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Artist Mary Lynn Rajskub

In many ways, it's odd that Mary Lynn Rajskub got the part of Jack Bauer's smartass tech guru on 24. For one thing, Rajskub started out as a painter-turned-performance artist; she got into comedy via performance art, a background that unsurprisingly helped land her a gig on the beloved sketch showMr. Show for its first two seasons. After that, Rajskub had a fairly typical career until 24, full of small parts on a variety of TV shows and films, including a recent guest spot on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Despite such scene-stealing roles on television, Rajskub excels most in comedy, performing regularly in L.A. and touring steadily. 

Updated 06/22/2010

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