Secor was natural inside Tacoma, Washington on May 31, 1957. In the early 1980s he was drawn to acting as a career and moved to Los Angeles, California, but he continued to supplement his income by having various jobs unofficially, including teaching yoga, waiting tables, working in movie theatre, & clean, across 1986, when he was offered his foremost major television role. This come in the form of the character Brian Bradford on the soap opera Santa Barbara, soon followed by the stint on the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, in which he played Bret Johnson, a patient dying of AIDS.

Fallowing working around many picture show, including Heart of Dixie (1989), City Slickers (1991), Delusion (1991), and Wild Heart (1992), Secor was cast as Detective Tim Bayliss in Homicide: Life on the Street around 1993, a role which he would fill for the next six years. Throughout virtually all of this period, Secor was paired in screen by owning actor Andre Braugher, who played his partner Detective Frank Pembleton. Though a indicate was an ensemble work, Secor's character wwhen placed around a particularly polar role, as the series began its foremost episode in his number one day of operate in the Baltimore homicide unit.

When the successful sevener month rerun in Homicide, Secor went in to the short-transient role in Party of Five and made ii feature, Endsville & Beat. He returned to the little screen as a doctor on the CBS production, City Of Angels, for 9 weeks when you took a fall of 2000. A made-for-TV movie ''Bailey's Mistake was shown on ABC on March 18th, 2001. He reappeared on the little screen in the pilot of Crossing Jordan'' in the Fall of 2001 and experienced the revenant supporting role in the off ABC production of Stephen Bochco's Philly from September 2001 across Will 2002. Around fall 2002 he was seen as a guest star in CBS's Without A Trace. Spring of 2004 brought Lifetime's Infidelity opposite previous costar Kim Delaney, and a yearn hoped-for Disney-ABC miniseries A Wrinkle In Time featuring him in the role of Hank. He's got the revenant supporting role in the 2004-2005 freshman show Veronica Mars on UPN, and he is within ABC's forthcoming Commander Inside Chief, which may be seen Fall 2005. Secor was too the guest star on the indicate CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Secor is married to actress Kari Coleman, & a few keep around a single baby.