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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Screenwriter, Actor Born: July 30, 1971 in Pembroke, Ontario (Canada) Biography:A noted purveyor of fin-de-siècle shock comedy, Canadian "Tom Green" aimed to transform his gross-out TV stardom into movie fame (or infamy) with his 2001 directorial debut, "Freddy Got Fingered".
Raised in Ottawa, Green began to hone his comic skills as a teenager, pulling gags for the amusement of his friends. Along with doing stand-up while in college, Green released a rap album and created a hit radio show at the University of Ottawa. After graduation, Green managed to get the first incarnation of his signature TV series, "The Tom Green Show", on local Ottawa television in 1994. A hit, "The Tom Green Show" landed on Canada's Comedy Network and officially hit the big time when MTV bought it and began airing it in the U.S. in 1999. During its two years on MTV, the show garnered high ratings due to Green's penchant for pushing the limits of taste with such gags as shagging a dead moose and... Full Biography
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