Despite his accomplished dramatic credits and serious training at the Lee Strasberg Institute (even scoring the Strasberg Studio Award), handsome, dark-haired actor Ken Marino was best known to many in the MTV generation as a member of the network's zany sketch comedy series "The State" (1994-95). The Long Island-born performer studied drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and at the Circle Rep Summer School of the Arts in addition to his other training. Marino got his feet wet with school productions of "Pippin" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs" while post-graduation, he could be seen in the
