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John Wesley Shipp

John Wesley Shipp

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John Wesley Shipp

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John Wesley Shipp is an American actor known for roles as Barry Allen in CBS The Flash and Mitch Leery on Dawson’s Creek. In 2016 and 2017, he returned to the stage in two productions of Twelve Angry Men, playing Juror No. 8 — a character who convinces 11 fellow jurors to look beyond racial and class bias and ultimately find a teenager not guilty of murdering his abusive father.

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