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• Is the child of two former stage actors who met while acting in New York City, but who both gave up the profession to start a family.
• Studied dance as a child, training in ballet, jazz and tap.
• Became interested in acting as a teenager, when he switched his focus from dance to drama.
• Worked at a casting agency while in high school. 
• Auditioned for the roles of both Lip and Ian on Shameless before being cast as Lip, a character he describes as being very different from himself.