Richard Speight Jr. was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, the youngest of three children. He graduated cum laude from the University of Southern…more
Richard's father, Richard Sr., is the Marketing Department Writer for radio talk show host and financial expert Dave Ramsey. Richard's mother, Barbara, runs an antique shop.
Richard is mostly clean-shaven in his film and television roles (the exceptions to this being his roles in "Alias" and the movie "Love For Rent"), but when he can he prefers to sport a beard, or at least some sort of facial hair.
Richard Speight Jr.: I'm a facial hair kind of guy. I hate being clean shaven. Women buy shoes and change their hairdo. I grow a goatee. Flip sides of the same coin. Only difference is, women in leather pumps and a perm don't look homeless.