Actor Bill English was born on April 8, 1980 in Honeoye Falls, New York. He had an active childhood, having been involved in sports such as swimming, track, baseball and wrestling, aside from appearing in performances at school and in local and regional theaters. Upon graduating from high school, he entered the North Carolina School of the Arts. When he graduated, he decided to pursue an acting career on the New York theater scene.
English got his first Broadway role in 2004, when he appeared in the play Twentieth Century opposite Anne Heche and Alec Baldwin. Through this, more opportunities came his way, including a screen test for Saturday Night Live. However, he gained wide recognition for his appearances in several television commercials, including those for Kellogg’s and T-Mobile. He has also starred in the independent films The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell and More Abandon.
English gained even wider recognition for his role in the comedy series Cavemen. Premiered in 2007, it was inspired by a series of ads created for Geico, and portrays cavemen as a minority group in the modern times rather than being supplanted by modern humans. He appeared as Joel, the responsible among the group, who works at a furniture store and tried to handles the snags he got when he entered a relationship with a homo sapiens woman, Kate (Kaitlyn Doubleday). The series was affected by the writers’ strike, and was put on hiatus during the time; it was eventually cancelled before the strike ended.