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ZOOMER Greg Kinnear stars in FLASH OF GENIUS
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Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, the son of Suzanne, a homemaker, and Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the U.S. State Department.
As a child, Greg and his family moved around a lot, from places as far as Beirut, Lebanon to Athens, Greece, and was therefore part of a group sometimes referred
to as Foreign Service Brats.
While a student at the American Community Schools in Athens, Greg first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear".
Returning to the States for a college education, he attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism.
From Arizona, Kinnear headed out to Los Angeles, where he landed his first job as a marketing assistant with Empire Entertainment. Following this job he auditioned
to be an MTV VJ, but failed and became a host and on-location reporter for Movietime, which later became E! Entertainment Television.
He would later become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of Best of the Worst which aired from 1990 to 1991. In 1991 he received his breakthrough when
he became the first host of Talk Soup until 1995.
In 1995 he won the part of the David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 classic Sabrina. He then received the lead role in the 1996 comedy
Dear God.
In 1997, Greg was cast in James L. Brooks' blockbuster comedy-drama As Good as It Gets, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
His next film, You've Got Mail, struck gold. He played Meg Ryan's significant other, a newspaper columnist. His next films were Nurse Betty,
Loser, Someone Like You and now Flash of Genius.
photo credits: Universal Pictures, 2008.
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