John Christopher McGinley (born August 3, 1959) is an American actor. He is most notable for his roles as Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O\'Neill in Oliver Stone\'s Platoon, Marv in Stone\'s Wall Street, and FBI agent Ben Harp in Point Break. He has also written and produced for television and film. Apart from acting, McGinley is also an author, a board member and international spokesman for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, and a spokesman for the National Down Syndrome Society.\n', '

McGinley, who is one of five children, was born in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, the son of a schoolteacher and a stockbroker. His paternal great-grandfather was from Donegal, Ireland. McGinley was raised in Millburn, New Jersey, and attended Millburn High School, where he played wide receiver for the school\'s football team. He studied acting at Syracuse University, and later at New York University\'s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1984. Upon completing his education, McGinley did a variety of different work, including Off Broadway and Broadway productions, and a two-year stint on the soap opera Another World.\n', '

McGinley has had a prolific career, primarily as a supporting character actor. He was noticed by a casting scout while working as John Turturro\'s understudy in John Patrick Shanley\'s 1984 production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, which led to a successful audition for the role of Sergeant Red O\'Neill in the Oscar-winning Platoon (1986). McGinley had been cast in his first film role in Alan Alda\'s Sweet Liberty earlier in 1986. That was followed the next year with Wall Street (1987), and again the next with Talk Radio (1988). He was also featured in a 1980s Subaru commercial. He appeared in the "Celebrity Challenge" version of American Gladiators, losing to Dean Cain. McGinley wrote the script for the 1990 film Suffering Bastards, in which he also co-starred.\n', '

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