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Wealthsimple makes powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money. Learn more I was actually hired to play a nurse on “Friends.” My hair was short and I wore these little glasses on my nose and I was kind of a tough nurse. And this is very unusual — they called me back to audition for this character of Joey’s agent. But let me give you some context. The first time I went on stage was at PS 114, in the fifth grade.