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May 10, 1968 in Yonkers, NY
Biography:"Erik Palladino" was supposed to join the family's heat contracting business. Raised in Yonkers by his schoolteacher mother and contractor father, the 12-year-old Palladino caught the acting bug from "Robert De Niro"'s famed performance as Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull". He quickly joined a local children's repertory company and soon began hosting a heavy metal television show in New York. But like many actors, the adult Palladino took the long road to success. He built an arrest record, struggled through New York's Marymount Manhattan College, sang in a mediocre indie rock band, and survived several canceled television shows. By the late '90s, Palladino had a familiar face -- as a regular on Comedy Central, a voluble MTV video jockey, an indolent stepson on Murphy Brown, and "Jennifer Love Hewitt"'s unctuous cousin in "Can't Hardly Wait" (1998) -- but not a well-known name. However, perseverance and... Full Biography
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