Curtis Armstrong

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Biography

American actor

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·soundtrack·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 27 November 1953
  • Place of birth
  • Detroit
  • Education
  • Oakland University

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TV

Books

Trivia

Is an expert on the work of singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.

Attended and graduated from Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan .

Attended and graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Claims that after doing Revenge of the Nerds , everyday of his life someone recognizes him as Booger (although he says this does not bother him in the least).

Classmates with musician Marshall Crenshaw. They both graduated from Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan.

Has played a character nicknamed Booger in Revenge of the Nerds and a character named Snot on "American Dad!" .

After high school, he auditioned for, attended and graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art (in Rochester, Michigan), which is also the alma mater of Robert Englund , Richard Riehle and Jayne Houdyshell.

Has appeared as "that guy" in the 1980s montage commercial for Progressive Insurance.

Best known for his famous line in Risky Business : "Sometimes, you just gotta say, WTF!".

Best known by the public for his role as fraternity brother Booger in Revenge of the Nerds .

Is an investitured member of the Baker Street Irregulars, the literary society dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. In 2006, he was given the investiture "An Actor, and a Rare One", which had previously been the investiture of Richard B. Shull.

Has one daughter: Lily Armstrong (born 1996).

Has English, Italian and Scottish ancestry.

Quotes

I like people who try to do big things.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all.

Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

I tend to not really care for remakes in general. Mainly they are,horrible.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was,it.

Sometimes, a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate,what they did when they were alive.

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