- Born
- Birth nameJonah Hill Feldstein
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from Crossroads School in Santa Monica and went on to The New School in New York to study drama.
He began writing and performing in plays while at college in New York, and managed to get himself introduced to Dustin Hoffman, through whom he got an audition for his first film role in I Heart Huckabees (2004). A succession of increasingly high-profile film and TV parts followed until he eventually landed one of the starring roles in the teen hit, Superbad (2007). Continuing to write and act, more roles followed as well as popular appearances on US TV talk shows.- IMDb mini biography by: IMDb Editors
- Parents
- RelativesJordan Feldstein(Sibling)Beanie Feldstein(Sibling)
- Raspy/excited voice
- Known for his sarcastic deadpan delivery of elaborate quips.
- Has a tattoo on his left forearm that reads "Nancy Rules". It is a tribute to his grandmother.
- Officiated the wedding between childhood friend Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo.
- His top five favorite films are Rushmore (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Boogie Nights (1997), Back to the Future (1985) and Goodfellas (1990). (2010)
- As of 2022, he has appeared in 4 movies that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Moneyball (2011), Django Unchained (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Don't Look Up (2021).
- Was roommates with Justin Long after they met on the TV show Campus Ladies (2006).
- I was going to the beach with my girlfriend's family. They're all really big into soccer and her brother was this soccer superstar. And I'm hanging out at the beach with all these jocks and then there's me. I know nothing about sports. I don't even know what a sport is. I have to confess that I'm a little afraid of birds. I am...whatever. So we're sitting on the beach and this bird flies toward me and all I could say was 'Pleaaaase!' Like 'Please don't hurt me,' 'Please don't fly in my direction?' I don't know. And everyone cracked up and was doing impressions of it the whole rest of the day.
- It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.
- [on Henry Winkler and their family at Zoe Winkler's wedding] I spent 48 percent of my youth here..They were like parents to all of our friends. We got parents and then we got the Winklers. I feel like my sister's getting married.
- I despise common people. They make me throw up.
- It wasn't the baseball or the numbers I connected to. It was the obsessiveness. Bennett [Miller] said that the way we talk about actors and roles and movies with each other is the way my character should be able to talk to Brad's about baseball. It's what we do all the time about movies-we analytically shit-talk everybody's strengths and weaknesses! Everybody I know does that. So that was my in.
- 22 Jump Street (2014) - $5,000,000
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - $60,000
- 21 Jump Street (2012) - $3,500,000
- Moneyball (2011) - $2,000,000
- Superbad (2007) - $350,000
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