Jerry Seinfeld
(1954 - )
Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, writer and observational comedian from Massapequa, New York, a Long Island, New York town. Seinfeld attended the Birch Lane Elementary School and Massapequa High School.
Straight from graduation at Queens College, Seinfeld tried out at an open-mic night at New York's Catch A Rising Star in 1976. Soon after, he was appearing in a Rodney Dangerfield HBO special.
Seinfeld had a small recurring role as "Frankie" on the Benson sitcom in 1979, but was abruptly fired from the show.
A few years later, in May of 1981, Seinfeld made a highly successful appearance on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Seinfeld then became a regular on similar shows, including Late Night with David Letterman and the Merv Griffin Show.
For a time in his life Seinfeld (who was raised as a Jew) was a Scientologist and he still speaks highly of his time as a Scientologist. In an interview he did for Playboy Magazine in October 1993 he said, "I learned a lot and I had a good experience with it."
Seinfeld
Seinfeld created The Seinfeld Chronicles with Larry David in 1989 for NBC. The show was later renamed Seinfeld and, by its fourth season, became one of the most popular and successful sitcoms on American television. The show left the air in 1998. As of 2005, the show was still receiving heavy airplay in syndication. The show also starred Saturday Night Live veteran Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as well as Michael Richards and Jason Alexander. On the show, Seinfeld played a caricature of himself.
Post-Seinfeld
In 1998, Seinfeld went on tour and recorded a comedy special entitled "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". An album of the same name was also released that year, and it featured samples of his stand-up performance.
After his sitcom went off the air, Seinfeld returned to stand-up comedy. The process of developing new material was chronicled in a 2002 documentary, Comedian, directed by Christian Charles. Jerry Seinfeld has written a few books, mostly archives of past routines.
Seinfeld also appeared in two 'webisodes' promoting American Express Credit Cards in which he appeared together with an animated rendering of Superman, voiced by Patrick Warburton (who had portrayed David Puddy on Seinfeld). The webisodes were aired in 2004 and directed by famous director Barry Levinson.
Family
He was born to a Jewish family of a Syrian mother and a Hungarian father.
His most famous pre-marriage dalliance was with Shoshanna Lonstein, who was still in secondary school when they first met. He began dating Jessica Sklar after they met at the Reebok Sports Club in 1998, even though she had just married Eric Nederlander, a scion of the Broadway theater-owning family. At one point, Nederlander planned to sue Seinfeld for "alienation of affection" for contributing to the demise of his marriage. Seinfeld and Sklar married on December 25, 1999. They have three children: Sascha, Julian Cal (whose birth was announced on Live! with Regis and Kelly), and Sheperd Kellen, born August 22, 2005.
Courtesy of: