April 15, 2018 - GEOFFREY AREND (CBS's "Madam Secretary") and GAVIN MAGNUS (YouTube sensation)




THE BIGGER PICTURE with Timothy Spangler show

Summary: GEOFFREY AREND, from CBS's "Madam Secretary," is our featured guest this Sunday night! A native New Yorker, GEOFFREY is a graduate of New York City's LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts. He is a series regular and directs for the hit CBS drama, "Madam Secretary" opposite Téa Leoni. He was also a series regular on ABC's drama "Body of Proof" for three seasons along with the TNT drama, "Trust Me." Geoffrey has appeared in numerous other roles on television, beginning with the iconic animated series "Daria," along with Judd Apatow's "Undeclared." GEOFFREY got his start in a breakout role in the cult-stoner-comedy "Super Troopers." Notable features include a lead role in M. Night Shyamalan's "Devil" for Universal, "500 Days of Summer" opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, "Save The Date" which premiered at Sundance with Allison Brie, "Garden State" and "The Ringer." Animated work includes "Angry Birds" for Columbia Pictures and lead voices in MTV's "Chicks On A Bench" and "Backspace" for the Cartoon Network. GEOFFREY is currently starring in LA Theatre Works' production of Ayad Akhtar's controversial Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award-winning drama, "Disgraced." Amir Kapoor is a brilliant, successful Pakistani-American attorney who has turned his back on his childhood faith in order to thrive in America. On the surface, he has it all: a beautiful wife, a swanky apartment and a lucrative career. But the charmed life he so artfully constructed is put in jeopardy when a dinner party turns tumultuous and the guests' ideals of culture, marriage, career and family collide. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is GAVIN MAGNUS, actor and YouTube sensation! GAVIN is now a series regular in the web series "Reckless Juliets," where he plays the role of Parker Bennett. He has created and produces his own YouTube series "Magnutizers," which has over 7,420,700 views and 28,300 subscribers. He has also been working on the DreamWorks TV series "When Sports Collide" and you can also see him on the series "Minor Renovations" on HGTV playing alongside Eric Stromer. He is a gymnast in his spare time, practicing flips and training 2 -3 hours a day. He also helps his mom rescue animals, mostly Weimaraners.