List of Jewish American entertainers

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Contents

[edit] List

[edit] Actors

[edit] Comedians

[edit] Dance

Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are winners of the Tony Award for Best Choreography.


[edit] Film directors

[edit] Magicians

[edit] Models

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Producers, screenwriters and creators (film and television)

[edit] Professional Wrestlers

[edit] TV and radio presenters

[edit] Theater

Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asteriks (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple asteriks (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Ahdoot[1] "New Yorker Dan Ahdoot is another Iranian Jewish entertainer who defied his community's traditions."
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "Motion Pictures". Encyclopaedia Judaica. (1971-1972). Keter Publishing House. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
  3. ^ Bettinger, Matthew. "Column: Jewish influence, from Ellis Island to Ron Jeremy", The Justice, 2002-10-29. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
  4. ^ Pefferman, Naomi. "Late-Nite Jew", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2001-08-31. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
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  6. ^ Pfefferman, Naomi. "Entertainment icons Milton Berle and Billy Wilder die", The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 2002-04-05. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
  7. ^ Loh, Sandra Tsing. "Inside Shelley Berman, Again", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2006-03-10. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
  8. ^ Faingold, Noma. "Kaballah hasn't dulled Sandra Bernhard's rough edge", The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 1998-03-27. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
  9. ^ Ballon, Marc. "Q & A With Lewis Black", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
  10. ^ Tregarthen, Cheryl. "Victor Borge", Nordic Notes. Retrieved on 2006-11-26.
  11. ^ Phipps, Keith (2006-11-20). Random Rules: Alex Borstein. A.V. Club. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
  12. ^ Parker, James. "'Those words...'", The Boston Globe, 2006-12-03. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g Fox, Michael. "Borat nips Gibson as No. 1 anti-Semite in show biz", The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
  14. ^ a b Franken - [2] "Immediately after, a clip shows Franken suggesting that if he opts to run, he “would be the only New York Jew in the race who grew up in Minnesota.” On Sunday I asked nonchalantly if that meant he considered himself a New York Jew as well as a Minnesotan. “That was a joke,” he said, laughing hysterically once more."
  15. ^ Noted as one of several Jewish comedians at [3]"
  16. ^ a b Swartz, Shauna (2006-11-21). Meet Judy (aka Jewdy) Gold. AfterEllen.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
  17. ^ Handler - Smason, Alan. "Comely comic reveals laughs in ‘Horizontal Life’", Cleveland Jewish News. Retrieved on 2006-11-16.
  18. ^ a b c Bloom, Nate (2006-11-24). "Celebrity Jews". The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. Retrieved on 2006-11-22. 
  19. ^ a b Mason - [4] "Jewish comedian Jackie Mason..."
  20. ^ a b O'Toole, Lesley. "Ben Stiller : 'Doing comedy is scary'", The Independent, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
  21. ^ Takiff, Jonathan (2006-11-21). 'Tis the season.... Philadelphia Daily News. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
  22. ^ Miller, Larry. "I'm... dreaming... of a white... Chri -- ummm, holidays", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
  23. ^ a b c Rivers - [5] "Jewish comedienne JOAN RIVERS has launched a scathing attack on MEL GIBSON..."
  24. ^ Roseanne - [6] "always openly and proudly Jewish..."
  25. ^ Schimmel - [7] "I was supposed to have them until after Christmas, but my ex-wife told the kids that since I'm Jewish and don't celebrate Christmas, Santa would not come to my house and they would miss opening presents from Santa on Christmas morning."
  26. ^ a b c Seder - [8] "says Seder, who's Jewish and has dark curly hair"
  27. ^ Eichner, Itamar. "Israeli minister, American Idol", YNetNew.com, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
  28. ^ a b Apatow - [9] "I look at it as part of my Pat Robertson moral trilogy: The first movie is the anti-sex before marriage. This is the anti-abortion movie. Soon it’ll be the anti-Jew movie and then I’ll realize I’m Jewish and get all confused."
  29. ^ a b Braff - [10] "Zach Braff, the leading actor in NBC's hit comedy Scrubs, is set to visit Israel this coming July. The hot star (31) will arrive in Israel accompanied by his girlfriend, actress and singer Mandy Moore... Braff, a nice Jewish boy, called the Israeli General Consul in Los Angeles, Ehud Danoch, and asked for his assistance with the tour's planning." [11] Mandy Moore on Braff: "I like a good Jewish boy. With a sense of humor." (Moore has a Jewish maternal grandfather) [12] ""I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers." Zach Braff exerted his dietary independence from his Jewish family."
  30. ^ a b Rosen, Steven (2006-11-16). "Want to spoof Purim and the Oscars? Be our Guest!". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles 21 (39). Retrieved on 2006-11-16. 
  31. ^ a b Bloom, Nate (2006-01-27). "Celebrity Jews". The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. 
