Timothy Michael Omundson is an American actor perhaps most notable for his supporting roles as Sean Potter on the CBS television series Judging Amy, and as Eli on the syndicated series Xena: Warrior Princess. In 2015, he played the villainous King Richard in Galavant. Omundson portrayed Head Detective Carlton Lassiter as a main cast member on the USA Network hit original series Psych.
Biography[]
Omundson was born in St. Joseph, Missouri to a railroad worker father and teacher mother. After his family moved to Bellevue, Washington, he started to study theater at the age of twelve at the Seattle Children's Theater and interned at various theaters during his high school years. With acting as his primary focus, he studied during the summer of his junior year in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. For two years in a row, he was Washington State Debate Champion in Dramatic Interpretation.
After graduating from Interlake High School in 1987, Omundson went to the University of Southern California where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. He won USC's Jack Nicholson Award and James and Nony Doolittle Award for outstanding achievements in acting.
Sadly, Omundson suffered a major stroke in late April 2017. As a result, his role in Psych: The Movie had to be greatly scaled back. Fortunately he's recovering well, of which his more substantial roles in Psych 2: Lassie Come Home and Psych 3: This Is Gus are proof.
Omundson lives in Los Angeles with his wife Allison and their daughters Lily and Nora.
Trivia[]
- According to USA Network's "Psych All-Night" event, Timothy's favorite Psych episode is S6E2 "Last Night Gus".
- Mr. Yin's accomplice Allison Cowley was named after Omundson's wife, and Lassiter and Marlowe's daughter was named Lily Nora in honor of Omundson's two daughters.
- One of Lassiter's characteristics is his aversion towards local psychic Shawn. Coincidentally, Omundson appears as the psychic in the "Are you psychic?" commercial in Starship Troopers.
- Omundson is dyslexic.
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