Editing Jeff Whitty (section)

==Early life and education==
Whitty was born September 30, 1971, in [[Coos Bay, Oregon]], where he was raised as the fifth of six children. After graduating from the [[University of Oregon]] in 1993, he moved to [[New York City]] and received a master's degree from [[New York University]]'s [[Tisch School of the Arts#Graduate Acting Program|Graduate Acting Program]] in 1997.<ref>{{cite web | title=NYU Graduate Acting Alumni | url=http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html | year=2011 | access-date=2011-12-08 | archive-date=2012-07-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705121632/http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> After two decades in New York he moved to Los Angeles in 2013.