Kingsley, Jason

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Name
Kingsley, Jason Gender: M
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)
Data source
From memory
Rodden Rating A
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.svg s_cancol.18.svg 06°04' s_mo.18.svg s_libcol.18.svg 22°34 Asc.s_aqucol.18.svg 23°22'



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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

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")