Rebecca Metz

actor and member of Actors' Equity

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Actor and member of Actors' Equity, she's appeared on CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles and Showtime's Shameless, and was recently in The Behavior of Broadus by the Burglars of Hamm at the 99-seat Sacred Fools Theater

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