Dana Carvey
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Carvey at the 41st Annual Emmy Awards
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| Birth name | Dana Thomas Carvey |
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June 2, 1955 Missoula, Montana, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1978–present |
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| Spouse | Paula Zwagerman (m. 1983) |
| Children | 2 |
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, who made his acting debut in Tough Guys (1986), and is most widely known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth Algar in the Wayne's World films.
He is well known for his impersonations of George H. W. Bush and Ross Perot on Saturday Night Live. He is also known for playing The Church Lady and Hans from Hans and Franz on SNL; both are original SNL characters.
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the son of Billie Dahl, a schoolteacher, and Bud Carvey, a high school business teacher. Carvey is the brother of Brad Carvey, the engineer/designer of the Video Toaster. The character Garth Algar is loosely based on Brad. Carvey has English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish ancestry, and was raised Lutheran. When he was three years old, his family moved to San Carlos, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his first drum kit at an early age. He attended Tierra Linda Junior High in San Carlos, Carlmont High School in Belmont, California (where he was a member of the Central Coast Section champion cross country team),College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California, and received his bachelor's degree in broadcast communications from San Francisco State University.
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