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I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

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Jenna Fischer
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 7
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Regina Marie Fischer
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I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
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I say it was like this accidental research that I did for eight years. I had no idea I was researching the role of my career. But yeah, and there was this one casting director named Allison Jones, and for five years she would call me in every year for a different TV show and she just really was a big supporter of mine.
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I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.
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I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
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