Paul Marcarelli
Actor, Film producer
1970 –
Who is Paul Marcarelli?
Paul Marcarelli is an American actor best known as the "Test Man" or "The Verizon Guy" character in commercials for Verizon Wireless. He appeared in all of his Verizon commercials wearing a gray Verizon jacket and his own horn-rimmed glasses until 2010. In February 2011, he revived his role as the Verizon test man in a commercial advertising the release of the iPhone 4 for the Verizon Wireless network. He is a native of North Haven, Connecticut.
He is a graduate from North Haven High School and received his B.A. in English from Fairfield University.
In 2002 he started appearing as the "Test Man" character in Verizon Wireless commercials, for which Entertainment Weekly named him one of most intriguing people of 2002. Marcarelli 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.
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- Born
- May 24, 1970
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Fairfield University
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on July 23, 2013
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