Neal Bledsoe (born March , ) is a Canadian and American actor, writer,
and filmmaker.Bledsoe was born in Toronto, but grew up in Seattle,
Washington. He was named after the Beat Generation icon and Merry
Prankster, Neal Cassady, and a car thief from Seattle his father knew
as a boy. Both of his grandfathers served in the Air Force during
World War II and his maternal grandfather was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the bombing of the Nazi oil
refinery at Ploiești. He is the second cousin of former NFL
quarterback, Drew Bledsoe. His mother was a life insurance underwriter
and estate planner before becoming an executive for a company that
worked all over the world. His father has a PhD in Sociology from the
University of Toronto where he studied under the philosopher Marshall
McLuhan.He moved fourteen times around Seattle area growing up, living
in Magnolia, Ballard, Fremont, Edmonds, Magnolia again, Ravenna,
Downtown, Queen Anne, West Seattle, Queen Anne again, Fremont again,
Queen Anne a third time, Bainbridge Island and Capitol Hill. He
attended Roosevelt High School (Seattle) and Garfield High School
(Seattle) in Seattle, including a brief stint at Ascent within the
CEDU system of schools, before finally graduating from the Shawnigan
Lake School and then spending a post-graduate year at the Idyllwild
Arts Academy, to grow as an actor and a writer. It was at the last of
these two schools where he began to first publish his writing.He went
on to study at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts where
he was mentored by the renowned theater director, Gerald Freedman,
earning a BFA in .
and filmmaker.Bledsoe was born in Toronto, but grew up in Seattle,
Washington. He was named after the Beat Generation icon and Merry
Prankster, Neal Cassady, and a car thief from Seattle his father knew
as a boy. Both of his grandfathers served in the Air Force during
World War II and his maternal grandfather was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the bombing of the Nazi oil
refinery at Ploiești. He is the second cousin of former NFL
quarterback, Drew Bledsoe. His mother was a life insurance underwriter
and estate planner before becoming an executive for a company that
worked all over the world. His father has a PhD in Sociology from the
University of Toronto where he studied under the philosopher Marshall
McLuhan.He moved fourteen times around Seattle area growing up, living
in Magnolia, Ballard, Fremont, Edmonds, Magnolia again, Ravenna,
Downtown, Queen Anne, West Seattle, Queen Anne again, Fremont again,
Queen Anne a third time, Bainbridge Island and Capitol Hill. He
attended Roosevelt High School (Seattle) and Garfield High School
(Seattle) in Seattle, including a brief stint at Ascent within the
CEDU system of schools, before finally graduating from the Shawnigan
Lake School and then spending a post-graduate year at the Idyllwild
Arts Academy, to grow as an actor and a writer. It was at the last of
these two schools where he began to first publish his writing.He went
on to study at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts where
he was mentored by the renowned theater director, Gerald Freedman,
earning a BFA in .
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