  32. ^ a b Katzenberg - [13] "Hardie also called on several Jewish members of the entertainment industry, including... Jeffrey Katzenberg"
  33. ^ a b Landis - [14] "Landis: Well, I kept thinking, "Who's gonna be interested in this besides our relatives? I mean, we're just five old Jews on a couch.""
  34. ^ Farber, Stephen. "A Night in Hollywood, a Day in Ukraine", The New York Times, 2006-12-31. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
  35. ^ a b c Elkin, Michael. "Jewish Jingle Belles?", The Jewish Exponent, 2006-12-21. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
  36. ^ "Irving Rapper, the Oscar-winning American-Jewish film director", Jewish Chronicle, 1961-02-10, pp. 30. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
  37. ^ a b R. Reiner - [15] "Reiner, however, said Gibson also must do some "major soul-searching." "It’s not a matter of just apologizing for some words you’ve said," said Reiner, who is Jewish. "It’s to really understand why it is you’re anti-Semitic and where those feelings came from.""
  38. ^ a b Fischer, Paul. "Eli Roth Has The Fever", Film Monthly, 2003-09-02. Retrieved on 2007-01-07.
  39. ^ Zucker - [16] "Two of the initiative’s primary backers, Robert Klein and film producer Jerry Zucker (“Airplane,” “Ghost” and “First Knight”), are Jewish"
  40. ^ Burke - [17] [18]
  41. ^ Vuolo - [19] "SB: Is it correct that you're the first Jewish Playmate? LV: As far as I know, I'm the first Jewish Playmate to admit that I was Jewish. I think there might have been Playmates that were kind of half Jewish and just never really talked about it."
  42. ^ Devlin - [20] "a Jew with Filipino roots is a rare one. But rarer still is a Jew with Filipino roots and working in Hollywood (well, there’s Rob Schneider). Your (bemused) comments, please. I’m a Filipino-Russian Jew with an Irish last name. You can’t get much more mixed up than that."
  43. ^ Haim [21] "Some Iranian Jewish filmmakers are trying to parlay their success to tell their own cultural narratives. Soly Haim, a Los Angeles-based independent producer, is working on a project about how Iranian Jews helped Jews flee Iraq in the middle of the 20th century."
  44. ^ Heinberg - [22] "Jewish authors who may be of interest... Allan Heinberg"
  45. ^ Lindelof - [23] "Abrams and Damon Lindelof, a Jewish guy..."
  46. ^ Nazarian [24] "Yari is not the only Iranian Jew doing well in Hollywood. Nightclub and hotel entrepreneur Sam Nazarian, 30, is financing and producing films through his L.A.-based SBE Entertainment Group."
  47. ^ Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood both mentioned that they are Jewish on the Thirteen DVD commentary, between the 10:00 and 11:00 minute mark
  48. ^ Elkin, Michael. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ...", The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, 2006-12-14. Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
  49. ^ Rosen, Steven. "'The Good Shepherd': I was a young man for the CIA", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
  50. ^ Bloom, Nate (2006-12-19). The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs. InterfaithFamily. Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
  51. ^ Sorkin - [25] "...says the Jewish Sorkin..."
  52. ^ Werner - [26] "Boston also has Jews throughout the front office, including general manager Theo Epstein and chairman Tom Werner."
  53. ^ Yari - [27] "Iranian Jewish film producer Bob Yari's independent film "Crash" won the Best Picture Oscar"
  54. ^ Ziskin - [28] ""Spider-Man" producer Laura Ziskin, who is Jewish..."
  55. ^ Zendel [29] "Young Iranian Jews also have been writing and directing independent features. Prior to forming her own production company, Azita Zendel worked for four years as an executive assistant to Oliver Stone and collaborated with him on films including "JFK," "Nixon" and "Natural Born Killers.""
  56. ^ Waxman, Sharon, Richard Siklos. "New Dispute Over Firing of Publisher", The New York Times, 2006-12-19. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
  57. ^ Hart - [30] "Thought there are no Jewish Republicans in show biz? Well, Bush contributors include... host Mary Hart, who’s a convert to Judaism..."
  58. ^ Daryn Kagan. Jewish Women International (2006-11-22). Retrieved on 2006-11-22.
  59. ^ Chang, Richard. "Slain journalist's father brings message of peace", OC Register, 2006-11-20. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
  60. ^ Kurtz, Suzanne. "‘Trading Spaces’ carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor: Jewish girls can build", Jewish Ledger, 2007-01-02. Retrieved on 2007-01-03.
  61. ^ Roseanne - [31] "always openly and proudly Jewish..."
  62. ^ Schorr - [32] "Schorr suggests in the 2004 anthology “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl.” “We Jews are searchers for truth, sometimes called investigative reporting,” Schorr writes in his personal essay for the book."
  63. ^ Springer - [33] "The Jewish talk-show host..."
  64. ^ Wallace - [34] "Wallace, who said he is Jewish and was brought up in a Zionist home, admitted that earlier in the day he “got himself in trouble for asking provocative questions.”"
  65. ^ Quinn, Sally. "Television Personality Looks Anew At Religion", Washington Post/Newsweek, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
  66. ^ Bing - [35] Rudolf Bing... had been born a Jew in Vienna"
  67. ^ Lasser - [36] "...there are all these Jewish mannerisms that really aren't in my vocabulary, even though I am Jewish."
  68. ^ Hartog, Kelly. "Red carpet rascal", The Jerusalem Post, 2006-12-11. Retrieved on 2006-12-11.

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