Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
biography
When he was a young actor auditioning in New York, Bronson Pinchot told a director he refused to do accents, yet it was through accents that this hawk-nosed, olive-skinned comic actor rose to stardom, principally as "Balki," the cousin from an undetermined Balkan nation who comes to live with and torment Mark-Linn Baker on the long-running sitcom "Perfect Strangers" (ABC, 1986-93).Born in New York, but raised in Pasadena, Pinchot attended Yale on a full scholarship and it was there it began to pursue acting. Cast in an off-Broadway play soon after his 1981 graduation, Pinchot was seen by a
