Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld
Seinfeld in 2016
Birth name	Jerome Allen Seinfeld
Born	(1954-04-29) April 29, 1954 (age 70) New York City, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up television film
Alma mater	State University of New York at Oswego Queens College, City University of New York (BA)
Years active	1976–present
Genres	Observational comedy clean comedy cringe comedy surreal humor deadpan satire
Subject(s)	American culture American politics everyday life gender differences human behavior social awkwardness pop culture current events
Spouse	Jessica Sklar ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	3
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Website	jerryseinfeld.com

Jerome Allen Seinfeld (/ˈsaɪnfɛld/ SYNE-feld; born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He played a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld, which he created and wrote with Larry David. The show aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998, becoming one of the most acclaimed and popular sitcoms of all time. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in observational comedy. In 2004, Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest stand-up comedian of all time.^[1]

Seinfeld co-produced, co-wrote, and starred in the 2007 film Bee Movie, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. In 2010, he premiered the reality series The Marriage Ref, which aired for two seasons on NBC, and afterward, he created and hosted the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–2019). He is married to author and philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, with whom he has three children. Seinfeld has received 20 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on Seinfeld and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, as well as four Grammy Award nominations for his comedy albums.