My first exposure to the actor model was with Akka on Scala. After working with it for a little while, I thought "this is what OOP should be, perhaps I just hate broken implementations of OOP (i.e., Java, C++), rather than OOP itself." Heck, I like Ada95's implementation of OOP better than Java's.

I keep meaning to give Erlang a try, but just haven't had a reason yet. I do a lot of Clojure, these days :)