Editing Ted Raimi (section)

==Early life==
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Raimi was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/71432/|title=Jews Get Geek on at Comic-Con|last=Wills|first=Adam|date=July 22, 2009|publisher=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]|access-date=November 16, 2019}}</ref> in Detroit, Michigan. His parents are Celia (née Abrams), a lingerie store proprietor, and Leonard Raimi, a furniture store proprietor. Ted was raised in [[Conservative Judaism]], and his ancestors immigrated from Russia and Hungary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=8479|title=Spider-Mensch: The Jewish roots of director Sam Raimi and "Spider-Man."|last=Aushenker|first=Michael|date=April 26, 2002|publisher=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051113211125/http://www.jewishjournal.com:80/home/preview.php?id=8479|archive-date=November 13, 2005|access-date=May 2, 2014}}</ref> He attended [[Birmingham Groves High School|Wylie E. Groves High School]] in [[Beverly Hills, Michigan]], where he played blues harp and was a DJ and a member of the Groves Cinema Society. At seventeen, Raimi began his professional acting career doing industrial films in Detroit, for Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. He attended [[University of Michigan]], [[New York University]], then finally [[University of Detroit]]. Raimi's older brothers are director [[Sam Raimi]] and screenwriter [[Ivan Raimi]].