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Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career, he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated fo…
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Born 23 September 1959 · Q311754
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2026· 11 entries
“some of the finest, most humane, most admirable, most noble-serving soldiers that I”
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“selling toner over the phone”
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Published video “"In The Beginning…"”.
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Public attention spiked: 8,912 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 2,651, with 1 article edits. Coverage that week: “Jason Alexander apologises for 'inappropriate' Courtney Stodden sketch” (Yahoo).
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Yahoo: Jason Alexander apologises for 'inappropriate' Courtney Stodden sketch
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Yahoo: Jason Alexander Apologizes for Controversial Sketch With Underaged Courtney Stodden
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Us Weekly: Jason Alexander Apologizes to Courtney Stodden for ‘Inappropriate’ Comedy Sketch: ‘I Truly Regret It’
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The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Seinfeld’ Actor Jason Alexander Apologizes to Courtney Stodden for “Inappropriate” Sketch Filmed When She Was Underage
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Published video “Link By Link”.
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Published video “The Seasons Forgot Our Names”.
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2025· 1 entry
Published video “Marry Me”.
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2023· 2 entries
Published video “Extra Time (Not That Great)”.
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On the December 21 primetime CBS special Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic, Alexander performed two songs in conjunction with dance-performers and closed the show with a spoken tribute to Van Dyke
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2022· 2 entries
Published video “Music”.
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Joined Milwaukee Brewers in 2022.
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2021· 2 entries
Published video “A Guy Like You (Remastered 2021)”.
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Alexander competed in a virtual National Poker Tournament, hosted by the Children's Tumor Foundation, to raise money for Neurofibromatosis research
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2020· 4 entries
Published video “Quotes (Or Letters from Israel) by Alexander Tsypkin and Paul Lazarus”.
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2021 and 2022, he reprised the role of Gene Lundy on one episode
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Campaigned for the Texas Democrats with former Seinfeld colleagues Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Larry David
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Alexander hosted the Saturday Night Seder, an online Passover Seder that featured many celebrities and benefited the CDC Foundation
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2019· 1 entry
Alexander appeared on The Marvelous Mrs
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2018).
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Alexander portrayed Colonel Sanders in commercials for KFC, reprising his role from the 2002 campaign
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Alexander played Olix the bartender in The Orville
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2015· 2 entries
Again emceed an event at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in California, which raised $31 million for "provid[ing] educational, cultural and recreational programs and facilities for IDF soldiers
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Replaced Larry David as the lead in David's Broadway play Fish in the Dark
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2013· 1 entry
Where he previously directed Sunday in the Park with George, and directed its 2007 revival of Damn Yankees
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2011· 1 entry
Alexander was the guest star in an episode of Harry's Law, playing a high school teacher bringing a wrongful dismissal suit
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2009· 3 entries
Alexander had a small role in the film Hachi: A Dog's Tale as a train station manager
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Making it to day 3 of the event and finishing in the top 30% of the field
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Played Joseph in the Thomas Nelson audio Bible production The Word of Promise
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2008· 3 entries
Which was simulcast throughout Canada at 60 Cineplex theaters, a first for any comedy festival
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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 a
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And again in 2009, Alexander fronted Jason Alexander's Comedy Spectacular, a routine exclusive to Australia
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2007· 2 entries
Alexander appeared in a commercial for the ASPCA that aired on cable TV stations
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Alexander was a guest star in the third episode of the improv comedy series Thank God You're Here
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2005· 1 entry
For Stephen Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl, where he performed selections from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Angela Lansbury
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2003· 1 entry
Was cast opposite Martin Short in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks's The Producers
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2002· 1 entry
Including one with Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants and another with Trista Rehn of The Bachelorette
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2001· 2 entries
In the second season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and he appeared in the show's seventh season with his three principal Seinfeld co-stars
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And the 2012 video game Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
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1999· 2 entries
Provided narration for the documentary film Sideshow: Alive on the Inside
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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 Quee
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1997· 2 entries
Appeared in Cinderella, a remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, alongside Whitney Houston, Brandy Norwood, and Whoopi Goldberg
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Denial in 1998, and Love and Action in Chicago in 1999
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1995· 1 entry
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 Le
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1990· 1 entry
Alexander has appeared in Jacob's Ladder in 1990, Coneheads in 1993, The Paper and North in 1994, The Last Supper in 1995, Dunston Checks In in 1996, Love
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1989).
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For which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
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2000, and 2002; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2015; and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2015
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1984· 1 entry
And the Neil Simon play Broadway Bound in 1986
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1981· 2 entries
In the summer camp slasher film The Burning
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Kander & Ebb's The Rink in 1984, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound in 1986, Accomplice in 1990, and Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, for which he garnered the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
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1959· 2 entries
Born 1959-09-23.
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In Newark, New Jersey to a Jewish family, the son of Ruth Minnie (née Simon), a nurse and health care administrator, and Alexander B
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