What Famous TV Commercial Actors Get Paid

The Maytag Man

Colin Ferguson is his name, and installing washer and dryer units is his game. Not really though, he actually got his career started by playing a cop on Eureka. He played out the strong, silent, authoritarian type character until he acted in The Vampire Diaries and Christmas in Paradise where he dropped the typecasted personality and dug his heels into being a dramatic actor. 

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