1979年出生于爱达荷州，高中毕业后想当演员就去参加了戏剧培训，搬到了洛杉矶。一开始在某个电影院当引座员。当年第一次演戏，是在99年FOX台的电视剧《飞跃比佛利 Beverly Hills, 90210》里打酱油。在好莱坞的第一次演戏，是01年在《K星异客 K-PAX》里演主角Jeff Bridges的儿子。

　　后来又陆续在热门剧《女法官艾米 Judging Amy》《X档案》《纽约重案组》《CSI》《急诊室的故事》《犯罪心理》《鬼语者》《识骨寻踪》等剧里有了客串角色。06年的时候，演了《害羞男人 Choking Man》，又在《碟中谍3》里演 Tom Cruise的小舅子rick。07年他在《大爱 Big Love》剧组得到了Scott Quittman这个角色出现了十几集。

　　在之后，《绝命毒师》开拍以后，他就红了~总共获得2个艾美奖提名，2个艾美奖剧情类最佳男配角奖，一次提名土星奖，2次获得土星奖最佳电视男配角奖，提名卫星奖。

　　明年上映的同名游戏改编的《极品飞车 Need for Speed》由梦工厂打造，Aaron Paul出演！

　　今年五月份，爱情事业双丰收，迎娶了妻子Lauren Parsekian。

David Costabile is an American actor. Born in Washington, D.C. He is best known for his recurring television roles on The Wire (as Managing Editor of the Baltimore Sun Thomas Klebanow), Flight of the Conchords (as Doug), Damages (as Detective Rick Messer), and Breaking Bad (as Gale Boetticher). He has an important role in 2009's Solitary Man as Jenna Fischer's character's husband, Gary. He appeared in Season 6 of The Office as a banker sent from Sabre to evaluate Dunder Mifflin, and also in several television commercials, including ads for Microsoft and FedEx.

Costabile has appeared on Broadway in Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Translations as Manus in 2007, in the Broadway musical Titanic in 1997, and in The Tempest in 1995. In 2005 he appeared as the clown Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona in The Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park. For Caroline, or Change, the Drama Desk award winning musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori, (2003-2004), Costabile workshopped and performed in the original production and its Broadway transfer.

Costabile attended Gonzaga College High School and Tufts University. He graduated from New York University's MFA program in acting in 1998.