Thibodeau was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He can be seen in episodes of Tales from the Crypt (1991, with John Kassir and Charles Picerni, Jr.), Tequila & Bonetti (1992, with Charles Rocket, Dana Sparks, and Marnie McPhail), Days of Our Lives (2000, with Renée Jones), Level 9 (2000, with Leslie Hope, Willie Garson, and J. Patrick McCormack), Carnivàle (2005, with Michael John Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Diane Salinger, Robert Knepper, John Carroll Lynch, and Scott MacDonald), and Deadwood. More recently he appeared on the television series Party Down (2010).