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Jamie Kennedy Biography

Birth Name:
Jamie Harvey Kennedy
Birth Place:
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession
Actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter

Fast Facts

  • Made his film debut as an uncredited extra in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society
  • First big-screen success came in 1996 with the smash horror-comedy Scream, in which he played sarcastic Randy Meeks
  • Landed his own series in 2002, hidden-camera prank show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, which ran for three seasons on The WB
  • Released an autobiography, Wannabe: A Hollywood Experiment---co-authored by Ellen Rapaport---in 2003
  • Cowrote and starred in the 2003 comedy Malibu's Most Wanted, a minor hit based on the white rapper character B-Rad from his Experiment series

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