Jonah Hill (born December 20, 1983 as Jonah Hill Feldstein in Los Angeles, California) is a two-time Academy Award nominated American actor in film and television. He has also been involved as a writer on films, including co-creating the Short Running Fox animated series Allen Gregory.
He is the older brother of actress Beanie Feldstein.
Filmography:
- I Heart Huckabees - His film debut
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin - Solidified him as part of Judd Apatow's Frat Pack
- Click
- Accepted
- Knocked Up
- Evan Almighty
- Superbad - His Star-Making Role
- Horton Hears a Who!
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- Funny People
- Cyrus
- The Invention of Lying
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Get Him to the Greek
- Megamind
- Moneyball - Received his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor
- The Sitter
- 21 Jump Street
- The Watch (2012)
- Django Unchained
- This Is the End
- The Wolf of Wall Street - Received his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor
- The LEGO Movie
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- 22 Jump Street
- Hail, Caesar!
- Sausage Party
- War Dogs
- Maniac
- mid90s - His directorial debut.
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
This actor provides examples of:
- Bromantic Comedy: In Superbad, the 21 Jump Street franchise, Get Him to the Greek, and Knocked Up.
- Hidden Depths: He has shown off his singing abilities in 21 Jump Street.
- Jerkass: In Superbad and This Is the End (the latter of the Sugary Malice variety).
- Large Ham: Does this in his comedy roles save for Get Him to the Greek.
- Manchild: Famous for playing these as seen in Cyrus, Superbad and the 21 Jump Street franchise.
- Only Sane Man: Sometimes seen especially in Get Him to the Greek.
- Running Gag: Being told that he looks like Seth Rogen from Funny People to 22 Jump Street.
- Tom Hanks Syndrome: After playing in awkward comedy roles he was nominated for an academy award in MoneyBall and turned in a series of well-received dramatic roles.
- Typecasting: Usually cast in comedy films that are cringe-inducing.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: All of his comedy films before Get Him to the Greek except This Is the End.
- What Could Have Been: Was in final negotiations to be in the upcoming Matt Reeves directed solo Batman movie as a villain note . His team and Warner Bros. couldn’t come to a deal and mutually agreed to move on.
