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• Of English, Irish, Italian, Iranian and Armenian descent.
• Grew up in Kansas.
• Was going to play college football but received a scholarship to study acting.
• Worked as a fisherman, playwright, movie theater usher and circus performer.
• Has played a disciple of Batman's villain the Joker multiple times, including The Dark Knight (2008) and the television series Gotham.
• The film Animals (2014) was inspired by his experience with heroin addiction, which earned him the Special Jury Prize for Courage in Storytelling at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival.
• A member of Caffeine Theatre and Shattered Globe Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.