Todd Grant Kimsey (June 6, 1962 – September 16, 2016) was an American film, stage and television actor. He appeared in more than forty television roles throughout his career, as well as film roles including The Perfect Storm in 2000, Planet of the Apes in 2001, and Hidalgo in 2004. However, Kimsey may be best known for guest-starring as Ned Isakoff, Elaine Benes's communist boyfriend, in The Race, a 1994 episode of Seinfeld. Kimsey's character was later included in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Best Seinfeld Characters" in 2014. He appeared in the Sliders episode (5/15) "To Catch a Slide" (1999).