Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill Feldstein, known professionally as Jonah Hill, is an American actor, producer, and comedian. Hill is known for his comedic roles in films such as Accepted, Superbad, Knocked Up, 21 Jump Street, This Is the End, and 22 Jump Street, as well as his performances in Moneyballand The Wolf of Wall Street, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 December 1983
CountryUnited States of America
'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.
In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.
I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.
I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.
I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.
If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'
I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.
I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.
It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.