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Daren Kagasoff Profile |
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Birth Date: September 16, 1987
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Birth Place: Encino, California, USA
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Birth Name: Daren Kagasoff
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Biography |
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor. He currently stars as
Ricky Underwood on the ABC Family teen soap, The Secret Life
of the American Teenager.
Kagasoff was born in Encino, California to a designer and a
wholesale diamond dealer. He is the middle of three
children; he has an older brother, Justin, and a younger
sister, Natalie. Kagasoff is Jewish. Attending school at San
Francisco State University, he decided to become an actor.
He moved to Los Angeles, and landed the leading role in a
local theatre production of Suburbia, a play based on the
1996 film of the same name.
After taking acting lessons, Kagasoff began auditioning for
television and film roles. On one of his first auditions, he
was hand-picked by Brenda Hampton to star as Ricky Underwood
in the ABC Family television series, The Secret Life of the
American Teenager.
In the January 2010 spread of VMAN, he gave an interview
saying that the celebrities that he would like to be
compared with are Leonardo DiCaprio and Emile Hirsch. He
also said that despite liking television roles, he'd like to
appear in movies and plays. |
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Other Information |
Born and raised in Encino, California to a wholesale diamond
dealer and a designer.
He is the middle of three children.
After deciding to be an actor he headed to LA and got the
part of Tim, an alcoholic slacker, in the Whitmore-Lindley
Theatre Center production of suburbia.
During one of his first auditions he was hand-picked for the
role as "Ricky" in the ABC Family show The Secret Life of
the American Teenager by Brenda Hampton (Creator of 7th
heaven). |
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