Kingsley, Jason
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Birthname | Jason A. Kingsley | ||||
born on | 27 June 1974 at 23:04 (= 11:04 PM ) | ||||
Place | New York, New York, 40n43, 74w00 | ||||
Timezone | EDT h4w (is daylight saving time) | ||||
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Biography
American actor born with Down syndrome who made his television debut in 1975 on Sesame Street at 15 months old and appeared in 55 episodes. He also guest-starred in a 1984 episode of The Fall Guy, and episodes of All My Children and Touched by an Angel.
Kingsley was born to Emily and Charles Kingsley. His mother is a writer for Sesame Street and his father was a painting contractor. Kingsley graduated from Lakeland High School in 1994, and passed all six special education Regents Competency Tests. In June 1997, he graduated from Maplebrook School, a post-secondary school for students with learning disabilities.
In 1994, Harcourt Brace published Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome, a book Kingsley co-wrote with friend Mitchell Levitz about their experiences with Down syndrome.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Entertainment: Sesame Street (born 10 November 1969). Notes: Regular, 1975, 55 episodes
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1994 (Autobiography, "Count Us In")
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes him in the book, Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome, by Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994), page 21:
"I was born on June 27, 1974, 11:04 P.M. in New York Hospital."
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases (Down syndrome)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV series/ Soap star
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("Count Us In")
- 1974 births
- Birthday 27 June
- Birthplace New York, NY (US)
- Sun 6 Cancer
- Moon 22 Libra
- Asc 23 Aquarius
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV series/ Soap star
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer