Eric Kyle Szmanda (/səˈmændə/; born July 24, 1975) is an American actor. He portrayed Greg Sanders in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a role he held from when the show began in 2000 until its end in 2015.

Biography

Szmanda was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Don and Elaine Szmanda, and has two brothers, Brett and Rob. He is of a Polish decent. He attended Mukwonago High School and graduated at the age of nineteen at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California. While he was is school, he began marketing internships with music conglomerate BMG and moved to Chicago, Illinois to take a full-time job in the music business. His great-uncle Ray Szmanda is the "Menard's Guy," a local celebrity in the Midwest famous for his enthusiastic ads for Menard's hardware stores.