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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

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Nathan Fillion
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 27
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Nathan Christopher Fillion
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