Paul Marcarelli

Paul Marcarelli (born May 1970) is an American actor best known as the "Test Man" character in commercials ("Can you hear me now?") for Verizon Wireless. He appears in all Verizon commercials wearing a gray Verizon jacket and his own horn-rimmed glasses. He hails from Connecticut.

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occupation=Film, voice actor, screenwriter
birthplace=North Haven, Connecticut [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1031115/]

Contrary to rumors, Marcarelli was not discovered by a Verizon executive while waiting tables. By the time he was cast as the Verizon Wireless "Test Man" character, for which "Entertainment Weekly" named him one of most intriguing people of 2002,Cite web |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,402380,00.html |title=Scout Awards 2002 |accessdate=2008-01-13 |year=2003 |work=Entertainment Weekly] he had already appeared in numerous commercials for companies including Old Navy, Merrill Lynch, Dasani, and Heineken. He also performed in industrial and promotional films, and as a voiceover artist, for Comedy Central, United Airlines and Aetna Insurance, among others.

A founding member of New York's Mobius Group Productions, Marcarelli produced and performed in works by Eric Bogosian, Warren Leight, and Richard Nelson. Mobius' production of "The Adding Machine", in which he played the lead role, garnered the Award for Excellence in Overall Production from The New York International Fringe Festival in 2001; and his 2005 production, "Bridezilla Strikes Back!" starring Cynthia Silver, which "The New York Times" called "irresistible"citequote, won the Fringe's Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Solo Show.

As a screenwriter, his film, currently titled "Sweet Flame", is slated for production in Spring 2007. [cite news |title="Can You Hear Me Now?" a Hit |author=Howard, Theresa |publisher="USA Today" |url=http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2004-02-22-track-verizon_x.htm |date=2004-02-22 |accessdate=2006-10-11] He is a graduate from North Haven High School.

He has a twin brother Matthew, who is a highly-decorated Lieutenant in the New Haven Fire Department.

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