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Jim Meskimen |
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From 1987 through 1992 he was the spokesman for Skaggs Alpha Beta grocery stores for which he improvised commercials
that garnered a collection of prestigious advertising awards.
He has appeared on series television in Whose Line is it, Anyway?, a British comedy-improv show now
seen on Comedy Central, and in a recurring role on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Other television credits
include Seinfeld, Third Rock from the Sun, Grace Under Fire, Ned and Stacey,
Seven Days, Family Matters and To Have and To Hold. Jim's feature film debut was in Ron
Howard's The Paper (1993), starring Michael Keaton and Glenn Close.
Jim Meskimen studied theater and art all his early life and graduated from the University of California, Santa
Cruz with a Bachelor's Degree in fine art after working extensively in oil painting, drawing and lithography, while
also working in the theater.
Meskimen credits L. Ron Hubbard and his best-selling book, Dianetics for his success. "In 1982 I read Dianetics
and started to apply the information I learned in the book to every aspect of my life which I was dissatisfied
with," Jim Meskimen grew up in a theatrical family; his sister Ellen is an improvisational actress and singer who for two seasons wrote for NBC's Veronica's Closet and now writes for Friends, his late father, Freeman, was an actor and director, and his mother is Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress Marion Ross of TV's Happy Days and the critically acclaimed Brooklyn Bridge. Jim performed improvisational theater with the award-winning ensemble Interplay, under the artistic direction of Tamara Wilcox-Smith for 13 years. He and his wife Tamra Meskimen have been fixtures in the improvisation theater community in New York and Los Angeles and currently perform with The Really Spontaneous Theatre Company. They live in Los Angeles.
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