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Star of `Tarzan's' first swing at acting in a fitting role.

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From: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20030930
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Byline: Tom Jicha

Travis Fimmel says he was Tarzan long before the WB discovered him and tapped him as the latest to play Edgar Rice Burroughs' fabled character.

"As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan," the native of Australia says, possibly parroting a line fed to him by a publicist. Fimmel says it was because "I never wore shoes and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub."

His childhood was spent around animals, although not exotic jungle species. "I grew up on a farm," he said. "We had 11 dogs and like 1,500 cattle."

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