DJ Qualls

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DJ Qualls is an American actor, producer, and fashion model

Jun 10, 1978

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: June 10, 1978
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Film & Theater Personalities, Actors
  • City/State: Tennessee
  • Known as: Donald Joseph Qualls
  • Universities:
    • Belmont University
    • University of London
  • Birth Place: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

DJ Qualls born at

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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Birth Place

DJ Qualls is not married as yet. He says he is a nerd, and would marry someone who is as interested in comic books and science fiction as he is. He prefers that his future wife or girlfriend comes from the same professional background as his, as that would help them to understand each other better.

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Personal Life

He says that he would get married after accomplishing everything he wishes to accomplish in his life, as marriage might hinder his professional goals.

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Personal Life

In 2011, he bought his first house in California, after living in Los Angeles for years in a modest one-bedroom apartment.

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Personal Life

DJ Qualls was born on June 10, 1978 in Nashville, Tennessee, to teenage parents Debbie and Donnie Qualls. “I was born to the wrong parents in the wrong place. It always felt so foreign to me,” DJ said in an interview. “I was so different from other kids; I was just weird.” He has four siblings. He was raised in Manchester, Tennessee, and attended a school nearby.

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Childhood & Early Life

When he was 14, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of lymphatic system, which is a part of the immune system. After two years of radiation and chemotherapy, his cancer went into remission. However, the severe treatment left an impact on his metabolism and stopped his development, which explains his slender frame.

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Childhood & Early Life

He attended Coffee County Central High School where he was an active member in the Red Raider Band. After graduating from Coffee County, he attended King's College in London, where he studied English language and literature.

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Childhood & Early Life

He then went to the University of London to study law as he knew that a career in law would help him make a lot of money. But he was not enthusiastic about becoming a lawyer and was more interested in acting. Thus he returned to Tennessee and attended Belmont University in Nashville. At the same time, he also began acting in a local theater company.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1994, when DJ Qualls began looking for work in the film industry, he started as an extra in the HBO film ‘Against the Wall’. In 1997, he landed the small role of Jason in the mini-series ‘Mama Flora's Family,’ adapted from a historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. During that time, he participated in community theatre as well.

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Career

He also worked as a model for Prada, an Italian luxury fashion house, and for photographers like David LaChapelle and Steve Klein. During the early phase of his career DJ appeared in a cameo in Britney Spears' music video ‘Boys,’ and in the video ‘I'm Just a Kid’ by Simple Plan.

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Career

In 2000, after auditioning for a one-liner in ‘Road Trip’, an American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Scot Armstrong and Phillips, DJ was asked to come from the Atlanta office to meet producer Ivan Reitman in California. He debuted in the film as Kyle Edwards, a shy virgin.

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Career

With a strong performance in his first feature film ‘Road Trip’, Qualls started finding work in good projects like ‘Cherry Falls’, a 2000 American film directed by Geoffrey Wright, wherein he played Wally, another virgin. In 2001, he played Neil Lawrence in ‘Chasing Holden’.

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Career

He played Junior in the film ‘Lone Star State of Mind’; high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison in the film ‘The New Guy’, a teen comedy film directed by Ed Decter; and Rat in ‘The Core’ a 2003 science fiction disaster film.

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In 2002, DJ Qualls played Archie in the film ‘Comic Book Villains’, an American black comedy film written and directed by James Robinson. He was a co-producer of the film as well. In the same year, he played Andrew in the film ‘Big Trouble’, a comedy film based on the novel ‘Big Trouble’ by Dave Barry.

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Major Work