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Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn promoting Sahara
Birth name	Steven James Zahn
Born	November 13, 1967 (age 39) Marshall, Minnesota, USA
Spouse(s)	Robyn Peterman (1994-present) 2 children

Steven James Zahn (born November 13, 1967) is an American comedian and actor of both film and stage.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 External links

Zahn is originally from Marshall, Minnesota and is the son of Carleton Edward Zahn, a Lutheran pastor, and Zelda Clair Gades. After attending Robbinsdale Cooper High School, Gustavus Adolphus College and Harvard University, his first acting role was in Biloxi Blues; a Minnesota production; but his first big break came in 1994, when he was noticed by Ben Stiller, who cast him in his picture, Reality Bites.

Zahn's early roles were split between movies and TV shows. He played Phoebe Buffay's husband Duncan in a 1995 episode of Friends. Zahn appeared in several films in the mid-1990s, including Tom Hanks's That Thing You Do!. These films garnered him enough respect that he was offered the starring role in the critically-acclaimed indie film Happy, Texas (1999). Some of Zahn's most popular movies have been his most recent ones, including National Security (2003) in which he starred opposite Martin Lawrence, and Daddy Day Care (2003). Zahn received his strongest critical acclaim for his performance in Riding in Cars with Boys, in which he co-starred with Drew Barrymore as her dim-witted, drug addicted boyfriend. Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper and the BBC stated that the performance was deserving of an Oscar nomination. He also voiced Runt of the Litter in Chicken Little.

Off the screen, Zahn is an avid fly fisherman, and he owns a farm in western New Jersey. Zahn is married to Robyn Peterman, an actress and the daughter of John Peterman, whom Zahn met on a touring production of Bye Bye Birdie. The two have a son, Henry James Zahn, born in 2000. In 2004 the family moved from New Jersey to a small horse farm near Lexington, Kentucky, his wife's hometown.

• Comanche Moon (2007) - Augustus "Gus" McCrae
• Bandidas (2006) - Quentin Cooke
• Rescue Dawn (2006) - Duane
• Chicken Little (2005) — Runt
• Sahara (2005) — Al Giordino
• Employee of the Month (2004) — Jack
• Speak (2004) - Mr. Freeman
• Shattered Glass (2003) — Adam Penenberg
• Daddy Day Care (2003) — Marvin
• National Security (2003) — Hank Rafferty
• Joy Ride (2001) - Fuller Thomas
• Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) — Ray Hasek
• Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) (voice) — Archie
• Saving Silverman (2001) — Wayne Lefessier
• Hamlet (2000) — Rosencrantz
• Stuart Little (1999) (voice) — Monty the Mouth
• Happy, Texas (1999) — Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr., aka David
• Freak Talks About Sex (1999) — "Freak"
• Out of Sight (1998) — Glenn Michaels
• You've Got Mail (1998) — George Pappas
• From the Earth to the Moon (1998) TV miniseries — Astronaut Elliott See
• That Thing You Do! (1996) — Lenny Haise
• subUrbia (1996) - Buff
• Crimson Tide (1995) — William Barnes
• Reality Bites (1994) — Sammy Grayn

• Dude! It's The Steve Zahn Fan Forum!
  
• CM's Steve Zahn Picture Gallery
  
• CM's Steve Zahn Fanpage
  
• Steve Zahn at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC film critic BBC review of 'Riding in Cars with Boys', suggests Academy Award nomination for Zahn.