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Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan on September 23, 1959) is a television, cinema and musical theatre actor, best known for his role as George Costanza on the hit television series Seinfeld.
Alexander began his acting career on the New York stage and is an accomplished singer and dancer. On Broadway, he appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Accomplice, and Jerome Robbins' Broadway, for which he was awarded the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a successful run, opposite Martin Short, in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks' The Producers .
Alexander also appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He played Jacob Marley to Grammer's Ebenezer Scrooge. In the fall of 2004, he appeared in the short-lived CBS sitcom Listen Up, costarring Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Alexander was recently named the Artistic Director of Reprise Broadway's Best in Los Angeles, CA, where he previously directed Sunday in the Park with George. He will be directing the upcoming revival of Damn Yankees at Reprise and promises it will be Damn Yankees "like you've never seen in before."
Alexander is best known as a cast member of the award-winning television sitcom Seinfeld, in which he played George Costanza, Jerry Seinfeld's best friend. Concurrently with his Seinfeld duties, Alexander provided the voice of the lead character in the cult animated series Duckman, which lasted from 1994-1997. Alexander also voiced Catbert, the evil director of human resources, in the short-lived Dilbert animated series based on the popular comic strip. He appeared in the second season of Curb Your Enthusiasm playing himself.
Jason Alexander also had a part in Dinosaurs on ABC as a character named Al (Sexual) Harass. His character used to talk about sexual harassment in the work place.
Alexander appears on the Family Guy: Live in Vegas CD singing a verse in the song "All Cartoons are Fuckin' Dicks".
Alexander appeared on Star Trek: Voyager on the episode "Think Tank" playing a genius alien named Kurros who was trying to get Seven of Nine on his ship.
He appeared in the first episode of the short-lived 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone, playing Death.
On the June 26, 2006 episode of the Jimmy Kimmel Live talk show, Alexander demonstrated several self-defense techniques. He was also the Host of the 230th July 4, 2006 of the PBS July 4 "A Capitol Fourth" Celebrations in Washington, D.C. in which he sang, danced, and played tuned drums.
Alexander has appeared twice on Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown and won the final table in the 8th season. Alexander played for United Way of the greater New Orleans area and won $500,000 for the charity.
On August 6, 2006, Alexander signed on to feature as a regular cast member in the second season of Everybody Hates Chris.
Alexander was the host of the Comedy Central roast of actor William Shatner on August 13, 2006, which first aired on August 20, 2006.
Alexander is also featured in country music star Brad Paisley's music videos "Celebrity" and "Online," the latter of which he directed and won the 2007 Country Music Association's Video of the Year Award.
In January 1995, Alexander did a commercial for Rold Gold pretzels to be broadcast during the Super Bowl. The commercial depicts Jason with Frasier dog "Eddie" jumping out of an airplane with a parachute over the stadium. After the commercial, we're brought back to a supposedly "live feed" of the playing field hearing startled sports commentators as we see Jason and the dog landing in the field to applause from the crowd.
He performed a mentalism and magic act at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California on April 24-30 2006. He has been awarded the Parlor Magician of the year award at the Castle.
Alexander is the national spokesman for the Scleroderma Foundation, a leading organization dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and assisting those who are afflicted.
An avid poker player Jason is also one of the "famous faces" . due to being a regular player on the online poker website Hollywood Poker which is run in conjunction with Ongame Network. Alexander also played in the 2007 World Series of Poker main event, but was eliminated on the second day.
The receding hairline is his own. According to an FX trivia question during a viewing of Shallow Hal, Alexander started losing his hair at the age of 16. He has been married to Daena E. Title since May 31, 1982. They have two children, Gabriel (b. May 1992) and Noah (b. February 1996).
He is also the uncle and godfather of the Irish born actor, Stephen Mullan, who appeared in movie's such as 'She's All That', and 'Tigerland'. His brother-in-law is actor/writer/director Jonathan Penner (husband to Daene Title's sister Stacy) who appeared on Survivor: Cook Islands. |
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