Teddy Sears
Sears in 2017
Born	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Spouse	Milissa Skoro ​ (m. 2013)​

Teddy Sears is an American actor, known for his roles as Richard Patrick Woolsley on theTNT legal drama seriesRaising the Bar, Patrick on the first season ofFXanthology horror dramaAmerican Horror Story (retroactively titledMurder House), Dr. Austin Langham on theShowtime period drama seriesMasters of Sex, andDC ComicssupervillainHunter Zolomon / Zoom of the television seriesThe Flash.

Sears was born inWashington, D.C., and raised inChevy Chase, Maryland. He attended high school at theLandon School in Bethesda, Maryland.^[1] Sears played football for theUniversity of Maryland, but transferred and graduated from theUniversity of Virginia with a degree in business management in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

Sears' business career in New York was put on hold as he won a role on his first audition, with a two-year contract role on the daytime seriesOne Life to Live. Then, after several appearances on theLaw & Order franchise andWhoopi, he attended theWilliam Esper Studio.^{[citation needed]} This training led to comedy stints on theLate Show with David Letterman andLate Night with Conan O'Brien.

He co-starred on the TNT original seriesRaising the Bar portraying public defender Richard Patrick Woolsley.^[2][3]

Sears appeared inJoss Whedon'sDollhouse, the Lifetime original filmThe Client List,^[4] and as Thomas Cole inThe Defenders.

In 2013, Sears joined the cast of theShowtime dramaMasters of Sex,^[5] about the work ofMasters and Johnson. From 2015 to 2016, Sears had been cast in a recurring role ofThe CW'sDC Comics television seriesThe Flash, initially introduced asJay Garrick,^[6] until it was revealed that his character was actuallyHunter Zolomon / Zoom.^[7] In 2017, he starred as Keith Mullins in24: Legacy.^[8]

In 2020, Sears appeared as a guest on theStudio 60 on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraiser episode ofThe George Lucas Talk Show.

Sears married actress Milissa Skoro on October 5, 2013. In his free time he surfs and playsice hockey. He has two brothers, Christian and Ricky, and a sister Dana.^[9]

His great-grandfather Harry Edward Sears won a gold medal in the1912 Olympics for pistol shooting,^{[citation needed]} and his aunt Mary Jane Parks won a bronze medal in the1956 Olympics for the 100-yard butterfly.^{[citation needed]}

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