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Kevin Weisman

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Kevin Weisman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. The acting bug took hold early at Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, where Kevin acted in and directed a wide variety of published work and original pieces, and placed highly in many Southern California theater festivals. Kevin decided to stay in Los Angeles, and went on to receive a BA from UCLA's prestigious School of Theatre/Film/Television. At UCLA, Kevin met and worked with what would later become the other founding members of the award winning, critically acclaimed Buffalo Nights Theater Company. Upon graduation, Kevin went on to study at New York 's renowned Circle in The Square Theatre.

In addition to acting, Kevin serves as producer on most Buffalo Nights shows. Recent shows with the company include, the title role of Griffith J. Griffith in Robert Fieldsteel's Crazy Drunk (Garland Award for acting) at the landmark John Anson Ford Theatre in Hollywood, one of the three ever- present clowns in Archibald McCleish's J.B., and the title role of Anatol in Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol. Other shows with the company include Jean Giraudoux's Apollo Of Bellac (Garland for Production of the Year, 7 LA Weekly Award Nominations), Madman And The Nun, The Firebugs, George Walker's Suberban Motel, Ethan Lipton's Hope On The Range, Arthur Miller's Incident At Vichy, Oscar Wilde's Salome, and the West Coast Premiere of Jonathon Marc Sherman's Sophistry. Other theater favorites include 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (Odyssey Theater), The Greeks (Odyssey - 1999 Production of the Year, LA Weekly) and The Goldoni Trilogy (Mark Taper).

Kevin recently wrapped five years as series regular, "Marshall J. Flinkman" on ABC's hit drama and cult favorite, Alias. Other television credits include recurring roles on Felicity, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, guest appearances on X-Files, Frasier, E.R., Just Shoot Me, and Ghost Whisperer. Film work includes The Terminal, Gone in 60 Seconds, Robbers, Man of the Century (1998 Slamdance Audience Award Winner), and the recently released Clerks 2, directed by Kevin Smith.

He also produced (and appeared in) the feature film, The Illusion, starring Kirk Douglas, Karen Tucker and Michael Goorjian, and directed by Buffalo Nights Theatre Company member Michael Goorjian, and starring Kirk Douglas. The Illusion premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival, where it won the coveted Screenwriting award, and was the recipient of the audience award at both the Palm Springs Festival and the Sonoma Valley Film Festival

Kevin is an avid supporter of Children's charities and organizations, such as the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, The Children's Defense Fund, Wheels For Humanity, and Koreh LA, a Los Angeles based Jewish organization that assists kids in advancing their reading skills. He is also involved in the fight against Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, serving as a board member of the DMDfund (dmdfund.org).

Kevin and his lovely wife Jodi have one daughter, Maya Rose, born March 31, 2006.

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Plays drums in the band Trainwreck with Kyle Gass from Tenacious D.

Daughter, Maya Rose Weisman, born 31 March 2006 at 1:57 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds and 1 ounce.

Appeared on Entertainment Weekly's Must List in July of 2004, and TV Guide's Top Ten Scene Stealers in March, 2006.

Is expecting his second baby in February 2008.

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