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  "description": "Brandon Dean (Tecklenburg) was born in Clearwater, Florida.\n\nGraduated from Tarpon Springs High School (Tarpon Springs, Florida).\n\nStarted on the baseball team as an outfielder all four years and holds the record for games played in a season and career.\n\nStarted at Wide Receiver and Punt Returner on the High School football team and was selected on the All-Academic Football Team for Pinellas County.\n\nSchool name was the 'Spongers', which was ranked as the worst high school nickname in the country.\n\nBrandon was named Mr. Sponger in his senior year and participated as a writer and editor for the high school newspaper the \"Serif\" and performed in on stage skits and lip sync contests.\n\nAttended college at Barry University in Miami, Florida on a Baseball Scholarship and got a degree in Broadcast Communications and a Fine Arts Minor in Theatre.\n\nFirst stage audition was for Demetrius and Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights' Dream, but was cast as Theseus. Performed in over a dozen plays before making his screen debut.\n\nStarting outfielder all four years and holds records for games played and sacrifice bunts in a season and career, and in his senior year in college, the Barry baseball team went to the College World Series and lost the Regional Championship game to the University of Tampa.\n\nAttended over a half dozen professional baseball tryouts.\n\nPlayed in only two professional baseball games during a double header for the Huntington Rail Kings in the now defunct Heartland Independent League.\n\nThen went to the Double A Chicago Cubs in Jackson, Tennessee and then the San Francisco Giants Triple A team in Fresno, California.\n\nCame back home to Florida, packed all his belongings and drove across the country to Manhattan Beach, California. Now resides in Playa Del Rey, California.\n\nIn 2005, got his first lead role in a 35mm full length feature film, Zombie Nation, and has been a principal in over 60 national and regional commercials since November of 2004.\n\nGot his first lead role in a feature film by submitting himself from a Backstagewest casting notice.\n\nThought the director/producer (Ulli Lommel) was the cameraman at his first audition and call back.\n\nStudies with Lesly Kahn, Carolyne Barry and Director John Swanbeck. Is a member of TVI, ITA and AIA Actors Studios.\n\nIs a member of the Screen Actors Guild, AFTRA, The Actors Fund of America, AFI, SAG Foundation, AFI/SAG Conservatory, Minor League Baseball Alumni Association, and Association of Professional Ball Players of America.\n\nPlays in local adult baseball league with good friend and actor Jimmy Labrie.\n\nMember of Alpha Delta Gamma National Fraternity and was named Brother of the Year his senior year in college.",
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