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I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

Steve Carell

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Steve Carell
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 16
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Massachusetts
Steven John Steve Carell
Steven John Carell
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