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Skylar Astin

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Skylar Astin was born Skylar Astin Lipstein in New York and grew up in Rockland County, part of upstate NY Area. He is the son of Meryl and Barry Lipstein, a garment industry executive. Astin has two brothers, Jace and Milan, and a sister, Brielle. He attended Clarkstown High School North. After graduation he attended New York University, as a student in the Tisch School of the Arts. He took a leave of absence to join the original cast of Spring Awakening as Georg on Broadway. He was in the show for close to a year before moving to LA and starting his acting career in movies and TV shows.
- IMDb mini biography by: Annie Scruuggs

His agent chose his middle name Astin to be his stage name when he was fifteen.
He is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.
(September 10, 2016) Married his girlfriend of 3 years, Anna Camp, in an outdoor ceremony on the central California coast, following a 8-month-long engagement.
Before becoming famous, Skylar worked in the deli of a natural foods store called Back To Earth in New City, New York.
(April 19, 2019) His wife, Anna Camp, filed for divorce.

There are definitely times where I am listening to the radio, and I think, 'That would be awesome. I would love to sing that.' It's this weird karaoke fantasy that I might someday get to live out on the big screen.
A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.
I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.
I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

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