Brian Shoop(I)
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Brian was third of four children born to Willard and Alice Shoop near
the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie. His two older brothers followed their
father into the oil business, but Brian wandered off into construction.
He married his childhood sweetheart and moved her and two boys west to
find work in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1980. It was in Tulsa, of all places,
that he discovered his love for acting. But by then, he felt obligated
to win the bread for his family, so the new career had to wait.
Finally, the boys left for college, and he began pursuing his craft
full time at 47. Ironically, he landed his first major motion picture
role in The Rookie (2002), a story of the oldest rookie in professional
baseball.
