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Cody Fern, Actor

Hometown: Southern Cross, Australia

Age: 30

You Know Him As: David Madson in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX).

Breakthrough Roles: An undisclosed role in the final season of House of Cards (Netflix).

Role Models: “The divas of the daytime movies: Cher, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett. I saw these women on my television as very antithetical to the culture I was growing up in.”

On Storytelling: “I think people have reached a point of gender-stereotype exhaustion. People are waking up. They no longer want to switch off; they actually want to get to the heart of the problem.”

Mantra: “Do it your way, as long as you’re true to it and own every aspect.”

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