Benrubi's early appearances included roles in the shows
Growing Pains,
Married... with Children and
Blossom. His first major role was on the show
Wings, as Roy "R.J." Biggins Jr., Roy's gay son. He would appear as R.J. twice: once during the show's second season, and again during the seventh season, shortly after he began working on
NBC's
ER. Benrubi portrayed a young Dan Conner, the character portrayed by
John Goodman, in a flashback episode of
Roseanne. Benrubi appeared on ER from its first season, playing desk clerk Jerry Markovic. He was a regular cast member from 1994 to 1999; again from 2002 to 2006; and again from 2008 to 2009. Benrubi starred as one of the main characters in
ABC's show
Men in Trees (2006 to 2008), playing bartender/millionaire Ben Tomasson. This was a role where he got noticeably more main dialog and depth than with his previous longtime characters on
ER and ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'', where he played a more supporting role. Ben Tomasson was described as "the cuddliest TV character since
Jorge Garcia's Hurley on
Lost" by TV-critic David Bianculli. Following the cancellation of
Men In Trees in early 2007, Benrubi returned to the cast of
ER in late 2008 for the show's final season. Benrubi starred in the short-lived
ABC show,
Happy Town (April to June 2010) where he portrayed the part of Big Dave Duncan. Almost immediately after ABC announced the series' cancellation, he appeared in a new show
Memphis Beat, where he portrayed the part of police Sgt. Jody "JC" Lightfoot, a desk sergeant who is 1/16
Chickasaw by a distant relative, but chooses to embrace
Native American culture all the same. In May 2011, it was announced that he would star in
Glutton, a "3D psychological thriller" directed by
David Arquette. Benrubi would have played Jethro, a 1,200-pound man, forced to save his sister's life. Jethro's sister would have been portrayed by
Patricia Arquette, while
Kacey Barnfield would have also starred as his blind neighbor and only friend. Benrubi is a member of Los Angeles'
Sacred Fools Theater Company. Other work includes portraying Mose in the 2003 western
Open Range, a role the actor won because he had been cut out of director
Kevin Costner's previous film,
The Postman. He frequently voices characters on
Adult Swim's stop-motion animation show
Robot Chicken (created by personal friend
Seth Green), and has also contributed to a second show from ''Chicken's
creators, Titan Maximum.'' ==Filmography==