Most of you will immediately recognize this week's man morsel from his role as Aclide Herveaux from HBO's True Blood. He is none other than Joe Manganiello.
Joe is an American actor born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1976. His parents were Italian and Armenian. Not surprising, Joe was very active in sports growing up and played varsity football and captained the volleyball team. His first big role was that of Jud Fry from Oklahoma when he was in high school.
He applied to Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and was rejected and decided instead to go to University of Pittsburgh and worked with local theaters. A year later he applied again and was one of 17 admitted.
Joe has been lucky be involved in a lot of work including Spider Man, Spider Man 3, So Notorious, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, E.R., One Tree Hill, CSI:NY, and True Blood.
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his fiancee, Audra Marie. He is also a strong supporter of Until There's A Cure, a charity fighting to bring an end to HIV/AIDS.
