Portal:Houston/Music, Arts & Culture/November 2006

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Dennis Quaid is an American actor born in Houston, Texas. He studied drama at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and later in college. He dropped out of the University of Houston before graduating and moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career. Aside from acting, Quaid is also a musician, and plays with his band the Sharks.

Quaid works with the charity "International Hospital for Children in New Orleans." He makes trips to Central America to help build medical clinics and transport sick children back to the United States for treatment they cannot get locally.