Max Adler is a powerhouse of a person. Today we dive deep into the complexities of losing your mom, becoming a dad, and the wild journey that is an acting career in Los Angeles. Most significantly, we discuss the loss of his mother when Max was in high school. While she ultimately died of a heart attack, Max's mother combatted Lyme Disease as well as muscular dystrophy.

Born in Queens, New York and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Adler is a cast member of the 2011 Golden Globe Winner for Best Television Series - Comedy (Glee) and a 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (Glee) where he played the slushy throwing homophobic bully, Dave Karofsky. He is also known for his controversial, buzzed about character, Tank, in the Peabody Award winning series Switched at Birth.

Adler has worked with Woody Allen in Cafe Society, Clint Eastwood in Sully, and was a lead in the film Mope, based on the shocking true story, which premiered at Sundance 2019. He was most recently seen in front of the camera in Aaron Sorkin's Trial of the Chicago 7, which Adler also co-executive produced. He has recurred on the soap opera Young & The Restless, and has guest starred in such shows as The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Criminal Minds, The Flash and many more.

Adler is heavily involved with GLAAD, The Trevor Project, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

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