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As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.

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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
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