Bill Nye was born on November 27, 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as William Sanford Nye. He is an actor and writer, known for Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993), 飞天法宝 (1997) and Stargate: Atlantis (2004). He was previously married to Blair Tindall.
Schools Attended: Lafayette Elementary School and Sidwell Friends School both in Washington, DC. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Worked as an engineer at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, and appeared in at least 3 training films, some of which are still popular among the workers there.
Started his career after he won a 史蒂夫·马丁 lookalike contest.
His father, Edwin D. "Ned" Nye, a quartermaster in the military during World War II, spent nearly four years as a prisoner of war mostly in China in a Japanese P.O.W camp. He later moved to Washington, DC, where he discovered dozens of sundials. He photographed them and wrote an unusual book, "Sundials of Maryland and Virginia." Thus resulted a little family business selling Ned Nye's "Sandial®," a sundial suitable for the beaches of the Atlantic seaboard.
Self-proclaimed geek in high school. He wore a tie every day, even when that aspect of the dress code was phased out. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.
He designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is used in Boeing 747s.
His first childhood memory is throwing a rubber band-powered airplane, the Sky Streak, and figuring out how to make it turn left so he could stay in one place and make the plane come back to him.
An honored as Rhodes Class of '56 Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He studied under 卡尔·萨根.
Premiered his Science Guy character on the Seattle sketch comedy show Almost Live! (1984).
Enjoys '30s/'40s-style swing dancing and attended dances at the most recent Camp Hollywood.
Announced he was engaged to be married to Blair Tindall on 克格雷弗格森深夜秀 (2005) in December 2005. The "marriage" lasted less than a month before it was either annulled or deemed invalid (sources disagree on the detail). In November 2007, Nye filed for a restraining order against "ex-fiance" Tindall, saying that he wondered if she might have poured solvent on his garden. The restraining order was later dismissed.
Good friends with Kevin Brauch.
Quit working at Boeing in the early '80s to become a stand-up comedian.
Lives in Los Angeles. Neighbors include 小艾德·博格里 and 亚历克斯·崔贝克.
One of his characters on the Seattle-based sketch show, "Almost Live", was a humorless caped superhero, Speed Walker.
One of his "Almost Live" co-stars in Seattle was Bob Nelson, screenwriter of "Nebraska".
His maternal grandmother, Lucy Marie Berta Briot, was French. His other ancestry includes English, Welsh, and Irish.
Bill is agnostic.
Serves on the Advisory Board of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science.
Always appears with bow-tie and lab coat