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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

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Patrick Dempsey
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 13
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