Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983)
is an American actor, producer and
screenwriter. Hill has had a successful career as an actor in comedy films, and has appeared in
Accepted,
Grandma's Boy,
Evan Almighty,
Superbad,
Strange Wilderness,
Forgetting Sarah Marshall and
Funny People.
Personal life
Hill was born into a Jewish family in
Mill Valley, California, and attended
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. He also attended the
University of Colorado at Boulder for one semester as a freshman after having left The New School. Hill's brother Jordan is the manager of the bands
Staind,
Collective Soul,
Maroon 5,
Big City Rock and others..
Career
Actor
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.
["One on One with... Jonah Hill", Hobo Trashcan, August 2006. Retrieved on June 29, 2007.] 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.
