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Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many... films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty. On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 1962–66 series McHale's Navy and co-starred in the mid-1980s action series Airwolf, in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine is also known for his role as Mermaid Man in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER. Borgnine was born in Hamden, Connecticut, the son of Anna , who immigrated to the United States from Carpi , and Camillo Borgnino, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ottiglio . His parents separated when he was two years old, and he and his mother went to live in Italy. By 1923, his parents had reconciled, and the family name was changed from Borgnino to Borgnine. The family had settled in North Haven, Connecticut, where he attended public schools.
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Paul Marcarelli is an American actor best known as the "Test Man" or "The Verizon Guy" character in commercials for Verizon Wireless. He appeared... in all of his Verizon commercials wearing a gray Verizon jacket and his own horn-rimmed glasses until 2010. In February 2011, he revived his role as the Verizon test man in a commercial advertising the release of the iPhone 4 for the Verizon Wireless network. He is a native of North Haven, Connecticut. He is a graduate from Lower Moreland High School and received his B.A. in English from Fairfield University. In 2002 he started appearing as the "Test Man" character in Verizon Wireless commercials, for which Entertainment Weekly named him one of most intriguing people of 2002. Marcarelli had already appeared in numerous commercials for companies including Old Navy, Merrill Lynch, Dasani, and Heineken. He also performed in industrial and promotional films, and as a voiceover artist for Comedy Central, United Airlines and Aetna Insurance, among others.
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Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south . Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state. Its capital city is Hartford. Much of southern and western Connecticut is part of the New York metropolitan area; three of... Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area. Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area. Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.
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