Englund was born in Glendale and his father wanted him to be a lawyer. He broke his father’s heart when at the age of 13 he went off to join a children’s theater program at California State University, Northridge where he played characters like Aladdin, Pinocchio and Peter Pan. He fell in love with the theater and was addicted to making audiences laugh. He took acting seriously and later relocated to Michigan to attend the Cranbrook Theatre School and Oakland University’s Meadow Brook Theatre, which was part of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
The Mercury News
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