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David Patrick Boreanaz Jr. was born on May 16th 1971 in Buffalo, New York. His family moved to Philadelphia when his dad Dave Roberts a former showman became a tv weatherman for WPVI.
David attended Malvern Prep school where he was on the football team until a knee injury forced him to give it up. He decided he wanted to become an actor after his parents took him to see "The King And I" at the theatre. After he had graduated from high school, David attended Ithaca college in New York where he studied for a film degree. After four years of study in New York and a film degree, David moved to Los Angeles in the hope of finding work in film production. David's first job in television and film was as a prop master. After some confusion on set David ended up in front of the camera instead of behind, this gave him the inspiration to try acting as a career. In 1993 David appeared in "Aspen Extreme" and "Best of the Best II" , in both of which he appeared as an extra . He also landed his first television role as Frank in "Married with Children" for one episode on the FOX network. During 1994 and 1995 David appeared in the stage shows Hatful of rain and Italian-American reconciliation. He also had a series of jobs, which included parking cars, selling frozen meat and handing out towels at a health club. In 1996 he performed in an Equity waiver production of Fool for love. This was also the year that he was signed by an acting agency,This came about after he was spotted by the manager of the agency while he was out walking Bertha Blue. The next day David auditioned for a new series, Buffy the vampire slayer, which was to be shown on the new WB network. The character David auditioned for was that of Angel a vampire. David was chosen and he began filming the next day. The rest as the saying goes "is history". Buffy the vampire slayer is a huge success and is gaining more fans everyday by the third season, David was given his own spin-off show Angel, which looks likely to follow in the footsteps of Buffy. In 1998 David became a spokesman for Levi's Original Spin program, making promotional appearances around America, designing some custom jeans that were auctioned off to help the organization peace 2000. |
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