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| - Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Sheldon Roth, a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and Cora Roth, a painter. His grandparents emigrated from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland; Roth was raised Jewish. Besides English, he can speak French, Italian and Russian.
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| - Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Sheldon Roth, a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and Cora Roth, a painter. His grandparents emigrated from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland; Roth was raised Jewish. Besides English, he can speak French, Italian and Russian. Roth began shooting films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). He made over 100 short films with his brothers Adam and Gabriel before graduating from Newton South High School and attending film school (the Tisch School of the Arts) at New York University, from which he graduated in 1994. To fund his films while in college Roth worked as an online cybersex operator for Penthouse Magazine, posing as a woman, as well as a production assistant on feature films. By the age of 20, and while still a student at NYU, Roth ran the office of producer Frederick Zollo, eventually leaving after graduation to devote himself to writing full-time. Roth collected unemployment and found work on Howard Stern's "Private Parts" as Howard's night time assistant, staying at Silvercup Studios in Queens at night working on his scripts while Howard slept. Actress Camryn Manheim gave Roth one of his first jobs in Hollywood, putting him on as an extra on The Practice when he first moved to Los Angeles. Roth would stay in Manheim's dressing room working on his scripts while she filmed the show. The two had met and become friends while Roth was working for Fred Zollo in New York City. Roth also met Manheim's cousin Howie Nuchow (former EVP of Mandalay Sports Entertainment and also from the Boston, MA area) at Camryn's family passover seder—this led to Roth's first animation project "Chowdaheads" in the year that followed. Roth also co-wrote a project called "The Extra" with Manheim; Manheim would later sell the pitch to producer (and former CEO and Chairman of Fox Studios) Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium company.
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