This Is Us still has several mysteries left to unravel—the big one, of course, is how did Pearson patriarch, Jack, die?—but one of the unsolved questions is starting to become a definite elephant in the room. Seventeen episodes in and This Is Us fans still have no clue what Toby (Chris Sullivan) does for a living.
The guy has the means to keep himself decked in flashy designer duds, and he seemingly had no career conflicts when it came to hightailing it out of Los Angeles for an extended stay in New York with his girlfriend, Kate (Chrissy Metz). So what exactly does this guy do?
While This Is Us fans know Kate was the longtime assistant to her TV star brother Kevin (Justin Hartley) and later found a job as a personal assistant to a woman (Jami Gertz) with a sassy kid (she even interviewed with Toby's ex for a job at a boutique), there has been no mention of what Toby does to bring home the bacon.Of course, This Is Us writers gave Toby some unwanted time off via a heart attack storyline, so it's not as though anyone expects to see him in a high-stress corporate job like Randall (Sterling K. Brown) anytime soon. But viewers would still like to know how Sullivan's character can afford to take off from work for several months at a time.
"Once I experienced it, there was kind of nothing else," the This Is Us star dished. "The only other thing that stuck with me up to college was that I was a competitive tennis player for about a decade."
Chris Sullivan's first acting audition came at age 14 when he was a freshman in high school.
"I auditioned and got it," the This is Us star said. "I had two lines in The Sting. And I have been acting ever since."
While This Is Us viewers know a lot about Toby's weight loss struggle and his history with depression, they know very little else about his backstory. It took a heart attack and a hospital scene to even find out that his last name is Damon and that he hails from Palm Springs, California.
While Sullivan didn't drop any details about Toby's chosen line of work, the This Is Us actor did tell Entertainment Tonight that fans will eventually get to know more about his character."Probably at some point," the This Is Us star told ET. "If we live through the hole in the heart, we'll probably get into Toby's background. Maybe we'll find out his brother is Matt Damon. I think that's what we should find out."
Take a look at the video below to see Toby in action on This Is Us.