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Woods was born on April 18, 1947, in Vernal, Utah,[6] and had a brother ten years younger.[7] His father, Gail Peyton Woods, was a United States Army intelligence officer who died in 1960[8] after routine surgery. His mother, Martha A. (née Smith), ran a pre-school after her husband's death[9] and later married Thomas E. Dixon.[10] Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School, from which he graduated in 1965. He is of part Irish descent and was raised Catholic, briefly serving as an altar boy.[11][12]
Woods was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He stated on Inside the Actors Studio that he originally intended to become an eye surgeon. He pledged the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and was a member of the student theatre group Dramashop, acting in and directing a number of plays. He dropped out of MIT in 1969, one semester before graduating, to pursue an acting career.[13]
Woods has said that he owes his acting career to Tim Affleck, father of actors Ben and Casey Affleck, who was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston, which Woods attended as a student.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Woods
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