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Career

His best known film role was as Anne Hathaway's friend Doug in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. He has appeared in commercials for companies such as Nextel, Sprint and Bud Light. In 2007, he appeared in an episode of Law & Order. He has a regular supporting role on AMC's 2007 television series Mad Men, as Harry Crane, a media buyer in a 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency.

Personal life

Sommer was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Stillwater, Minnesota. He went to college at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he majored in theater and sang in the world renowned Concordia Choir. He studied improv work at the Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis and started an improv group, the Slush Puppies, in Moorhead. He received his MFA in acting from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Virginia and their daughter Beatrice. He maintains a blog at Vox, which he began using as a beta tester.