Photo: U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Kevin T. Brown Jr. / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Greg Germann has mastered a paradox I find genuinely difficult: making unlikable men a pleasure to watch. Richard Fish on Ally McBeal was smug, money-obsessed, and ethically slippery, yet Germann's timing made him the show's comic engine and earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award. Decades later he pulled off the same trick as the arrogant Koracick on Grey's Anatomy and a smirking Hades on Once Upon a Time. That consistency tells me this is not typecasting but a deliberate specialty, executed with theater-honed precision. Character actors like Germann are the load-bearing walls of television, and I would argue he is among the best of his generation at it.
Overview
Gregory Andrew Germann ( GUR-mən; born February 26, 1958) is an American actor who is known for playing Richard Fish on the television series Ally McBeal, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild award. He also is known for his roles as Eric "Rico" Morrow on the sitcom Ned & Stacey, Dr. Tom Koracick in Grey's Anatomy and as Hades in Season Five of Once Upon a Time.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Greg Germann
- Name (Japanese)
- グレッグ・ジャーマン
- Reading
- ぐれっぐ・じゃーまん
- Born
- February 26, 1958 (age 68)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Dog
- Origin
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor / director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Golden High School
- University
- University of Northern Colorado
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.