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10 Facts About Cameron Finley

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Cameron Finley was born on August 30,1987 and is an American former child actor and molecular biologist.

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Cameron Finley continued acting until the age of 13, at which time he chose to quit acting so he could go to school full-time and "be a normal kid".

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Cameron Finley graduated in 2010 from UC San Diego with a degree in molecular biology.

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Cameron Finley starred in his first national commercial, for Shell Oil, when he was three years old and living with his family in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas.

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Cameron Finley featured in commercials for such companies as Taco Bell, Shout, and Brink's Security.

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In 1997, after beating out more than 5,000 other boys in a nationwide search, Cameron Finley played the title character in the Leave It to Beaver film.

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Cameron Finley then appeared in Hope Floats as Travis, a sad child who dresses up as a dozen different characters ranging from Barney the Dinosaur to Charlie Chaplin.

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Cameron Finley starred in the 2000 direct-to-video Disney movie Perfect Game, in which he played Kanin, a boy driven by the ghost of his deceased father to show that he can play baseball as well as anyone on the championship Little League team.

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Since leaving acting in 2000, Cameron Finley graduated from high school and went to study at the University of California, San Diego.

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Cameron Finley has worked as a researcher in molecular biology, and has published a number of academic research articles in his field.