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Pete Holmes was born on 30 March 1979 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Dropout (2006), Woman of the Hour (2023) and Crashing (2017). He has been married to Valerie Chaney since 2017.

Amanda Palmer was born on 30 April 1976 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. She is a composer and actress, known for How I Live Now (2013), Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra: Do It with a Rockstar (2012) and Happy! (2017). She has been married to Neil Gaiman since 2 January 2011. They have one child.

Rachel Dratch grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Drama and Psychology, she moved to Chicago, where she studied with Del Close at Improvolympic. She was on the house team, "Victim's Family", with Adam McKay. Rachel went on to tour with the Second City Touring Company and eventually advanced to the Second City Mainstage, where she appeared in four revues: "Pinata Full of Bees", "Citizen Gates", "Paradigm Lost", and "Promisekeepers Losers Weepers". For the latter two, she received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Revue. After leaving the mainstage, she wrote and performed in the two-person sketch show, "Dratch and Fey", with Tina Fey. The show was seen at Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC, and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In the fall of 1999, Rachel joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975), where she performed for seven years. Her memorable characters include Boston teen Denise, the Lovers professors with Will Ferrell, junior high school student Sheldon, and Debbie Downer.

Dane DiLiegro has had quite the journey on his way to Hollywood.

Born in Massachusetts, he was a four-year starter for the NCAA Division I University of New Hampshire Wildcats basketball team. While attending UNH, Dane won a gold medal at the 2009 summer Maccabiah Games in Israel. He graduated with the second all-time rebounding record, Dane went on to put his 6'8" 245lb frame to use and play eight years of professional basketball playing for top-level teams in Italy and Israel.

While in Italy, Dane lived with and served as an apprentice for world-famous Tuscan butcher Dario Cecchini over a five year period. He is still heavily involved in culinary arts and maintains a YouTube channel surrounding food and travel.

In the summer of 2019, Dane retired from professional basketball to pursue acting. Within two weeks, he booked his first acting role as Muscle Monster in the Netflix show Sweet Home. He also appeared in The Walking Dead and Side Hustle. In 2021, Dane portrayed the titular character Ba'al in the fifth episode of American Horror Stories opposite Billie Lourde.

Additionally, Dane starred across Doja Cat in her music video Get Into It (Yuh).

Dane starred in Prey (2022) as The Predator and appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3.

Dane will appear in Tom Delonge's upcoming feature film Monsters of California, and Lucasfilm's upcoming Star Wars show, Skeleton Crew.

Dane lives in Los Angeles, and attends the Stella Adler Academy. He continues to pursue his dream of starring in film in television shows despite his large stature.

Orny Adams was born on 10 November 1970 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Teen Wolf (2011), Funny People (2009) and Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023).

Dionne Quan is an Asian-American voice actress from Lexington, Massachusetts. She voiced Kimi from the Rugrats franchise starting with the 2000 film Rugrats in Paris and Trixie Tang from Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents franchise, both long running Nicktoons. She also voiced in other cartoons such as Curious George. She is legally blind and her scripts are written in braille.

Phoebe Legere is a New York-based singer and actress, known for her sensual stage performances while playing the accordion, violin and guitar. Her best-known song is "Marilyn Monroe," which she performs at the beginning of the film Mondo New York.

Brad Ellis is an American composer, musical director, orchestrator and jazz pianist. Ellis is perhaps most visible as the quiet teacher/piano accompanist for the high school kids on Glee, the Fox television show for which he is part of creator Ryan Murphy's musical production team. Ellis had a long association with the continuously evolving Off-Broadway satirical revue Forbidden Broadway.

His Brad Ellis Little Big Band has released recordings, as produced by Bruce Kimmel.

Ellis arranged, orchestrated and conducted members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their 2006 album Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars, in support of the Philharmonic's "Music Matters" fund for music education. The album featured performances by TV and film stars including Victor Garber, Lucy Lawless, and Scarlett Johansson.

In 2006 Ellis orchestrated and arranged the world premiere of Billy Joel's "Waltz Variations no.2 op.5", performed by Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra, for the 151st Anniversary Gala celebration of Philadelphia's Academy of Music.

He created, with Jason Alexander, Seven Broadway Shows in 7 Minutes. This witty medley was performed by Alexander with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, when the orchestra inducted its long-time conductor John Mauceri into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2007. Ellis is the composer of the original music for the 2009 Off Broadway run of The Tin Pan Alley Rag, which told the story of a fictional meeting between musical greats Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin.

Ellis has composed or played piano for many TV shows and films, including Gilmore Girls, Close to Home, Delovely and the DVD special features for Beauty and the Beast.

