Marius Stan

Marius Stan is a Romanian scientist and actor from Urziceni currently a senior scientist at the Applied Materials division at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont Illinois where he uses Artificial Intelligence to design materials Stan is best known for playing car wash owner Bogdan Wolynetz in the AMC television series Breaking Bad In 1986 Stan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Bucharest In 1997 he earned a PhD in chemistry from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Romanian Academy Stan was a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos New Mexico before moving on to the Argonne National Laboratory a national research laboratory jointly operated by the University of Chicago and Department of Energy in 2010 From 2013 to 2015 Stan served in the Office of Nuclear Energy within the United States Department of Energy Stan is also a writer of short fiction and poetry Stan was living in Albuquerque New Mexico during the filming of the first season of AMCs Breaking Bad His two children hoped to be extras in the series so Stan sent the producers a family photo Stans wife and children were picked to be extras but to Stans surprise the producers liked his look and wanted him for a speaking role the owner of the car wash where Walter White works The character of Bogdan Wolynetz and the scenes featuring him were further developed and he would appear in four more episodes