Busfield was born in June 1957 in Lansing, Michigan, and studied drama at East Tennessee State College. He has labored extensively in theater as each an actor and director, incomes Broadway credit in productions corresponding to A Few Good Males and Brighton Seashore Memoirs.
In 1984, Busfield portrayed Arnold Poindexter within the comedy Revenge of the Nerds and reprised the function within the movie’s 1987 sequel. That very same 12 months, he joined the solid of the critically acclaimed drama sequence Thirtysomething, which helped set up his tv profession.
Busfield steadily collaborated with author and director Aaron Sorkin, starting together with his function within the 1990 Broadway manufacturing of A Few Good Males. He later directed a number of episodes of Sorkin’s ABC sequence Sports activities Night time.
From 1999 to 2006, Busfield appeared on The West Wing as Danny Concannon, a Pulitzer Prize–successful journalist and the on-screen love curiosity of Allison Janney’s character, White Home Press Secretary C.J. Cregg.
Busfield has been married thrice. He shares a son together with his first spouse, actor and director Radha Delamarter. He later married designer Jennifer Merwin in 1988, with whom he had two kids earlier than divorcing in 2007. In 2013, he married actor Melissa Gilbert.