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That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else or less.

Alexis Denisof

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Alexis Denisof
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: February 25
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Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.
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I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of The Avengers, the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.
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In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.
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By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
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I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.
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My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.
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I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
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Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.
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