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Greg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, USA to Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat with the US State Department, and Suzanne (nee Buck) Kinnear, a homemaker. He has two brothers -- James, vice president-investments at Wachovia Securities in Arizona who was born in 1957, and Steve, a business manager with the Billy Graham Training Center in North Carolina who was born in 1959. His family moved often, including Lebanon and Greece. While a student in Athens, Greg first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear".

Returning to college in the States, he attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, graduating in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He headed out to Los Angeles, landing his first job as a marketing assistant with Empire Entertainment. He auditioned to be an MTV VJ, but was not selected and became an on-location reporter for the channel. He had bit parts on L.A. Law (1986) and Life Goes On (1989). He would later become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of Best of the Worst (1991) (1990-91). His breakthrough was as first host of Talk Soup (1991) (1994), when he left the show for the NBC late-night talk show, Later (1994).

In 1994, Kinnear had his first big screen role, as a talk show host in the Damon Wayans comedy Blankman (1994). In 1995 he won the role of David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 classic Sabrina (1995). Next was the lead in the 1996 comedy Dear God (1996). In 1997, he was cast in James L. Brooks's blockbuster comedy-drama As Good as It Gets (1997), receiving an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor. In his next film, the romantic comedy A Smile Like Yours (1997), he starred opposite Lauren Holly as part of a couple trying to have a baby. The film met with lukewarm reviews and a low box office.

His next film, You've Got Mail (1998), struck gold. He played Meg Ryan's significant other, a newspaper columnist. Next he played Captain Amazing in Mystery Men (1999). His more recent films have Nurse Betty (2000), Loser (2000), and Someone Like You (2001).

Lived in Beirut, Lebanon for almost nine months in 1975 due to his father&#39;s position with the State Department. After fighting broke out in Lebanon, his father was reassigned to the American Embassy in Athens, Greece and the family remained there for seven years.

1985: Attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated in Broadcast
Journalism.

Daughter Lily Kathryn Kinnear born September 12, 2003.

13 June, 2006: He and wife Helen became the parents of a second girl, Audrey Mae.

2001: He and wife Helen had a baby, but unfortunately it was stillborn.

Became a father for the third time when his wife gave birth to daughter, Katie Grace Kinnear in October 2009.

&quot;Kinnear&quot; is used as a verb meaning to surreptitiously photograph someone and was coined by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a., The Yarn Harlot, www.yarnharlot.ca/blog); published in an article in the New York Times, &quot;All We Are Saying&quot; (December 23, 2007).

He was one of the 4 guys to audition for the hosting job of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt1577766/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Wheel of Fortune (1975)</a>, when the show moved from NBC to CBS, at that time, however, the job was given to <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0324407/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Bob Goen</a>.

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