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I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

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Rainn Wilson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 20
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