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Paul Giamatti (born June 6, 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American actor who excels at portraying likable idiosyncratic everyman characters. Giamatti was born into an intellectually active family; his mother, Toni Giamatti, was a former actor who taught English at a preparatory school, and his father, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was a professor and president of Yale University before becoming commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB). After graduating with a degree in English from...