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Jason Michael Lee was born on April 25, 1970. He was born and raised Southern California; Jason Lee started Skateboarding at the age of 13. By the age of 18 he was on a professional skateboarding circuit. There he popularized a move called the "360 flip". In the early 1990's, Jason took some of these tricks to the camera, appearing in several Music Videos - including one for the Sonic Youth song "100%". Jason got his first taste of acting in 1991, when he turned up alongside Spike Jonze as a teenage drug customer in Allison Anders's Mi Vida loca.

Jason Lee's movie career began when he got a lead role in Kevin Smith's Mallrats. While the film was almost universally planned, Jason received high marks from critics and audiences for his turn as "cynical sidekick", Brodie Bruce. Kevin Smith was please with Brodie, so he wrote a part for Jason in his next film, Chasing Amy. Jason won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance.

Once appearing in several independent and made-for-Television movies, Jason switched to acting in Kissing a Fool. Starring opposite David Schwimmer and Mili Avital, he played a writer who works through his last breakup by writing a book. In 1999, Jason landed two significant acting gigs: one as the demon "Azrael" in Kevin Smith's Dogma, and another as the eccentric young billionaire "Slop Skipperton" in Mumford. Then he went to work on Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, in which he played a member of the fictional '70's band "Stillwater".

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