1. Evan Handler was raised in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, near Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York.
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Evan Handler then attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division's Group 12, which included Kevin Spacey, Ving Rhames, and Elizabeth McGovern.
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Evan Handler left the four-year program after less than two years to accept a role in the 1981 film Taps.
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Evan Handler was a co-star in the ABC sitcoms It's Like, You Know.
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Evan Handler has appeared in several major feature film roles, including Ransom, 1996; The Chosen, 1981; Sweet Lorraine, 1987; and Taps, 1981.
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In 2000, Evan Handler portrayed Larry Fine in the made-for-TV biopic The Three Stooges.
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Evan Handler played Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in the HBO movie, Too Big to Fail.
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In 1991, Evan Handler famously walked off stage during the first act of a performance of the Broadway play I Hate Hamlet after co-star Nicol Williamson broke choreography during a sword-fighting scene and struck Evan Handler on the backside.
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In 2020, Evan Handler appeared as a guest on the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraiser episode of The George Lucas Talk Show.
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Evan Handler has written for several nationally distributed magazines, including ELLE, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Mirabella.
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In 2014 Evan Handler starred in a public service announcement supporting DC Statehood.
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Evan Handler attended the Creative Coalition's DC Statehood Dinner in December 2015 and participates in DC Shadow Senator Paul Strauss's "51 Stars" campaign which aims to enlist 51 celebrities to endorse making Washington, DC the 51st state.