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Jeffrey Michael Tambor was born on July 8, 1944 in San Francisco, California, United States. But his Jewish ancestry links him to Russia and Hungary. His striking eyebrows, wide bald head, prominent teeth, and long face like an egg, give him an ideal appearance for comedy, especially since he often keeps his face serious or even furious in the most absurd and absurd situations. it helps the viewer to smile and even laugh.

Although his specialty is jokes, Jeffrey Tambor’s career is very serious, as he trained as an actor at San Francisco State University, and obtained a degree at Wayne University, also state. His first acting steps were as a stock actor, and in 1976 he made his Broadway debut in “Sly Fox” under the direction of the prestigious Arthur Penn , and alongside an actor of the category of George C. Scott . When he jumped to the small and big screen he would not stop working for a moment, to date he has acted in more than 150 productions.

On television he had a very testimonial first presence in episodes of the Kojak and Starsky and Hutch series in 1977 and 1978. This led him to his big screen debut alongside Al Pacino in Justice for All ( Norman Jewison , 1979), a drama judicial where he gave life to a lawyer. Curiously, he then found himself linked for two years to a British soap opera, The Ropers , a spin-off of Robin’s Nest , in which he had to play an unbearable neighbor of the leading couple. The television gave a lot of cut to Tambor, who would have a presence in series such as De nine a cinco , Apartamento para tres ,Holidays at Sea , Mr. Sunshine , Johnny Quest , Max Headrom, the man on the screen , and, above all, Sad Song of Hill Street , where his character as a judge demanded that he intervene in more than twenty episodes.

At the beginning of the 90s, he could be seen in the comedies ¡Qué asco de vida! ( Mel Brooks , 1991) and City Cowboys ( Ron Underwood , 1991). The truth is that he is impeccably associated with this genre, and has only sporadically worked in others such as drama – Clinical Unemployment (1992), Pollock (2000), Do You Know Joe Black ? (2003)–, the thriller – The House on the Hill (1993), Kidnapping Miss Tingle (1999)–, the fantastic – Hellboy (2004) and its 2008 sequel–, also fulfilling in these cases that their characters have a clearly bizarre point.

His roles are often brief, but Tambor’s face is recognizable, the viewer has someone like family before him. And he frequents all kinds of movies for laughs, from the clearly family-oriented ones – in addition to animated films, he has been in Doctor Dolittle (1998), The Muppets in Space (1999), The Grinch (2000), The Muppets and the Wizard of Oz (2005) and Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011)– to the most hooligans like the emblematic film by the Farrelly brothers – Something Happens to Mary (1998)–, Superhero Movie (2008), Incredible, but false (2009), Hangover in Las Vegas(2009) and its almost immediate 2011 sequel, and Paul (2011). He also has a small role in a more sophisticated comedy, Win Win, We All Win (2011), by the great Thomas McCarthy . So prolific is the actor that in 2011 alone he plans to be in… 12 films or television series. It brought him an Emmy nomination for Arrested Development , a telecomedy that will jump to the cinema in 2012.

With such a panorama, it is not so surprising that he discovered the delights of family life late, since he did not marry Kathryn Mitchel until 1991 –with whom he already had a daughter born in 1975–, whom he divorced in 2000. Since 2001 he has been married to Kasia Otlsun who has given him… four offspring! Two of them twins. One was born in 2004, just when his eldest daughter made him a grandfather.