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- Birth nameJeremy Lance Gosnell
- Born Jeremy Lance Gosnell in Conway, Arkansas on September 6, 1978, to Linda Kay Gosnell (née Stacks) customer service representative and James Leo Gosnell a USPS Letter Carrier, but it would be during the time he was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother Wynell Stacks (née Dollar), a personal Nanny for former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller that Lance would develop an interest in acting by watching his uncle David Stacks known as Charles Davis perform the character Captain Dave on the "Alphabet Set" and later watching Michael J. Fox portray Alex P. Keaton on "Family Ties" that would lead Lance to imagine that one day he would be discovered by Hollywood.
It would be later during his high school years that he would begin attending the University of Central Arkansas' youth theater where he was introduced to the basics of acting while also studying study the comedians on Saturday Night Live from his living room and would often entertain anyone willing to listen to his versions of the voice's of Yogi the Bear, Dana Carvey's President George Bush and Ross Perot, the late Phil Hartman's President Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as well as learning the art of physical comedy from watching Chevy Chase.
In 1998, while enrolled at Arkansas State University would study theater and eventually stage manage William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
After enrolling at the University of Central Arkansas in 2006, an HBO film crew came to Little Rock, Arkansas to film part the documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School for Law and Lance made it into a background shot of the film.
It would not be until 2018 that Lance would make has film debut as an extra in the found footage film 1st Summoning followed by his first speaking role as Bob Roberts in the film Indestructible: Reckoning in 2019.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lance J. Gosnell
- President Thomas Jefferson is the nephew to the wife of Lance's paternal 7th Great Grandfather Thomas Turpin who is recorded as being married to Mary Jefferson the sister of Capt. Thomas Jefferson and aunt of Pres. Thomas Jefferson.
- Lance is distantly related to horror icon Anthony Perkins on his paternal side making Anthony Perkins Lance's 10th cousin 4 times removed.
- Raja Gosnell the director of the Scooby-Doo and the Smurfs films and others is Lance's 8th Cousin Once times removed. This makes William Gosnell (1660-1709) an 8th Great Grandfather to both of them.
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