Modern cinema has given birth to many icons in its time. From Marlon Brando to Robert De Niro, some actors just have that thing about them that makes them unforgettable. 

And nobody captures this spirit better than David Reale … but you probably know him better as his most iconic character, Glenn Coco. 

The film Mean Girls may have been packed with more talent than your average Wetherspoons on a Saturday night, but Glenn was clearly the standout star of the movie, and even inspired the most quotable line of the entire thing: “Four for you Glenn Coco. You go, Glenn Coco.”

Fast-forward 12 years later (AGH, 12), and Glenn is still winning all the candy canes, because as pointed out by Digital Spy, he’s a regulation hottie now.

Every time I see Joe Fuda he takes a picture of me. Glad he is really good at it. “@Fudagraphy: Hey @davidreale !! pic.twitter.com/8rJSbjSpsW”

— David Reale (@davidreale) December 3, 2014

David Reale may not have gotten to show off his actual face on screen during his performance in Mean Girls, but sparking an endless amount of memes has obviously done well for his career. 

The 30-year-old Canadian actor went on to have a recurring role in the American version of Skins, and most recently has been appearing in the show Suits, as IT specialist Benjamin. Not too shabby.

Trapped in a box of infinite vanity, thirty thousand feet in the air.

A photo posted by David Reale (@therealedavid) on Feb 24, 2015 at 3:49pm PST

I get to live with this incredible woman for the next month and a half. #nonna

A photo posted by David Reale (@therealedavid) on Apr 16, 2016 at 7:52am PDT

Talking about the role that put him on the map (maybe) he told Dazed: “I wasn’t ‘officially’ cast in the film at all – my first day was my only day.
 
“What happened was, they ended up filming a lot of the school stuff right across the park from my apartment in Toronto. One day I sort of wandered onto set to see if I could watch some scenes being shot and maybe get some free food (I was a 19-year-old actor with no money so eating was a daily mission).”

And the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.co.uk