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A British actor fresh out of drama school who got cast as an elf archer in a trilogy about rings, then played a swashbuckling blacksmith in a trilogy about pirates. For a window in time, he was on every Tiger Beat cover and the poster behind every teenage fan's bedroom door.
The 2000s' designated sensitive everyman: J.D. on Scrubs for nine years, writer-director-star of Garden State, and the guy whose iPod playlist a million college kids quietly adopted as a personality. For one decade, Zach Braff's daydreaming, monologuing, indie-scored inner life was the inner life of the culture.