Biographic - Sunday October 12, 2014 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Norman Reedus was born in Hollywood, Florida, on January 6, 1969, and raised in Los Angeles. He lived in London and Japan as a young man, but was working at a motorcycle shop called "Dr. Carl's Hog Hospital" in Venice, California, when he was spotted at a party and cast in a play. He made his screen debut in the 1997 Guillermo Del Toro horror movie "Mimic." By the end of the decade, he was modeling for the likes of Prada, had a son with Supermodel Helena Christensen, and was a cult star thanks to his role in "The Boondock Saints" opposite Willem Dafoe. He continued to rack up credits over the next decade, in projects as diverse as the Wesley Snipes vampire superhero movie "Blade II" the crime thriller "Deuces Wild" and the 2005 biopic "The Notorious Bettie Page" while his tv work included appearences on "Charmed" and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Roles in movies such as "American Gangster" and "The Conspirator" meant that Norman was a familiar face to movie fans... but his major breakthrough came when he was cast as expert tracker Daryl Dixon in the tv phenomenon "The Walking Dead" The character, which didn't exist in the original comic book series and was created specifically for Reedus, has since become one of the show's most popular figures. Besides extensive work as a model, Norman has appeared in many music videos over the years. Early in his career, he was cast in videos for such artists as The Goo Goo Dolls, Ugly Kid Joe, Radiohead, Bjork, and Keith Richards, and in 2011, he appeared in Lady Gaga's "Judas" video. An accomplished painter, sculptor and photographer, he has had exhibitions in New York, Frankfurt and Berlin and released a book of his photography in 2013.

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