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Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is best known as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night... Live from 1985 to 1990. Lovitz was born in Los Angeles, California to Jewish parents of Hungarian, Romanian and Russian descent. His father was a successful physician and was the family doctor for the Jackson family of musical fame. He graduated with a theater degree in 1979 from the University of California at Irvine and then studied acting with Tony Barr at the Film Actors Workshop. He became a member of The Groundlings comedy troupe where he befriended his future SNL fellow Phil Hartman. Lovitz was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. He later said in an interview for the book Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live that his time on SNL was the most memorable in his career. He went from having no money to being offered a $500,000 movie contract. He was nominated for an Emmy Award his first two years on Saturday Night Live.
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Balthazar Getty is an American film actor and member of the band Ringside. He is known for the roles of Thomas Grace on the American action drama... Alias and Tommy Walker on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters. Getty was born Paul Balthazar Getty in Tarzana, California, and raised in San Francisco before being sent to private school in the United Kingdom, where he was enrolled at Gordonstoun School, a boarding school that has educated three generations of the British Royal Family. His great-grandfather was Jean Paul Getty, founder of the Getty Oil Company, and at one time one of the richest men in the world. His grandfather was Sir Paul Getty; his father was John Paul Getty III; his mother, Gisela is a professional photographer and documentary filmmaker. His parents divorced in 1993. He has a maternal half-sister, Anna . Getty began his career at age 14 in 1989. He auditioned for the lead role in the movie Lord of the Flies after being spotted by a talent scout in his art class at school.
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Phillip Glasser is an American actor and producer. He is best known for the role of Fievel Mousekewitz in the animated films, An American Tail and... An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and the television series Fievel's American Tails. In the late 1990s he played the role of Eugene in NBC Saturday morning sitcom Hang Time. He is currently working as a producer for films. His first one he co-produced is Kickin' It Old Skool.
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Blake Lively is an American actress and model who stars as Serena van der Woodsen in the television teen drama series Gossip Girl. She has also... starred in movies, including Accepted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Town and Green Lantern. Lively was born in Tarzana, Los Angeles to actors Ernie and Elaine Lively. She was raised as a Southern Baptist. The youngest of five siblings, Lively has a brother, Eric, two half-sisters, Lori and Robyn, and a half-brother, Jason. Both of her parents and all of her siblings are, or have been, in the entertainment industry. During Lively's childhood, her parents would take her with them to acting classes that they taught because they did not want to leave her with a babysitter. Lively said that watching her parents teach acting classes helped her learn the "drills" of acting and gain confidence as she got older. Lively was initially not particularly interested in acting, however during the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, her brother, Eric, asked his agent to send her out on a few auditions over a period of a few months.
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Michael Bower is an American actor best known for his role as Eddie "Donkeylips" Gelfen on the television program Salute Your Shorts, which was... aired from 1991 to 1992 on Nickelodeon and for which he won a Young Artist Award. Bower made his film debut at age 11, in Michael Jackson's 1988 anthology film Moonwalker, and in 2001 joined the cast of Ivan Reitman's film Evolution. He had appearances in episodic television series such as Webster, Tales from the Crypt, Empty Nest, Superior Court, Hull High, The Wonder Years, and Doogie Howser, M.D., before being brought into Salute Your Shorts for 20 episodes as the major character of Eddie 'Donkeylips' Gelfen. After that series, he continued with guest roles on well-known television series, including that of Monica Geller's prom date on an episode of Friends. He has also appeared in movies such as Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School and Evolution. Bower starred in small time role as "Brain" in an episode of the one-time hit FOX series Dark Angel, prominently in the indie hit Social Misfits, and the short-film Dinner with Raphael .
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Spencer Eli Daniels is an American film and television actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Daniels began acting professionally at the age... of ten. Daniels has appeared in over ten films including Star Trek and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Daniels has also appeared in over ten television productions including the recurring role of Tyler Lomand on the critically acclaimed series Crash.
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