HE DID IT HIS WAY

You may think you don’t know Michael D. Cohen’s work, but you undoubtably do. Like many character actors who fill out casts of television shows and movies but rarely garner leading roles, Cohen has made a career out of disappearing into a bevy of supporting characters. In the past two decades he’s appeared in literally dozens of roles, many on hit TV shows including The Real O’Neals, The Mindy Project, 2 Broke Girls, Modern Family, and My Name Is Earl.

Earlier this year, Cohen—who starred on and now plays a central character on , the long-running Nickelodeon sitcom—stepped into the spotlight in