1. Jason Alexander gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Television.
Jason Alexander remained active on Broadway acting in the musicals The Rink in 1984 and the Neil Simon play Broadway Bound in 1986.
Jason Alexander then starred in Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Jason Alexander has directed several plays such as the original 2023 Broadway production of The Cottage.
Jason Alexander voiced the gargoyle Hugo in the Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the titular role in Duckman.
Jason Alexander grew up in Maplewood and Livingston, New Jersey, and is a 1977 graduate of Livingston High School.
Jason Alexander began his acting career on the New York stage and is an accomplished singer and dancer.
Jason Alexander made his film debut in 1981 in the summer camp slasher film The Burning.
Jason Alexander is best known as one of the key cast members of the award-winning television sitcom Seinfeld, where he played the bumbling George Costanza.
Jason Alexander was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards for the role, but did not win any, mainly due to his co-star Michael Richards winning for his role as Cosmo Kramer.
Jason Alexander did win the 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series.
Jason Alexander voiced the lead character in the animated series Duckman and voiced Catbert, the evil director of human resources, in the short-lived animated series Dilbert from 1999 to 2000, based on the then-popular comic strip.
Jason Alexander appeared in the 1995 TV version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie, as Conrad Birdie's agent, Albert Peterson.
Jason Alexander guest-starred in episode 8 of the 1996 variety show Muppets Tonight.
Jason Alexander voiced the gargoyle Hugo in Disney's 1996 animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame and its direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.
Jason Alexander has dabbled in directing, starting with 1996's For Better or Worse and 1999's Just Looking.
In 1999, Jason Alexander presided over the New York Friars Club Roast event honoring Jerry Stiller, who played his father on Seinfeld; it featured appearances by Kevin James and Patton Oswalt, both Stiller's costars on The King of Queens.
Jason Alexander appeared in the 1999 Star Trek: Voyager episode "Think Tank" as Kurros, a genius alien trying to get Seven of Nine to serve on his ship.
Jason Alexander made cameo appearances as himself in 2001 in the second season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and he appeared in the show's seventh season with his three principal Seinfeld co-stars.
Jason Alexander was featured in the Friends 2001 episode "The One Where Rosita Dies" as Earl, a suicidal supply manager.
Jason Alexander describes himself as "free" and says he makes money "selling toner over the phone".
Jason Alexander appeared in "One Night at Mercy", the first episode of the short-lived 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone, playing Death.
Jason Alexander appeared in Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials in 2002, including one with Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants and another with Trista Rehn of The Bachelorette.
In 2018, Jason Alexander portrayed Colonel Sanders in commercials for KFC, reprising his role from the 2002 campaign.
Jason Alexander appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, as Jacob Marley.
Jason Alexander was the principal executive producer of the series, based very loosely on the life of the popular sports-media personality Tony Kornheiser.
Jason Alexander performed on the Family Guy: Live in Vegas 2005 album.
Jason Alexander has appeared in live stage shows, including Barbra Streisand's memorable birthday party in 2005 for Stephen Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl, where he performed selections from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Angela Lansbury.
Jason Alexander featured in the 2005 Monk episode "Mr Monk and the Other Detective" as Monk's rival, Marty Eels.
Jason Alexander was featured as a recurring cast member in the second season of Everybody Hates Chris.
Jason Alexander hosted the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner.
Jason Alexander was the artistic director of Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles from 2007 until it went defunct in 2013, where he previously directed Sunday in the Park with George, and directed its 2007 revival of Damn Yankees.
In 2007, Jason Alexander was a guest star in the third episode of the improv comedy series Thank God You're Here.
Jason Alexander has been a frequent guest and panelist on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect in 1995,1997 and 2000 and Real Time in 2006,2009 and 2012; Hollywood Squares in 1999,2002 and 2004; the Late Late Show in 2003,2012,2014 and 2015, with Craig Kilborn, Craig Ferguson, and James Corden; Late Show with David Letterman in 1989,2000, and 2002; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2015; and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2015.
In 2008, Jason Alexander guest-starred in the season four episode "Masterpiece" of the CBS show Criminal Minds as Professor Rothschild, a well-educated serial killer obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence who sends the team into a race against time to save his last victims.
Jason Alexander returned in the same season to direct the episode "Conflicted", featuring the actor Jackson Rathbone.
Jason Alexander hosted the LOL Sudbury opening night gala in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in 2008, which was simulcast throughout Canada at 60 Cineplex theaters, a first for any comedy festival.
Jason Alexander has lent his voice to several episodes of the Twilight Zone Radio Dramas.
Jason Alexander is backed up by several well-known Australian comedians.
In 2009, Jason Alexander had a small role in the film Hachi: A Dog's Tale as a train station manager.
In 2011, Jason Alexander was the guest star in an episode of Harry's Law, playing a high school teacher bringing a wrongful dismissal suit.
Jason Alexander co-starred opposite Sherie Rene Scott in the 2017 world premiere of John Patrick Shanley's The Portuguese Kid at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
In 2018, Jason Alexander played Olix the bartender in The Orville.
In 2019, Jason Alexander appeared on The Marvelous Mrs Maisel as Asher Friedman, a blacklisted Broadway playwright who is an old friend of Midge Maisel's father Abe Weissman.
In 2020, Jason Alexander hosted the Saturday Night Seder, an online Passover Seder that featured many celebrities and benefited the CDC Foundation.
Jason Alexander performed a mentalism and magic act at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, California, from April 24 to 30,2006, and he was later named The Academy of Magical Arts Parlor Magician of the Year for this act.
Jason Alexander won the academy's Junior Achievement Award in 1989.
Jason Alexander was the national spokesman for the Scleroderma Foundation, a leading organization dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and assisting those who are afflicted.
Iacocca and Jason Alexander both have loved ones whose lives have been adversely affected by autoimmunity.
Jason Alexander competed on televised poker shows and in various tournaments.
Jason Alexander appeared twice on Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown, winning the final table of the 8th season.
Jason Alexander won the $500,000 prize for the charity of his choice, The United Way of America, to help benefit the New Orleans area.
Jason Alexander played in the 2007 World Series of Poker main event, but he was eliminated on the second day.
Jason Alexander has appeared on NBC's Poker After Dark in the "Celebrities and Mentors" episode, finishing in 6th place after being eliminated by professional poker player Gavin Smith.
In 2021, Jason Alexander competed in a virtual National Poker Tournament, hosted by the Children's Tumor Foundation, to raise money for Neurofibromatosis research.
Jason Alexander has been a prominent public supporter of the OneVoice initiative, which seeks out opinions from moderate Israelis and Palestinians who want to achieve a mutual peace agreement, through what it states is the silent majority of Israelis and Palestinians.
On December 6,2012 Jason Alexander emceed his third gala event for non-profit group Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a charity supporting the Israel Defense Forces.
Jason Alexander, who was interviewed at the event by Jewish News Syndicate, stated he supported the OneVoice Movement, and acknowledged an occupation of Palestine and called for a two-state solution, which was later criticized by Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel education group StandWithUs.
Jason Alexander endorsed Barack Obama in 2012 and Joe Biden in 2020.
Jason Alexander has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration and he has ridiculed Donald Trump over his dancing.
Jason Alexander has called Republican Party senator Ted Cruz a jerk from the "jerk store" in reference to a joke from Seinfeld.