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An everyman actor with a particularly strong flair for comedy, Josh Zuckerman grew up in Los Altos, CA, in a family of five children and began formally acting at the age of ten, with a series of roles at the nearby Los Altos Playhouse. Zuckerman made his professional on-camera debut in 2000, opposite small-screen mainstays Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Drew Carey in the Disney Channel's musical fantasy Geppetto, then enjoyed guest roles on the hit series NYPD Blue and Once and Again. Zuckerman's assignments continued during his enrollment as a student at Ivy League institution Princeton University, though over time he began to increasingly emphasize big-screen work, notably with supporting roles in the disastrous Ben Affleck-James Gandolfiniholiday comedy Surviving Christmas (2004) and the Evan Rachel Wood black comedy Pretty Persuasion (2005). In 2008, Zuckerman appeared in a multi-episode arc, as Mark, on the ABC Family series Kyle XY. Later that year, Zuckerman signed for one of his first starring roles, as a teen who ventures out on a cross-country road trip, along with two friends, to meet a girl he's been chatting with online and lose his virginity to her, in the teen-oriented sex comedy-road movie Sex Drive.