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I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!

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Peter Jacobson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 24
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