1. Kevin Dunn was born on August 24,1955 and is an American character actor who has appeared in supporting roles in numerous films and television series since the 1980s.
13 Facts About Kevin Dunn
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Kevin Dunn has had recurring roles on True Detective in 2014 and on the TV series adaptation of The Mosquito Coast in 2021.
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Kevin Dunn was born in Chicago, the son of John Kevin Dunn, a musician and poet, and his wife Margaret, a nurse.
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Kevin Dunn has a brother, Michael Dunn, a high school history teacher and football coach.
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Kevin Dunn was raised in a Catholic family, and has Irish, English, Scottish, and German ancestry.
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Kevin Dunn graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977, and received an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the same school.
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Kevin Dunn appeared in many live performances in Chicago and its suburbs, including the theater companies Northlight, Remains, Wisdom Bridge and Goodman before his TV and motion picture career.
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Kevin Dunn played Murry Wilson in a 2000 miniseries, The Beach Boys: An American Family.
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From 2004 to 2006 Kevin Dunn had a small recurring role as Terry Hardwick, a baseball coach and mentor to Tyler Hoechlin character Martin Brewer, on the long-running family drama 7th Heaven.
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Kevin Dunn played Joel Horneck, Jerry's overzealous childhood friend, in the Seinfeld episode "Male Unbonding".
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Kevin Dunn has featured in Live Free or Die as well as the 2006 film Gridiron Gang.
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Kevin Dunn is an executive producer of the award-winning documentary film Kumpania: Flamenco Los Angeles.
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Kevin Dunn played the role of White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty in HBO's late 2010s political comedy Veep.