Eric Szmanda

As charming lab tech-turned-field-investigator Greg Sanders on the hit series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 2000-15), actor Eric Szmanda zoomed from relative obscurity to weekly face time on one of the most popular television series in America - if not the entire globe. That the performer has made the transition and retained his affable Midwestern personality said much for his future in the business.