45 Facts About Jack Antonoff

Jack Michael Antonoff was born on March 31,1984 and is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Jack Antonoff is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and drummer for the pop band Fun and the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Steel Train.

Jack Antonoff gained prominence as a music producer following his works with Swift, leading to three Album of the Year wins from her albums 1989, Folklore, and Midnights.

Jack Antonoff has curated film soundtracks as well, including One Chance, Fifty Shades Darker, Love, Simon, and Minions: The Rise of Gru ; singles from the first two soundtracks, "Sweeter Than Fiction" by Swift and "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by Swift and Zayn Malik, have garnered nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Jack Antonoff was born on March 31,1984, in Bergenfield, New Jersey.

Jack Antonoff is the second of three children of Shira and Rick Antonoff.

Jack Antonoff is the younger brother of fashion designer Rachel Antonoff.

Jack Antonoff's younger sister, Sarah, died of brain cancer at the age of 13 when Jack was a senior in high school.

Jack Antonoff grew up in New Milford, New Jersey, and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and attended elementary school at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County.

Jack Antonoff initially sang in the group until early 2000 when Eddie Wright took over on vocals.

Jack Antonoff was the lead singer, and they recruited drummer Matthias Gruber.

The group was popular on the jamband festival circuit and Jack Antonoff has said he has applied that grassroots mentality to his future projects.

In 2008, Nate Ruess asked Jack Antonoff to join him and Andrew Dost in a new band, which became Fun.

Jack Antonoff was already well acquainted with Ruess and Dost, as their former bands had all toured together.

Jack Antonoff announced a solo project called Bleachers in February 2014.

Jack Antonoff released Bleachers' second album Gone Now on June 2,2017.

In 2013, Jack Antonoff wrote and produced the song "Sweeter than Fiction" with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, for the film One Chance.

Jack Antonoff was a key contributor to Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation.

In 2019, Swift and Jack Antonoff wrote eight songs and produced eleven tracks together for Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, including the promotional single "The Archer", the title track, which served as the album's third single, and the number-one single "Cruel Summer".

In 2020, Swift and Jack Antonoff worked together on Swift's eighth studio album, Folklore.

Jack Antonoff worked with Swift on her re-recorded albums, co-producing most of the "From the Vault" tracks that were not included on the original albums.

Later in the year Swift and Jack Antonoff produced every vault track for 1989, and produced the tracks they originally produced on 1989.

Jack Antonoff co-produced all tracks from the standard edition of Swift's 2022 album Midnights and co-wrote eleven of the thirteen standard tracks, including the number-one single "Anti-Hero" and "Bejeweled", in which he appeared in the music video for the track.

Jack Antonoff co-wrote six songs and co-produced seven songs on Til Dawn Edition of Midnights and co-wrote and co-produced "You're Losing Me".

Jack Antonoff was one of the songwriters and producers on Swift's 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department, co-writing ten songs and co-producing sixteen songs across the album's standard and double album editions, including the number-one single "Fortnight".

In 2017, Jack Antonoff co-wrote and produced Lorde's Melodrama which was released in June.

Jack Antonoff then performed "Liability" alongside Lorde on Saturday Night Live.

In 2018, Jack Antonoff produced the soundtrack for the 20th Century Fox romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon.

On June 26,2019, Jack Antonoff previewed a new musical project with Sam Dew and Sounwave called Red Hearse.

Jack Antonoff co-wrote a majority of the songs on the album including the singles "Mariners Apartment Complex" and "Venice Bitch".

Jack Antonoff produced Del Rey's subsequent albums Chemtrails Over the Country Club in 2021 and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd in 2023, the latter including the duet "Margaret" which Del Rey wrote about Jack Antonoff's wife.

In 2015, Jack Antonoff started his own music festival called Shadow of the City, which raises funding for The Ally Coalition.

Jack Antonoff co-wrote "Brave" with Sara Bareilles after the two were introduced by Sara Quin of the band Tegan and Sara.

Jack Antonoff founded The Ally Coalition circa 2014 with his sister, Rachel Antonoff.

Also in 2015, Jack Antonoff portrayed the character Baby Goya in the comedy-drama film Hello, My Name Is Doris.

Jack Antonoff appeared in the 2021 documentary The Sparks Brothers, talking about his admiration for the band Sparks.

In 2022, Jack Antonoff produced eight tracks off Florence and the Machine's fifth studio album, Dance Fever.

Jack Antonoff co-produced the 1975's fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, and the soundtrack for the animated film, Minions: The Rise of Gru.

In 2024, Jack Antonoff produced the soundtrack for the Apple TV+ series The New Look.

Jack Antonoff co-wrote and produced five tracks on Sabrina Carpenter's sixth studio album Short n' Sweet, including her first number-one single "Please Please Please".

In late 2024, Jack Antonoff co-wrote and produced 11 out of 12 tracks from Lamar's sixth studio album GNX, including the number-one single "Squabble Up".

When Jack Antonoff first moved out of the family home near the end of 2012, he lived with his sister Rachel in New York City.

In 2023, Jack Antonoff married actress Margaret Qualley, after dating for a couple of years.

In June 2014, Jack Antonoff said in an interview that he was seeing both a therapist and a psychopharmacologist, while taking anti-anxiety medications.

Jack Antonoff has germophobia which was exacerbated by a bout of pneumonia that he suffered in 2011 while recording a studio album for his band Fun.