A tall, lanky leading and supporting player, Randall Batinkoff has been most successful at depicting repressed preppy types in features and on the small screen.Born and raised in upstate New York, the actor began his career as a child, appearing in his first TV commercials at age eight. Within a few years, he was seen alongside Ricky Schroeder and Joe Namath in the Afterschool Special "An Orchestra Is a Team, Too" (1981) and had a featured role in the busted pilot "One More Try" (CBS, 1982), as Laurence Luckinbill's son. His TV series debut came with the short-lived CBS sitcom "Better Days"