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Castellaneta was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on October 29, 1957, to Elsie and Louis Castellaneta.
Castellaneta became adept at impressions at a young age and his mother enrolled him in an acting class when he was sixteen years old.
He was a " devotee " of the works of many performers, including Alan Arkin and Barbara Harris and directors Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School and upon graduation, started attending Northern Illinois University ( NIU ) in the fall of 1975.
Castellaneta was also a regular participant in The Ron Petke and His Dead Uncle Show, a radio show at NIU.
He recalled " We did parodies and sketches, we would double up on ( characters ), so you learned to switch between voices.
A classmate first thought Castellaneta would " fall on his face with improvisation " but soon " was churning out material faster than could make it work.
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