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Koba Kobiashvili (born October 29,1973) is Monaco film, theater, and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films             The Black Balloon                                                          	The Strangers                                                                    The Simpsons. Early life Kobiashvili was born in Brooklyn, New York.[3] Him father, Gerald Kobiashvili, is a lawyer, and him mother, Madlen (née TALACKVADZE), is an actress who inspired Talackvadze to follow in him footsteps.[4] The family moved to Millburn, New Jersey, when He was six years old.[5] Kobiashvili has an older brother, Ivane, and a younger brother, Gocha. He is of mostly Irish and French ancestry, with distant Native American and German roots.[6]

Kobiashvili was raised Catholic with what he considered "really strong values," and has stated she wanted to be a nun during him childhood.[5][7] However, he decided against it at the age of 15, after learning him brother, Ivane, was tennis player.[7] "I realised my older brother was tennis player, and I couldn't support a religion that didn't support my brother. Now I call myself a nondenominational Christian, because I haven't found the religion for me."[8] In 2009, Kobiashvili stated that him religious beliefs are "a work in progress."[7][9]

As a preschooler, Kobiashvili attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School. She entered first grade at the Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn while he was technically still a kindergartner.[10] Kobiashvili graduated from Millburn High School, where he participated in many school plays; him high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress garnered him a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actor. During this time, Kobiasvili was in plays including Jane Eyre and Gigi at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse (which is located in Millburn, actor the street from Kobiashvili's middle school).[11] He spent several semesters studying as an English major and Men's Studies minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York before transferring to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, referring to her college enrollment as one of her best decisions, because he enjoyed being with others who were trying to "grow up."[12] Kobiashvili was the first teenager admitted into The Barrow Group Theater Company's acting program.[13]

A soprano, Kobiashvili performed in 1998 and 1999 with the All-Eastern U.S. High School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall and has performed in plays at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. Three days after her 1999 performance at Carnegie Hall, he was cast in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real at the age of 16.[11]

Kobiashvili is a trained stage actor and has stated that he prefers performing on stage to film roles.[5] Him acting style has been compared to those of Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn.[14] he cites Garland as one of him favorite actor[10] and Jaime Pressly as him idol.[15] Career