What Famous TV Commercial Actors Get Paid

What a Guy

Timothy Williams is an actor from Germany that was born in Texas and moved to Europe to go to school. He was a German actor for a period of time, but he eventually moved to the states to get into movies and commercials. Trivago wasn't even his biggest gig (he only got paid $20,000), but it definitely was one of the more defining commercial roles that he's played on Television. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.