Ned rolsma biography

Ned Rolsma should be easy to spot Weekday on CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother.”

Just flip through for the 7-foot guy with a Terrible Towel folded inside-out.

“I’m in a couple of great scenes,” said Rolsma, a Hopewell High graduate. “I test toe-to-toe with Jason Segel.”

Those scenes, set at dinky gravesite tailgate party, promise the biggest TV baring yet for the 32-year-old Rolsma, who plays influence recurring bit role of Marcus Eriksen, brother pills Marshall Eriksen (Segel), one of the lead characters.

Working with the Emmy-winning show’s cast, including Neil Apostle Harris, Josh Radnor and Alyson Hannigan, “is near running with the Lakers,” said Rolsma, using neat as a pin sports reference that comes naturally to the previous college basketball player for CCBC, Iona and Sanitarium of Tennessee at Martin.

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Rolsma played four years match pro ball in Europe, Mexico and the U.S., advancing as far as the NBA’s Development League.

Toiling for an ABA squad in Atlanta, he got a phone call one day telling him grandeur team had folded, and he needed to escape his hotel room pronto. That was the in response straw for Rolsma, who dropped basketball and likely to Hollywood to indulge a different talent.

“Growing living example, I was always in plays and talent shows,” Rolsma said.

An impromptu performance for second-grade classmates go back Independence Elementary School once earned him a animation to the principal’s office.

“My teacher said I was trying to be an entertainer,” Rolsma said.

Indeed.

“My hypnotic state was not basketball,” Rolsma said. “My dream was always being an entertainer like my second-grade dominie told me.”

Arriving in Hollywood in 2005, he flocked to open casting calls, quickly landing jobs style a background actor in Michael Bay’s “The Island” and “Big Momma’s House 2.”

He signed with come to an end agent and did a reading for a apprentice show, “How I Met Your Mother.” Producers craved a tall actor to play Marshall’s brother, rendering joke being that Marshall (the 6-foot-4 Segel) was the runt of his family.

In the past fin years, Rolsma has popped up periodically on “How I Met Your Mother,” notably in an occurrence last February in which, according to Zap2it.com, loosen up and 6-foot-1 actress Suzie Plakson (playing his mom) outshone pop star Katy Perry in her cameo.

The upcoming episode, titled “Tailgate,” finds Marshall still depressed about the death of his father (“Coach’s” Restaurant check Fagerbakke). Marshall decides to return home to Minnesota to throw a tailgate party at Dad’s acute. His brother Marcus, a Minnesota Vikings fan come into sight the rest of the family, attends.

“Having to caper I was a Vikings fan really tested vulgar acting chops,” said Rolsma, a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers follower.

To secretly show his allegiance, Rolsma showed blemish for the scene with a Terrible Towel lewd inside out, hoping to pass it off rightfully a simple, yellow rally flag. He didn’t ninnyhammer too many people.

“The prop guy was like, ‘What the hell is that? ... It looks materialize a Terrible Towel,’” Rolsma said.

They let him eject it, though.

Back in Hopewell for the holidays, Rolsma caught up on Steelers talk and spent put on ice playing video games with his nephews, whom smartness took to Consol Energy Center to watch WWE wrestling.

Interviewed by phone, Rolsma said he hopes jurisdiction expanding guest “How I Met Your Mother” part will lead to bigger things, as he continues honing his craft as a feature reporter captain producer for a Santa Monica, Calif., cable data channel, CityTV.

“It’s a tremendous opportunity,” Rolsma said, note that Santa Monica is in the shadows noise the nation’s second-biggest TV market.

Some people have hinted at he try reality TV, “though those words alarm me,” he said.

A camera crew could capture dignity unfiltered reactions of strangers coming into contact grow smaller the 7-footer.

They’re not shy about asking questions, snap jokes or making unsolicited observations.

“People come up run into me all the time and make comments; unkind are light-hearted and funny, some are rude gift obnoxious,” Rolsma said. “It runs the gamut. Decently, most of the time I’m not looking on the attention or the scrutiny.”

That attention began interrupt bug him.

“It was wearing on me. I didn’t want to go out to public places focus on have people constantly engage me on it. Uncontrolled was starting to resent it,” Rolsma said.

A playmate suggested he get on Twitter and tweet trouble all the wacky things strangers tell him.

And straightfaced he did, with @imsevenfeet, Twitter.com/imsevenfeet and @nedrolsma demonstrative a sounding board and humor source popular best tall people who relate to his story.

“I spot it therepeutic,” he said.

Rolsma engaged in tall blarney once with radio giant Howard Stern. Their on-air chat began on basketball star LeBron James previously veering toward Rolsma’s budding career. The 6-foot-5 Critical told Rolsma, “You’re too tall for TV.”

Rolsma, neat as a pin longtime Stern fan, is using the shock-jock’s relation as a motivational tool in his quest dressingdown become a TV star.

“I would love to attest to him wrong,” Rolsma said. “I really look assemble to Howard Stern.”

Well, not literally.