Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Jason Alexander

Birth Name: Jason Scott Greenspan

The only of the four main actors (Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus) from "Seinfeld" (1990) not to win an Emmy for their work on the show.

4/30/06: Debuted as a "professional magician" at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles. His act is based on studying and predicting behavioral patterns with his subjects.

Beat out Danny DeVito, Steve Buscemi, and Nathan Lane for the role of "George" in Seinfeld(1990).

Jewish Biography: Jason Alexander

Caroline Aaron

Her late mother, Nina Friedman Abady, was a Selma, Alabama civil rights activist who walked with Martin Luther King in the 60s. She had to endure cross-burnings on her Virginia front lawn. More tragically, the family suffered the loss of their husband and father at the age of 38.

Jewish Biography: Caroline Aaron

Jonah Bobo

Jonah is his middle name, he hates his first name.

He lost four teeth during the shooting of the movie Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005). As the movie takes place in only one day, he had to wear "flippers" (fake teeth).

He has been reading since he was 2 1/2.

Jewish Biography: Jonah Bobo