Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill was born on December 20, 1983 in Mill Valley, California. His family environment worked in show business, but not as artists, since his mother was an accountant for Guns N ‘Roses. Also his brother Jordan would be the manager of several musical bands. Even as a young man, Johan was a funny boy who wanted to act, and it seems that in high school he wrote his own plays and comedy gags, which he later performed in a bar in New York’s East Village, when he was studying theater at New York University. .

As luck would have it, Hill became friends with Rebecca and Jake Hoffman , then the children of Dustin Hoffman . Thanks to them he met the famous dad, who got him summoned for a casting in Strange Coincidences . There, in 2004, he began his acting career, quite remarkable as far as non-stop is concerned, since he has worked in twenty films in just seven years.

The qualities of a chubby boy with a childish face of astonishment and acne made him an ideal interpreter for thug comedies, where he played with a certain innocence and naivety to further emphasize the crazy and uncouth situations where he was inevitably entangled. Judd Apatow , the new “master” so to speak of this type of film, successor also so to speak of the “kings” Farrelly brothers, has signed him for a handful of films written, directed and/or produced by him, starting with Virgin at 40 . In general, secondary roles have fallen for him, but they allowed him to show off, although he had more weight in Supersalidos (2006), a teen movie with triggered hormones, where he coincided with another young man with an astonished face, the ineffableMichael Cera .

In general, in titles like Make Me Laugh (2009), its function has been precisely to arouse the laughter of the respectable with the gags that were awarded to it; for this reason it was inevitable that he would be summoned to play funny on the famous American television program Saturday Night Live. The actor uses many cinematographic references to compose his films, so he affirms that for All About My Mother he reviewed My Favorite Year and Escape at Midnight .

Undoubtedly his most important role to date is that of Cyrus (2010), where he is the immature son of Marisa Tomei , who is determined to sabotage the love relationship that she has started with a divorced guy. The double face of the character makes it possible to verify that there is more material for an actor in Hill than it seems at first glance. In addition, he landed an executive producing credit on Sacha Baron Cohen’s boorish Brüno , a task he reprises on The Sitter , where he stars. He’s also set to make his writing debut on 21 Jump Street , which won’t arrive until 2012.