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I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

Noah Baumbach

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Extension
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Interested
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Music

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