• Name: Kip Pardue
  
• Birth Name: Kevin Ian Pardue
  
• Height: 6' 2"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: September 23, 1976
  
• Birth Place: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Dunwoody High School in Atlanta, Georgia (graduated in 1994)
  
•   : Yale University (majored in Economics; graduated in 1998)
  

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• On acting: "It's amazing to think that you affect other people's lives on such a grand scale. I'm so thankful for that, and I'm so lucky."
• "It's hard to stop and think that people are interested in me."
• "It was easier for me to be out on the football field than it was to go home."
• On his success: "I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling but also a depressing one. No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own."
• On becoming an actor: "I feel really guilty sometimes. Everyone in L.A. wants to be an actor, and I was kind of the opposite. So, I feel like I've taken somebody's slot, maybe."
• On being a model: "People are really quick to bash it. I mean, you do kind of feel like a piece of meat, but at the same time, you're a really well paid piece of meat."
• On his name: Pardue's father wanted to name his son Kevin, while his mother rooted for Kip. They settled on Kevin [Ian Pardue] on the birth certificate, and everyone has always called me Kip [his initials]. I don’t know who won."
• On seeing his mother's reaction when she met Sylvester Stallone on the set: "It’s so funny to watch people that you care about get so excited about what I do and I think I’m kind of in this business to make them happy."
• On growing up in a single-parent household: "No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own."

• Young Hollywood Award: New Stylemaker - Male (2002)

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