Born: June 08, 1965

Best known as the younger (by one year) brother of talented but ill-fated Saturday_Night_Live comedian Chris_Farley, Kevin Farley followed in the footsteps of his older sibling and established himself as a comedic screen presence in his own right. He grew up in Madison, WI, as the third of five children and the son of an asphalt company owner, and -- like Chris -- soon fell into a niche as the class clown. Both young men grew up as members of the Saturday_Night_Live generation and idolized performers such as John_Belushi and Bill_Murray beyond belief; Kevin attended Marquette University as a business major (graduating in 1986) and went to work for his dad. He grew to hate the business life and eventually moved to Chicago and enrolled in comedy classes, then relocated to Los Angeles and began signing for bit parts in Chris' features, such as Tommy_Boy and Black_Sheep, as well as guest spots in series programs such as That_'70s_Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun.


Following Chris' death from an overdose in December 1997, Kevin landed a starring role on the briefly run MTV sitcom 2Gether, then moved into features, with an unsurprising emphasis almost exclusively on comedy, much of it in the destructive and anarchic vein of his late brother. Projects in which Kevin appeared included the Adam_Sandler animated comedy Eight_Crazy_Nights (2002), the Cedric the Entertainer laugh-fest Johnson_Family_Vacation, and -- in a starring capacity -- a turn as a Michael_Moore-like anti-patriotic director who gets the Ebenezer Scrooge treatment in the David_Zucker gag-fest An_American_Carol (2008). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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