Max CasellaAKA:
Max Deitch
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
06/06/1967 Birthplace:
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biography
A baby-faced character actor, almost invariably cast in teenaged roles, Max Casella is perhaps best known as the wisecracking, sexually frustrated, Runyonesque sidekick to Neil Patrick Harris on the ABC comedy series about a pubescent physician, "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1989-93). The stage-trained actor was raised in the Boston area and made his professional acting debut in a local production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in 1981. After achieving prominence as a TV player, Casella segued to movies with a supporting turn as the wisecracking Racetrack in the ill-fated musical "Newsies" (1992). He went
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milestones
Year
Milestone
Raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1979
Began acting in amateur theatricals in the Boston area after success in sixth grade production of "Pippin" (date approximate)
1981
First professional role in a Boston production of "Cyrano de Bergerac"
1985
Moved to New York with his mother after graduating high school; began taking acting lessons
Apprenticed at Theater 22, an off-off-Broadway theater
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