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Hank Azaria
Henry Albert Azaria is an American actor and producer. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, including Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Superintendent Chalmers, Comic Book Guy, Snake, Professor Frink, Kirk Van Houten, Duffman, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, and Carl Carlson, among others. Azaria joined the show with little voice acting experience, but beca…
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Born 25 April 1964 · Q202056
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2026· 3 entries
“I can remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise ... they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I”
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Page Six: Watch ‘Simpsons’ star Hank Azaria perfectly impersonate Bruce Springsteen
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Who is the real Hank Azaria? For a while, even he didn’t know.
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Deadline.com: Hank Azaria Fears AI Will Replace Him On ‘The Simpsons’: “Just Plain Wrong”
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2024· 2 entries
New York Post: Hank Azaria channels ‘Simpsons’ character for special Yankees fan message after Juan Soto miss
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Yahoo: Hank Azaria is turning down acting roles to focus on his Bruce Springsteen cover band
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2023· 4 entries
Entertainment Weekly: Hank Azaria recalls how Matthew Perry helped him get sober: 'We were more like brothers'
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Decider: Hank Azaria Mourns The Late Matthew Perry, His "First Friend" In Los Angeles: "He Was Just The Funniest Person Ever"
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New York Post: Hank Azaria says ‘caring’ Matthew Perry helped get him sober: He brought me to first AA meeting
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Uproxx: ‘The Simpsons’ Star Hank Azaria Was ‘Really Scared’ About ‘The Problem With Apu’ Documentary But Now He’s ‘Grateful’
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2022· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: Hank Azaria Admitted He Was ‘Jealous’ of Ex-Wife Helen Hunt and Her Success
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2016· 7 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Ray Donovan (2016).
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Was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) from Tufts University
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IFC confirmed development on the series, on which Azaria also served as an executive producer
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Starred in the world premiere of Dry Powder opposite Claire Danes, John Krasinski, and Sanjit De Silva, directed by Thomas Kail, at the off-Broadway Public Theater in New York City
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As well as earning a further nomination the same category the following year
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As well as Shelfish Sheldon in Mack & Moxy the same year
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Azaria starred in Norman with Richard Gere
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for The Simpsons (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Airing on AOL as an online series titled Fatherhood
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2013· 1 entry
The family began renting a home on 80th Street in Manhattan, with plans to make a final decision on where to live in two years
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2012· 1 entry
Voiced several insects in a commercial for the Chevrolet Sonic
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2011· 3 entries
Azaria starred in the NBC sitcom Free Agents, a remake of the British series of the same name
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Told the Los Angeles Times that this project was "half-complete" and was "forever looking for financing to finish it
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They previously lived in a four-bedroom house in Pacific Palisades, which Azaria bought from his Simpsons co-star Dan Castellaneta in 2011.
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2009· 2 entries
Azaria told Empire he was instead focusing on making a documentary about fatherhood
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And 2010, but lost to co-star Dan Castellaneta and guest star Anne Hathaway respectively
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2008· 1 entry
Production for the twentieth season was put on hold due to new contract negotiations with the voice actors, who wanted a "healthy bump" in salary
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2007· 1 entry
Playing David Sarnoff in The Farnsworth Invention
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2006· 2 entries
Azaria has continued to make multiple film appearances
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“has become a weird kind of eulogy to him.”
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (2005).
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Including a nomination for Azaria for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
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That Azaria was "by far" her favorite actor, praising his "versatility" and "tendency to take small roles that would normally fade into the background and to consistently create characters people care about," noting his
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2004· 2 entries
“s Perfect, which won the Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Short at the US Comedy Arts Festival. In January 2007, he was confirmed to be directing Outsourced, a film about two American workers who journey to get their jobs back, after their factory is moved to Mexico. In 2009, Azaria told Empire he was instead focusing on making a documentary about fatherhood. In 2011, he told the Los Angeles Times that this project was”
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The voice actors intentionally skipped several script read-throughs, demanding they be paid $360,000 per episode
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2003· 2 entries
Azaria played journalist Michael Kelly, the former editor of The New Republic, in the drama film Shattered Glass
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Appeared as Bernard in a run of David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, along with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver, in London's West End
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2002· 1 entry
Replacing Emeril mid-season in the NBC lineup
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Tuesdays with Morrie (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Starred in the drama Mystery, Alaska as Charles Danner, and the comedy superhero film Mystery Men, as the faux-British silverware throwing expert The Blue Raja
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1996· 1 entry
Azaria played gay Guatemalan housekeeper Agador Spartacus in the film The Birdcage
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1990· 1 entry
But United States district judge Gary Allen Feess ruled that only Azaria's voice was, as Brockmire, a defined, "tangible" character and thus subject to copyright
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1988· 1 entry
In which he had one line, and the following year he played Steve Stevenson in an episode of Growing Pains
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1980· 1 entry
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1980).
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1964· 2 entries
Born 1964-04-25.
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To Ruth and Albert Azaria
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