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Kyle Bornheimer: the quarterback who went to the Groundlings

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1975 –

The tie, exactly: Kyle Edward Bornheimer was born September 10, 1975, in Mishawaka, and raised here — a full-strength tie. He went to St. Monica Grade School, graduating in 1990, and to Marian High School, class of 1994, where he was the starting quarterback — a Mishawaka school course on both sides of the city's parish line.

The course: Bornheimer enrolled at Purdue University; one profile claims a Purdue degree while also reporting that he moved to Los Angeles at nineteen, and the two cannot both stand — this section prints the enrollment and the move, and names the degree as not established. In Los Angeles he took up acting at about twenty-four, trained in improvisation with the Groundlings and the Upright Citizens Brigade, and helped found the Curtainbox Theatre Company. His break was the lead — Sam Briggs, the groom in the collapsing engagement — in CBS's Worst Week (2008–09). The film and television course since runs through She's Out of My League (2010), a guest turn on The Office, Teddy Wells on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Casual, Playing House, Doug on Avenue 5, and High School (2022). He is a living person, carried here from the public record in his public roles only; his own summary of the tie, given in a 2023 podcast interview, is on the record and needs no addition: "I really obviously cherish my upbringing there."

Sources:

  1. Wikipedia, "Kyle Bornheimer," read November 2026 (birth at Mishawaka; school course; career record)
  2. Marian High School and St. Monica alumni records as carried in the standard profiles (class years; quarterback)
  3. 2023 podcast interview (the Mishawaka remark, in his own words)

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Source: Kyle Bornheimer: the quarterback who went to the Groundlings, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/people/kyle-bornheimer-the-quarterback-who-went-to-the-groundlings/