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Josh Braaten was born on 25 June 1977 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Monsters (2022), Secrets of Sulphur Springs (2021) and The Company You Keep (2023).

Jason Gerhardt was born on 21 April 1974 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Wish Man (2019), NCIS (2003) and Beyond the Darkness (2018). He is married to Chalae. They have four children.

John Madden was born on 10 April 1936 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Replacements (2000), Little Giants (1994) and Arli$$ (1996). He was married to Virginia Jo Fields. He died on 28 December 2021 in Pleasanton, California, USA.

Barry Morrow is an Emmy and Academy Award winning writer/producer best known for his original story and screenplay for the 1988 Best Picture, "Rain Man (1988)". Morrow's autobiographical story, "Bill (1981)", starring Dennis Quaid and the late Mickey Rooney, was hailed by the New York Times as Rooney's most enduring role in his 90 year career.

George A. Hormel was the son of Jay Catherwood and Germaine (DuBois) Hormel, CEO's of the George A. Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota, the creators of Spam. He was the grandson of George A. Hormel, the founder of the Hormel meat packing plant in Austin. In his parent's Chateau-style home near Austin Geordie operated a hotel and restaurant known as Kingswood. He also operated with a friend a Tavern in Austin which featured the fireman's pole from the old Mankato Fire Station in Mankato, Minnesota.

Mark Ankeny was born on 9 October 1958 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Tucker (2000) and Ally McBeal (1997).

Tim O'Brien was born on 1 October 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He is a writer, known for Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried and St Nicholas and the Children (1989).

Craig Hutchinson was born on 23 June 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Noiseless Valley (1921), In the Clutches of Milk (1917) and Lines Busy (1921). He died in February 1976.

Paul Stephani was born on 8 September 1944 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He was married to Beverly Jean Lider. He died on 12 June 1998 in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, USA.

F.R. Furtney was born on 8 September 1912 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. F.R. was a director, known for This is Hormel (1965). F.R. died on 5 August 2002 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

James C. Hormel was born on 1 January 1933 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He was a producer, known for From Zero to I Love You (2019), Pursuit of Equality (2005) and Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021). He was married to Michael P. Nguyen-Hormel and Alice. He died on 13 August 2021 in San Francisco, California, USA.

Lee Janzen was born on 28 August 1964 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Tin Cup (1996), Sports Illustrated: 1993 the Year in Sports (1993) and Costas Now (2005).

F. Gordon Selby was born on 31 July 1910 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. F. Gordon is known for The Silent Service (1957). F. Gordon was married to Selby, Doris P.. F. Gordon died on 18 January 1985.

Robert Beaulieu was born on 25 February 1917 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Pyx (1973) and Annihilator (1986). He died on 12 March 1987 in San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.

Actress/Musician Charissa Wheeler is the daughter of a minister and a music teacher from a small town in Southeastern Minnesota. As early as age 4, she commonly appeared in local performances as a young pianist and singer, thanks to the tutelage of her mother.

With a BFA in Musical Theatre from Millikin University, Charissa got her start in Chicago, performing in original plays, improv shows, and sketch shows, in Chicago's numerous black box theatres. She also broke into the Chicago Indi film community as the unsuspecting secretary in the cult classic horror film, "The Promise Keeper".

In Los Angeles, Charissa made her television debut on the show "On The Lot" (FOX), hosted by Director D.J. Caruso. Then Inside Edition revealed Charissa as the bride who fell into a pool in a well-known YouTube clip that has become an internet sensation with over 1 Billion views worldwide. This clip is commonly mistaken as real wedding day footage, but is actually taken from a scene in the movie "Chloe and Keith's Wedding," in which Charissa played the title role.

Charissa also wrote and stars in "The New 20's," a sitcom about being 30's and single in the modern dating scene.

Charissa can often be seen live in stand-up, sketch, and improv performances in Los Angeles. Notably, she performed popular Python sketches with a twist in the recurring all-female show "Monty Pythong", with audiences including Python member Eric Idle. She is also a stand-up comedian at Los Angeles venues including the Hollywood Improv & the Comedy Store.

A skilled Pianist/Vocalist and Music Teacher of many years, Charissa opened a popular Burbank private music teaching school called The Music Junction, for 200 young local piano and voice students. As a Singer/Songwriter, Charissa's first album, Walk Alone, is scheduled for release in 2016.

Garrett Tiedemann is a radio producer, journalist, filmmaker and composer. He works for American Public Media covering the breadth and depth of composed music for YourClassical and Classical Minnesota Public Radio while also producing films, music videos, music and the podcast The White Whale via his production company CyNar Pictures. As a freelancer he has lent production and compositional approaches to the podcasts Memory Motel, Here Be Monsters, The Organist, ARRVLS, Life of the Law, and Top Score. Additionally he manages production and strategy for the oral history/storytelling project SisterStory.

Dick Enright was born on 20 May 1934 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He died on 23 November 2021 in Fallbrook, California, USA.

Phil Gleason is a mixed media sculptor whose work is focused in visual deceptions through use of lights, mirrors, magnets, and glass, in which he creates a multitude of illusions. He can be described as a visual illusionist, who is constantly striving to create new and exciting mirages. Gleason's childhood interest in magic and card tricks has become an impetus for much of his current work and continues to be a driving force of inspiration to push boundaries in order to test the human eye. His creative process involves researching and discovering new illusions to transform into installations or sculptures. Originally from Minnesota, Gleason attained a BFA from the University of Minnesota and then traveled to Florida where he earned an MFA from Florida State University.

His art mimics the optimal viewing angle or time frame for visual magic, working through forced perception to reveal seemingly endless, skewed, floating, or flattened 3D objects. Through mixed media sculpture and installation, Gleason works to suspend belief through visual illusions and other hidden optic deceptions. Through misconceptions such as balance, levitation, holograms, and other forced perspectives, Gleason shows signs of the technological advances man has made. He aims to challenge the viewers' sense of reality. Magnetic fields, gravity, lights, holograms, mirrors, electricity, and hidden mechanics are used to simulate these false impressions. The interactive effects make these artistic mysteries believable and authentic, and inspire viewers to look closer until the trick becomes lucid.

In addition to working on his own art, Gleason is the Studio Manager at the FSU Master Craftsman Studio and has taught sculpture classes at Florida State University since 2008. He is the recipient of several awards, including first place in the Art in Gadsden Regional Exhibition of Fine Art and received the Audience Choice Award at the Rhino Gallery in LA. Gleason remains very active in art education and community practices, such as, being a local Effects Coordinator and Creator, and prior board member for the Sculpture Garden in Tallahassee, FL. He has presented at the 24th Art in Gasden Winner's Talk and was a lecturer at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science.

Brux was born on 7 October 1974 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. Brux is an editor, known for Sexcetera (1998), Hip Hop & Rock (2003) and Playboy: The Ultimate Pamela Anderson (2002).

Burdette Haldorson was born on 12 January 1934 in Austin, Minnesota, USA. He died on 13 October 2023 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.