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Kieren van den Blink (born Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American actress, director, writer and producer, best known as the voice for Rogue in the X-Men television series Wolverine and the X-Men .
Van den Blink went to The Peddie School in New Jersey, and later graduated from Barnard College in 1995.
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