Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the malcontent Pete Campbell on AMC's "Mad Men, " will star this summer in a new Guthrie production of "Pride and Prejudice" as the brooding hero of Jane Austen's most famous novel.

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Pete Campbell from Mad Men.

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Though Mr. Weiner acknowledges some points of tangency between his parents and the characters of Pete and Trudy Campbell (portrayed by Vincent Kartheiser and Alison Brie), he maintains that he avoids using people or situations from his own life as models for the series.

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