Max Casella

Although he often plays New Yorkers, he actually grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents are from New York and they taught him to speak with a New York accent. He moved to New York after high school and has lived there for most of his life.

I feel like every character that I play is a version of myself. I put the clothes on, the shirt and the bell-bottoms and the big belt, and I have my hair all out and the beard -- and I just become. I start playing make believe, and it's something that I've done since I was a little boy. It comes quite naturally.