Brad was featured in interviews with People magazine, CNN.com and NPR about his character on Glee.

The Academy of Television Arts and Science (the Emmys) bestowed a certificate of honor to Brad Ellis, in June 2010, for his contributions of original music and lyrics to the opening number for 2009 Oscars, starring Hugh Jackman, as the host. Jackman was awarded the Emmy in 2009 for his performance of the opening number Ellis helped to create for the telecast.

Julius Sharpe was born on 5 December 1972 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Family Guy (1999), Dads (2013) and Making History (2017).

Daniel Dratch was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. Daniel is a producer and writer, known for Monk (2002), Anger Management (2012) and Breakout Kings (2011).

Ethan Zohn lived in Zimbabwe for a year where he played for the Highlanders football team. He is still incredibly passionate about Zimbabwe and goes back frequently. In November 2005 he met with Zimbabwean film maker Chloe Traicos to suggest ways to help people over there. He is a celebrity who uses his fame to help people less fortunate than himself.

Anna Sheridan was born on 5 December 1990 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for The Amazing Extraordinary Friends (2007) and FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman (2006).

Matt Nathanson was born on 28 March 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for CHIPS (2017), American Wedding (2003) and Dawn Patrol (2014).

Abe Laboriel Jr. was born on 23 March 1971 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), The Failures (2003) and Bratz (2007).

Krystal Watanabe was born on 19 June 1982 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Clean (2002). She died on 2 April 2022 in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

Justin Owades was born on 28 July 1987 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is an editor, known for Happy Death Day (2017), It's All Relative (2007) and Little Birds (2011).

Paul Vincent Fusco studied Business Management and Economics at Curry College for two years, before he transferred to Emerson College to study Theatre Set Design, which lead to an interdisciplinary degree in Television and Film production. Here Paul received two Evvy award nominations for a 30 second public service announcement and 15 minute television talk show, both of which he wrote, produced and directed. Later he attended Mass Art to study drawing.

After college, Paul worked as an engineering model builder at A&M models, where he honed his craft in preparation for Hollywood's Special Effects field. With portfolio in hand, Paul quickly found himself working for Roger Corman as a model builder and later went onto to work at Landmark Entertainment Group before setting out to start Precision Effects with Michael Hood ...which all started with a phone call Paul made to James Cameron.

This secured the company's first feature film credit on The Abyss (1989). He then parted ways with Precision and continued to work for years on various feature film projects, commercials and theme park attractions in various capacities, utilizing his various talents as a model builder, prop maker,set designer and story board artist.

In 1989, Paul had written his second feature screenplay entitled "Tooth Fairy', which was submitted by Steven Baio to Trimark Entertainment.The screenplay was well received and had shown strong interest with producer Roger Birnbaum. A hand shake agreement was made and Paul found himself attached not only as a writer, but first time director as well.The project fell into turn around and remains unproduced, however the screenplay caught the attention of Stu Segall, producer of Silk Stalkings (1991) and Renegade (1992). This led to Paul's first television writing assignment, which led to renewed interest in his 'Tooth Fairy' screenplay. The project again fell through.

Paul continued to earn his living in the effects industry, when in the summer of 1994 he took another step toward directing with the short film action-thriller 'Self Sanction.' He wrote and Co-produced with Patricia Neal. His second writer/directorial effort was 'Dumpy the Donut', whose cast was comprised of life sized human puppets, which Paul and fellow effects artist Mark Villalobos labored over nine months to construct.

Both short films were awarded the Platinum Remi at the 2006 Houston World Fest in both the Suspense/Thriller and Horror/Fantasy categories.

At present, Paul has focused full time on his writing and directing having recently signed with the Barry Perelman Literary Agency. His psychological horror thriller Night Terrors was nominated as a 2007 Quarter Finalist in The American Screenwriting Association's 10th annual international script competition.

He is a recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research that led to the development of Covid vaccines. His co-laureate is Professor Katalin Kariko. He is on the medical school faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he was a fellow at the NIH where he carried out research on HIV. He received a bachelor's and master's degree from Brandeis University, and his MD and PhD from Boston University.

Elaine Coyne was born on 12 May 1967 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Misfit Patrol (1996), We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992) and Hoggs' Heaven (1994). She was married to Paul Coyne. She died on 9 April 1994 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Richard Gustin was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

Dick Metchear was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 23 February 2019 in Naples, Florida, USA.

Jason Pasquale was born on 23 December 1978 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Greg Behrendt Is Uncool (2005) and Chupacabra Terror (2005).

Marjorie Robb was born on 12 February 1889 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 11 June 1992 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA.