Salling, 33, played Noah "Puck" Puckerman from 2009-15 on Glee. A mohawked jock known for tossing students into a dumpster, Puck was best friends with Cory Monteith's character Finn Hudson – though he cheated and had a baby with Finn's girlfriend – and evolved over six seasons, eventually enlisting in the Air Force.
His Big Break
Born in Dallas, Salling began playing the piano at age 5 and performed in rock bands in high school, he said in a 2010 Teen Vogue interview. He moved to California to study guitar at music college for a year before trying to make it as a singer-songwriter."I decided I eventually wanted to pursue my own work, and so that kind of led to seeking other opportunities, and that’s when Glee came along," he told the magazine, calling the gig "pretty much my dream job."
Glee marked Salling's first major TV role: Before then, his only acting credits were an appearance in a 1999 episode of Walker, Texas Ranger and a part in the 1996 straight-to-video Children of the Corn: The Gathering.
In a 2010 promotion for the show's open casting call by Fox All Access, Saling talked about his "mind-blowing" and "stressful" audition experience.
"I mean, [there are] 30 people in a room watching you read five scenes and singing, and you do that over and over early in the morning, and there’s like four other dudes around you that are like breathtaking, and you’re like, 'What am I doing here, I’m a freaking troll, ' " he joked.
Losing Cory
Salling and Monteith were close on and off screen, and the leading man'ssudden death in 2013 from a drug overdose was a devastating blow."Cory Monteith was a great leader as a character and person in real life," Sallingtold PEOPLE in 2014. "It's a big, obvious hole. I still think about him all the time."
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