As Greg Sanders, the whippersnapper of the batch on CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Eric Szmanda has been DNA-testing and fingerprint-matching his way into millions of homes for six seasons. Sanders recently made the move from lab technician to field investigator and can often be found fumbling on the crime scene alongside his more seasoned colleagues. Dropping pop-culture references and sporting a T-shirt under his lab coat as he analyzes samples, Sanders brings a touch of the everyman to the world of forensic science. As Szmanda puts it, "I can be a rookie along with the viewers, who learn along with me what to do at a crime scene."
Szmanda fell in with the theater crowd in high
school, and after graduation, he abandoned his native Mukwonago, Wisconsin, for
the more urban wilds of California, where he enrolled in the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts. While studying theater, Szmanda got a marketing internship at
music conglomerate BMG, which he was able to parlay into a full-time job. But
when it came time to choose between the role of a skateboarding computer hacker
on the USA series The Net and his full-time job, Szmanda chose the skateboarding
computer hacker. And now that Szmanda has played the same character on CSI for
six seasons, it's not surprising that a little bit of Sanders has leaked into
the 30-year-old actor. "I know now to always make sure to wash my sheets," he
says.
Alexis Swerdloff
Eric wears a T-shirt by Guess, blazer by Sinner/Saint by Anthony S. Malat, jeans by Diesel, necklace by Surface to Air.
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