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Shadyac was born in [[Falls Church, Virginia]] to Julie and Richard Shadyac, a lawyer.<ref name=FilmReference>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/69/Tom-Shadyac.html "Tom Shadyac Biography (1958?-)"]. Film Reference. Retrieved August 21, 2016.</ref><ref name="You">{{cite web|title=Director Tom Shadyac - Happiness, Faith, & Jim Carrey|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_al5KXOvDyE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/_al5KXOvDyE| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|work=TYT Interviews on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|access-date=April 10, 2014|format=Video upload|date=January 23, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> His mother was of [[Lebanese American|Lebanese]] descent, while his father was of half-[[Irish Americans|Irish]] and half-Lebanese ancestry.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-12/entertainment/ca-37254_1_jim-carrey/3 | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Scott | last=Collins | title=Eye to Eye, Lie to Lie | date=March 12, 1997}}</ref> His mother, who died of cancer in 1998, had become semi-quadriplegic and spent much of Shadyac's adult life in a wheelchair.<ref name="pepp"/>
Shadyac attended [[J. E. B. Stuart High School]] in Falls Church, where he had played basketball, participated in the [[Key Club]], and made the Junior National and National Honor Societies. In both 1975 and 1976, Shadyac was included in the now-defunct "Who's Who Among High School Students"
As a pre-law student at the [[University of Virginia]], Shadyac produced a poster entitled "Are You a Preppie?" Borrowing from the style of ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' magazine, and based on the large number of preppies in [[Charlottesville]] and nearby [[Richmond, Virginia]], the poster preceded the more well-known ''[[The Official Preppy Handbook]]''. The poster went into multiple printings and served as a fundraiser for his fraternity, [[Sigma Chi]].<ref name="uva">{{cite web| title = 1979: Preppie Profiler| publisher = Virginia Magazine, Fall 2009| url = http://uvamagazine.org/articles/1980_preppie_profiler}}</ref>
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