1. Jeffrey Garlin was born on June 5,1962 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
41 Facts About Jeff Garlin
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Jeff Garlin is best known for playing Murray Goldberg, patriarch of the eponymous family in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, and Jeff Greene on the HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Jeff Garlin played Marvin on Mad About You and Mort Meyers on Arrested Development for Fox and Netflix.
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Jeff Garlin was born on June 5,1962, in Chicago, Illinois, to Gene and Carole Jeff Garlin.
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Jeff Garlin grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois, where his father owned a plumbing supply business called Bilko and his mother was active in community theater.
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Jeff Garlin has said he wanted to be a comedian since he was eight, when he saw Jimmy Durante perform in Chicago.
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When Jeff Garlin was in sixth grade, his father sold his supply business and the family relocated to South Florida.
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Jeff Garlin graduated from Nova High School in Davie, Florida, in 1980.
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Jeff Garlin attended Broward Community College, followed by a stint studying film at the University of Miami, where he first began to perform stand-up comedy.
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In 1984, aged 22, Jeff Garlin moved back to Chicago to pursue a stand-up comedy career.
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Jeff Garlin performed with the comedy troupe The Second City.
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Jeff Garlin worked in the box office with Stephen Colbert.
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Jeff Garlin remains close to O'Brien, and after O'Brien was removed as host of The Tonight Show in 2010 so that Jay Leno could return, Garlin said he would not be a guest on the show again.
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Jeff Garlin was hired by comedians Denis Leary and Jon Stewart to help develop their specials.
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Jeff Garlin worked as a stage director for their shows and edited the scripts.
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Jeff Garlin worked with Larry David in this same way.
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From 1997 to 1999, Jeff Garlin spent three seasons on NBC's Mad About You in the role of Marvin.
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Jeff Garlin had a recurring role on the series Wizards of Waverly Place as Uncle Kelbo, appearing in three episodes over the first three seasons.
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Jeff Garlin had a small role in RoboCop 3 as "Donut Jerk" after a member of the casting crew saw him eat a doughnut while leaving Krispy Kreme with an additional two dozen doughnuts.
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Jeff Garlin had a cameo appearance in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me in 1999.
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Jeff Garlin appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal and in Daddy Day Care.
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In 2008, Jeff Garlin appeared in The Rocker as Stan, and played Ed Lawson in Strange Wilderness.
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Jeff Garlin appeared as Sid, alongside Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, in the 2010 comedy action film The Bounty Hunter.
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Jeff Garlin played Ed Burch in Laggies, released in 2014.
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In 2006, Jeff Garlin directed This Filthy World, a one-man show performed by director John Waters.
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Jeff Garlin was a voice actor in WALL-E, as B McCrea, the captain of the Axiom spaceship.
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In 2013, Jeff Garlin signed onto the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, which premiered on September 24,2013.
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Jeff Garlin played Murray Goldberg, the father of the title family.
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In December 2021, as shooting of the show's ninth season neared completion, Jeff Garlin left the series following misconduct allegations and investigations by the show's human resources department, initially reported in November 2019.
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In July 2013, Jeff Garlin directed his second film, Dealin' with Idiots, inspired by his experiences with his sons in Little League.
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In October 2019, Jeff Garlin revealed he would have a role in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the final installment of the Star Wars saga, which was released on December 20,2019.
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On December 3,2021, Vanity Fair published an article detailing that Jeff Garlin had been under investigation for three years for "allegedly engag[ing] in a pattern of verbal and physical conduct on [the set of The Goldbergs] that made people uncomfortable".
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Jeff Garlin's departure was said to be a mutual decision.
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In 2010, Jeff Garlin published a book, My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World, a memoir that documents his journey to lessen his carbon footprint.
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In March 2018, Jeff Garlin was one of the actors who voiced the audiobook A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo.
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In March 2020, Jeff Garlin said that he and Cahan were at the end of their divorce proceedings.
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Jeff Garlin has been dating Sari Tracht, an editor, since early 2021.
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Jeff Garlin says it has helped him with symptoms of ADHD.
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O'Brien has said that sometimes Jeff Garlin woke him up in the middle of the night and made him perform skits.
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Jeff Garlin said he was an early recipient of the surgery, which millions of people have undergone.
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Jeff Garlin has written about his problems with food and discussed his weight problems publicly.