John Stamos John Stamos Isle of Thanet Category="1963 births"Category="Actors and actresses appearing on ER"Category="American actors"Category="American guitarists"Category="Drummers"Category="Film actors"Category="Greek-Americans"Category="People from California"Category="Sex symbols"Category="Soap opera actors"Category="Stage actors"Category="Television actors"Category="U.S. television producers"John Stamos (born on August 19, 1963) is an American Actor. His paternal grandfather Hermes Stamotopoulos was born with the name Stamotopoulos, and changed it to Stamos upon emigrating from Greece to the USA.

Born in Cypress, California, to Bill and Loretta Stamos, John has two sisters, Janeen and Alaina. He has appeared in a number of film movies, commercials and television sitcoms since 1982. He kicked off his acting career with a role in General Hospital, also having starred in an unaired Coca-Cola advertisement.

Stamos is best known for his role as the character of Jesse Katsopolis, an Elvis-obsessed rocker and motorcycle aficionado with great hair, in Full House from 1987-1995.

John married supermodel Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in 1998. This was the first marriage for them both, and they had no children. The couple separated in 2004 and officially divorced in 2005. After this divorce, he had a brief fling with Shanil Singh, which is said to have ended in August 2005.

On the musical front, John has toured with The Beach Boys as a drummer on and off for 15 years.

In November 2000, Stamos was the winning bidder in the eBay auction of the Disneyland sign, with fourteen-foot-tall letters, which had stood at the entrance to the park for the past decade. He paid $30,700 for it.

He did 10-10-987 commercials in 2004.

Stamos currently stars in the TV series Jake in Progress on ABC.

He also will play a role on the hit NBC series ER.

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