Neal Bledsoe was born on March 26,1981 and is a Canadian-American actor, writer, and filmmaker.
12 Facts About Neal Bledsoe
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Neal Bledsoe's mother was a life insurance underwriter and estate planner before becoming an executive for a company that worked all over the world.
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Neal Bledsoe's father has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto where he studied under the philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
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Neal Bledsoe moved fourteen times around Seattle area growing up, living in Magnolia, Ballard, Fremont, Edmonds, Magnolia again, Ravenna, Downtown, Queen Anne, West Seattle, Queen Anne again, Fremont again, Queen Anne a third time, Bainbridge Island and Capitol Hill.
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Neal Bledsoe attended Roosevelt High School and Garfield High School in Seattle, including a brief stint at Ascent within the CEDU system of schools, before finally graduating from the Shawnigan Lake School and then spending a post-graduate year at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, to grow as an actor and a writer.
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Neal Bledsoe went on to study at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts where he was mentored by the renowned theater director, Gerald Freedman, earning a BFA in 2005.
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Neal Bledsoe got a quick start out of school, booking a pilot opposite Kelly Lynch less than a month after leaving school.
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Neal Bledsoe worked steadily for the next few years, until he had his breakthrough in 2009 on Gossip Girl and Ugly Betty.
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Neal Bledsoe then went on to star on the shows Law and Order: SVU, Smash, Ironside, The Man in the High Castle, The Mysteries of Laura, Timeless, Code Black and most recently, Shameless.
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Neal Bledsoe has won several awards for his work in independent films such as Junction, West End and After the Sun Fell.
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Neal Bledsoe appeared in several campaigns for Tiffany and Co, opposite Dutch model, Doutzen Kroes.
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In December 2022, Neal Bledsoe announced that he was leaving the Great American Family network because of their anti-LGBTQ stance.