a fictional warehouse worker with relationship problems.
The 36-year-old actor may now be known to millions of television viewers as the irascible producer Don Keefer on HBO's “The Newsroom.” But it was his work on the stage that "introduced" him to "Newsroom" creator Aaron Sorkin.
Sadoski started his career as the understudy to a then-unknown Mark Ruffalo in Kenneth Lonergan’s 1998 off-Broadway breakout success, “This Is Our Youth.”
But his big break came 10 years later when he was cast in Neil LaBute’s off-Broadway play, “reasons to be pretty,” playing a clueless guy who commits the unpardonable sin of referring to the face of his girlfriend — played by "Newsroom" co-star Alison Pill — as "regular."