His plans were put on hold indefinitely when the siren call of the stage compelled DeKay to enroll in the directing program at Syracuse University. Graduating from LeMoyne in 1985, he worked for a casket company while preparing to pursue a career either in business or law. Between classes, DeKay pitched in at the Firehouse Theatre, a converted fire station-turned-performance space, where he built sets and played the occasional role. In 1981, an athletic scholarship brought him to the private LeMoyne College in Syracuse, where he majored in business and minored in philosophy. One of two sons of James and Jill DeKay, who later divorced, DeKay staged backyard plays with his younger brother and performed in student dramatics at Lansing High School.
Timothy Robert DeKay was born on June 12, 1963, in the upstate New York town of Lansing, near Ithaca. Dividing his time between the stage, television and the big screen, DeKay was seen in supporting roles in Tim Hunter's "Control" (2004), Victor Salva's "Peaceful Warrior" (2006) and the 2008 "Get Smart" remake starring Steve Carell before he returned to primetime as one-half of the buddy equation on "White Collar." His collegiate handsomeness agreeably coarsening as he neared age 50, DeKay brought a sense of experience and gravitas to the role of federal agent Peter Burke, capping but hardly closing the book on the career of a seasoned character actor with a leading man's good looks.
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Shots at recurring roles on weekly series came with HBO's "Carnivàle" (2003-05) and "Tell Me You Love Me" (2007-09), both of which hit the airwaves with considerable buzz only to fold after two seasons. DeKay honed his craft in regional and off-Broadway theatre and paid his journeyman dues on episodic television playing lawyers, doctors, detectives, corporate executives and the occasional Machiavellian schemer. Until he won the role of a veteran FBI agent paired by necessity with a con artist partner in the hit series "White Collar" (USA Network, 2009-14), actor Tim DeKay was best known for playing Bizarro Jerry, the sincere and impeccably mannered doppelganger of Jerry Seinfeld in two episodes of the comedian's long-running NBC sitcom.
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