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He doesn't warrant a Jim Carrey-salary quite yet, but within five years of leaving Oberlin, actor Daniel London made a big-budget movie debut portraying the horn-rimmed-glassed medical student, Truman Schiff, the close friend of Robin Williams' character, Patch Adams. And, at age 26, London can say with certainty that he's shared the stage with his favorite actor. With Oscar winner Holly Hunter, he appeared in the play Impossible Marriage, which ran in New York City's Roundabout Theater shortly after the wrap of Patch Adams.

"It was amazing to work with her," London says. "It was a new play and we were figuring out all the nuances and relationships--that made it incredibly personal and intimate." The two have remained in close touch; London occasionally calls Hunter for advice about potential projects.

Modest and driven, London is admittedly self-deprecating, but has always been aware of his destiny for acting. He moved from his high school theater clique to the Oberlin one, where he performed in plays ranging from Waiting for Godot to Bent. "I didn't articulate to myself until my senior year that I was going to make it as an actor," he says. After months of religiously attending open calls and acting seminars, London landed his first paying gig in a Showtime movie called The Garden of Redemption. He's since gone head-to-head with Kiefer Sutherland and Skeet Ulrich in A Soldier's Sweetheart; Israel Horowitz and Carol Kane in the Bernard Malamud short film, The First Seven Years; and Olivia Williams, Balthazar Getty, and Stacey Edwards in Four Dogs Playing Poker.