My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now!

Chiklis had been developing the project since February 2008 after he and his wife became victims of a Ponzi scheme themselves. Philanthropy
Chiklis has participated in celebrity Texas Hold 'Em tournaments to benefit comedian Brad Garrett's charity foundation Maximum Hope. Chiklis has said in an NPR interview that this was a very traumatic experience as a young actor and is the reason he wore a hairpiece in Wired.

Some of the previous roles for which he is best known include Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield the Thing in the Fantastic Four film series and Jim Powell on the ABC science-fiction comedy-drama No Ordinary Family. Michael Charles Chiklis (born August 30 1963) is an American actor director and television producer.