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Actors' Fund of America

Jet, June 21, 2004

> Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tony Award-winning actor, was elected the 12th president of the Actors' Fund of America. Mitchell, a stage and screen actor who won the Best Actor Tony in 2000 for the musical Kiss Me, Kate, has been a trustee of the Actors' Fund since 1998. Founded in 1882, the New York-based organization assists entertainment professionals with health care, affordable housing and career counseling.

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