Jonah Hill

About Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor and screenwriter. Hill has had a successful career as an actor in comedic films, appearing in roles in the films Accepted, Grandma's Boy, Click, 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Evan Almighty, This Side of the Truth, Strange Wilderness, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Hill was born Jonah Hill Feldstein into a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California and attended Brentwood School and then Crossroads School in Santa Monica. After graduating from high school, Hill left California to attend school with close friend Joseph Caloiero at New School University, where he studied acting. Hill attended the University of Colorado for one semester as a freshman after having left New School University. Hill's brother Jordan is the manager for the bands Maroon 5, Staind, Big City Rock, and Collective Soul.

In college, Jonah Hill began writing his own plays and performing them in the Black and White bar in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. His plays developed a small following and helped him realize that his true desire was to act in film. Hill befriended Dustin Hoffman's children, Rebecca and Jake, who introduced him to their father. The elder Hoffman asked him to audition for a role in I Heart Huckabees, in which Hill made his film debut. Hill made a brief appearance in Judd Apatow's directorial debut The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which eventually lead to him starring in a larger supporting role in the Apatow-directed Knocked Up and the lead role in the Apatow-produced Superbad.