Nate Corddry
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Nathan Harris Corddry (born September 8, 1977, in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American actor and comedian. He is the younger brother of actor and comedian Rob Corddry. After graduating from Weymouth High School and studying communications at Colby-Sawyer College, he moved into television performance. In 2005 he joined The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a correspondent, and a year later was cast in Aaron Sorkin's studio comedy-drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
In Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), Corddry portrayed the Graffiti Artist, a character the Ghostbusters encounter at the Seward Street Subway Station while investigating Patty Tolan's ghost sighting. The Graffiti Artist spray-painted a stereotypical bedsheet ghost on the station wall, then added a red circle-and-slash around it after Patty told him she did not want any more graffiti there. In this continuity's history, the Graffiti Artist unknowingly created the ghost design that the Ghostbusters later adopted as their iconic No Ghost logo. The graffiti appears again as a cross-franchise Easter egg in IDW Publishing's Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #3, where the same No Ghost logo graffiti can be seen painted on Optimus Prime.
Corddry built a strong television resume across the 2000s and 2010s. He played a recurring role in United States of Tara (2009), starred as Adam Branch in the legal drama Harry's Law for two seasons (2011-2012), and appeared as Gabriel across 33 episodes of the CBS sitcom Mom (2013-2015). From 2019 to 2022 he played engineer Larry Wilson in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama For All Mankind, and later had a recurring role in the television adaptation of Paper Girls.
