Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill


Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983), known professionally as Jonah Hill, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian.

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Early life

Hill was born in Mill Valley, California to a family that worked in the music business.[2] His father, Richard, was a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses.[2] Hill was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah.[3] He attended The Center for Early Education, Brentwood School and then Crossroads School, in Santa Monica. After graduating from high school, Hill left California to attend school at The New School, where he studied acting.
[edit]Career

While in college, Hill began writing his own plays and performing them in the Black and White bar in the East Village neighborhood of New York City.[4] His plays developed a small following and helped him realize that his true desire was to act in films. Hill was befriended by Dustin Hoffman's children, Rebecca and Jake, who introduced Hill to their father. The elder Hoffman asked him to audition for a role in I Heart Huckabees, in which Hill made his film debut.
Hill then made a brief appearance in Judd Apatow's directorial debut The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which eventually led to him starring in a larger supporting role in the Apatow-directed Knocked Up, a short role in Click playing Ben Newman at 17 years old, an uncredited role of Dewey Cox's grown-up brother Nate Cox in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and leading roles in the Apatow-produced Superbad and Get Him to the Greek.
On television, Hill played the "RA Guy" on the first season of the Oxygen Network sitcom Campus Ladies. He also guest-starred in an episode of Clark and Michael.
He was scheduled to host Saturday Night Live on November 17, 2007,[citation needed] which would have featured musical guest Kid Rock, but the episode was canceled due to the Writers Guild of America strike which lasted from November 5, 2007 to February 12, 2008. Instead, he hosted the March 15, 2008 show, which featured musical guest Mariah Carey.
He guest-starred in an episode of Reno 911 which aired on April 1, 2009.
Hill was in negotiations for a part in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as a sidekick to Shia LaBeouf's character.[6] He next starred in Judd Apatow's third directorial feature, Funny People, which also starred Adam Sandler, Eric Bana and Seth Rogen. He also was an associate producer of the 2009 Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary Brüno.


Hill in Barcelona in 2007
He guest starred on an episode of The Simpsons called "Pranks and Greens", portraying an immature man named Andy Hamilton who was hailed the best prankster in Springfield Elementary School history.[8]
In July of 2011, Jonah appeared at ESPN's ESPY awards sporting a much slimmer physique. He claimed to have lost 40 pounds but looked even thinner. Hill will be appearing in the film, 21 Jump Street in the near future.
[edit]Writing
Hill has wanted to be a writer since he was young, dreaming of someday joining the writing teams of The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and The Larry Sanders Show.[4] At one point, Hill was writing a screenplay with close friend and I Heart Huckabees co-star Jason Schwartzman.[4] At another, he was writing Pure Imagination, a comedy for Sony about a man who develops an imaginary friend after a traumatic experience. Filming was expected to begin in 2008, but it has been in development since then.[9]
[edit]Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2004 I Heart Huckabees Bret Film Debut
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin eBay store Customer
2006 Grandma's Boy Barry
Click Ben Newman – at age 17
Accepted Sherman Schrader Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Scream
10 Items or Less Packy
2007 Knocked Up Jonah
Evan Almighty Eugene Tenanbaum
Rocket Science Lionel
Superbad Seth Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance
Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Nate Cox's Ghost Uncredited
2008 Strange Wilderness Lynn Cooker
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Matthew
Just Add Water Eddie
Emerson Park Dylan Machado
2009 Reno 911! Daniel TV
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Brundon Uncredited
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Jeffrey Simmons
Funny People Leo
The Invention of Lying Frank
Brüno - Associate Producer Only
The Simpsons Andy Hamilton TV
Voice only
2010 How to Train Your Dragon Snotlout Voice only
Get Him to the Greek Aaron Green Nominated Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Liplock (shared with Russell Brand)
Nominated Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Fight/Action Sequence
(shared with Russell Brand and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs
Cyrus Cyrus
Megamind Hal Stewart/Titan Voice only
2011 Moneyball Peter Brand Post-Production
The Sitter TBA Post-Production
Also Executive Producer
Allen Gregory Allen Gregory TV Animated Series
Also Co-Creator, Executive Producer
2012 21 Jump Street Officer Doug Penhall Filming
Also Writer/Executive Producer[10]
2014 How To Train Your Dragon 2 Snotlout Pre-Production[11]

References from Wikipedia.com