Steve Zahn

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Steven James Zahn ( ; born November 13, 1967) is an American actor. The films include Realita Bites (1994), That's What You Do! (1996), Out of Sight (1998), Congratulations, Texas (1999) (2001), Shattered Glass (2003), Sahara (2005), Rescue Dawn (2007) Wimpy Kid , Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017).

Zahn has performed voice acting at Chicken Little (2005), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), and The Good Dinosaurs (2015). He has also worked regularly on television, including Davis McAlary's repeated role at HBO's Treme (2010 to 2013).

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Zahn was born in Marshall, Minnesota, Carleton's son Edward Zahn, a Lutheran minister, and Zelda Clair Zahn, a bookstore clerk and later a YMCA administrator. His father was of German and Swedish descent, and his mother was of German descent. Zahn spent part of his childhood in Mankato, Minnesota, attended Kennedy Elementary School, and moved to the Minneapolis suburbs for high school, where he acted in school play and became two-time Minnesota State speech champion. He graduated from Robbinsdale Cooper High School in 1986, planning eventually to join the United States Marine Corps.

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Careers

Zahn attended Gustavus Adolphus College for one semester but dropped out after seeing the original West End production of Les MisÃÆ' Â © rables . "I remember sitting thinking second action, I'm good as a person standing in a barricade," Zahn recalls. "I want to be part of a circus." In 1987, Zahn made his professional stage debut in the Minnesota production of Neil Simon Biloxi Blues after wrongly claiming to be a member of Actors' Equity. His fellow actors suggested that Zahn learn acting, inspire him to enroll in the two-year American Repertory Theater training program. At A.R.T., he worked with honorable stage director Andrei erban.

In 1991, Zahn formed a Malaparte theater company with a group of actor friends, including Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard. From 1991 to 1992, he played Hugo Peabody on a national tour of Bye Bye Birdie, starring Tommy Tune, and then appeared in two Off-Broadway, Sophistry and Eric Bogosian > Suburbia .

After his runaway film role in 1994's Reality Bites, Zahn quickly gained a reputation for playing friendly stoner, slacker, and sidekicks in movies like (1996), You've Got Mail (1998), and Out of Sight (1998). In the 1990s, Zahn was often approached by fans who assumed that he was a first generation Generation X solver, which was not so. He has said, "I am the one who wakes up at six without an alarm clock, I'm always that person."

In 1999, Zahn got his first lead role in the critically acclaimed film Happy , , where he won a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. After Happy, Texas , Zahn starts playing a darker and more nuanced character. She received an Oscar buzz for her role as a former ex Drew Barrymore at Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), and played Adam Penenberg's investigative journal in Shattered Glass (2003). An old fan of Werner Herzog, Zahn campaigned for the role of Vietnamese war prisoner Duane W. Martin in the 2007 film Herzog Rescue Dawn ; to prepare for his role, he lost 40 pounds by eating most of the raw food.

Zahn also works regularly on television, playing the role of Davis McClary on 36 episodes of HBO Treme .

In 2017, Zahn plays Bad Ape on War for the Planet of the Apes. He researched the role by watching a video of chimps on YouTube, and then said that the long digital motion capture and taking process made Bad Ape "the most challenging acting job I ever had".

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Personal life

Zahn met with writer and theater artist Robyn Peterman in 1991 when they performed on the national tour Bye Bye Birdie ; Peterman is the daughter of J. Peterman's outfit. The couple married in 1994 and had two children, Henry (b 2000) and Audrey (b 2002). They live on a 360-acre farm outside Lexington, Kentucky, where Zahn's garden and keep horses, sheep, and sheep. He and his wife also run a local community theater, where Zahn occasionally performs.

Zahn is a lifelong military history buff and has said that one of his greatest regrets is to reject the role in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2007, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Fine Arts from Northern Kentucky University. Kentucky University sports fans, Zahn is often seen in matches and events.

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Movieography

Movies

Television

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References

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External links

• Steve Zahn on IMDb
• Steve Zahn on the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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