Neil Flynn(I)
- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Neil Richard Flynn is an American actor and comedian, known for his
role as "The Janitor", in the medical comedy-drama,
Scrubs (2001). He currently portrays
"Mike Heck" in the ABC sitcom,
The Middle (2009). Neil was born
in the south-side of Chicago. He is of Irish descent and was raised
Catholic. He moved to Waukegan, Illinois at an early age. As a student
at Waukegan East High School in 1978, he and partner Mike Shklair won
an Illinois Individual Events state championship for "Humorous Duet
Acting". After graduating from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois,
in 1982, Flynn returned to Chicago to pursue an acting career. Flynn
participated on the nationally-renowned Bradley University Speech Team.