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listening. Anthony Jensen is a father, actor, producer, and survivor from Idaho by way of Oregon. He moved to Los Angeles in the late

1980s to pursue a career in entertainment, and although the years following would be filled with

great success, and 1991 shooting would forever impact the way he navigated life afterwards.

Tony was the manager of a movie theater and in the auditorium when a film's opening night turned violent.

The broken psychomedia team is so grateful that Tony was willing to share about his experiences that evening, as well as

all that came next in his career and within his healing process.

My name is Anthony Jensen. I am an actor and a producer. So I have my creative side and I have my logistical side.

How my loved ones would describe me, they would probably say he's dynamic, funny, grounded.

He's an amazing father. I was born in Portland, Oregon. My folks, when I was really young, divorced, and I ended up going to Idaho.

I was with my mother and my brothers were with my father.

Emmett, Idaho was this small mill town.

There was a river that ran through it, and there were canals to swim in, and farm country.

And I was able to run around and do whatever canals to swim in and farm country. And I was able to

run around and do whatever I wanted to do in a really carefree way. In the wintertime,

the mill hosted a Christmas movie every year. And they would give all the kids a bag of stuff

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