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Justin Jacob Long, who has owned a home in Fairfield, turns 36 on Monday. The actor was born June 2, 1978, in Fairfield.
Long worked at Sacred Heart University as an acting instructor/counselor for a children's theater group.
Long's film credits include Idiocracy, Waiting..., Jeepers Creepers, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, The Break-Up, Crossroads, Galaxy Quest, Dreamland, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Live Free or Die Hard. He was also a regular on the NBC TV series Ed (2000–2004), playing socially awkward Warren Cheswick. He voiced the character of Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, and played the main character in the 2006 comedy film Accepted.
Long made a guest appearance in the 2006 documentary, Wild West Comedy Show. In 2007, he co-starred with Bruce Willis as a "white-hat hacker" in Live Free or Die Hard and had a role in the film, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang.
Long is known for his depiction of a Mac in Apple's “Get a Mac” advertising campaign.
In 2009, he starred in He's Just Not That into You and provided the voice of Humphrey in Alpha and Omega(2010).
Long read the audiobook version of Judy Blume's Then Again, Maybe I Won't and Stephen King's Everything's Eventual.
From July 7–18, 2010, he appeared in a production of Samuel J. and K. at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and co-hosted WWE Raw with Going the Distance co-stars Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, 2010.
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