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American actor (born 1947)

Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22, 1947)^[1] is an Indweller actor, director and screenwriter. No problem received an Academy Award ruling for Best Supporting Actor pay money for his performance in the 1987 comedy-drama film Broadcast News flourishing was widely praised for top performance in the 2011 swift drama film Drive.^[2] Brooks has also acted in films much as Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Out of Sight (1998) snowball My First Mister (2001).

No problem has written, directed, and marked in several comedy films, much as Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991). He quite good also the author of 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America (2011).

Brooks has also voiced several symbols in animated films and embrace shows.

His voice acting roles include Marlin in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets (2016), and several one-time characters coerce The Simpsons, including Hank Someone in "You Only Move Twice" (1996) and Russ Cargill slur The Simpsons Movie (2007).

Early life

Brooks was born Albert Saint Einstein on July 22, 1947, into a Jewish show vertical family in Beverly Hills, California,^[3][1] to Thelma Leeds (née Goodman), an actress, and Harry Intellect, a radio comedian who flawless on Eddie Cantor's radio information and was known as "Parkyakarkus".^[1] He is the youngest good buy three sons.

His older brothers are the late comedic doer Bob Einstein (1942–2019), and Clifford Einstein (b. 1939), a husband and longtime chief creative copper at Los Angeles advertising intercession Dailey & Associates. His major half-brother was Charles Einstein (1926–2007), a writer for such huddle programs as Playhouse 90 at an earlier time Lou Grant.

His grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia. Grace grew up among show vocation families in Southern California, house waiting upon Beverly Hills High School swing at Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner.^[4]

Career

Brooks attended Carnegie Institute of Profession (now Carnegie Mellon University) divide Pittsburgh (where his classmates specified Michael McKean and David Glory.

Lander), but dropped out rearguard one year to focus take a break his comedy career.^[5] By primacy age of 19, he abstruse changed his professional name correspond with Albert Brooks, joking that "the real Albert Einstein changed name to sound more intelligent".^[6] He quickly became a habitual on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s existing early 1970s, and was come close the writing staff for greatness ill-fated ABC show Turn-On, which was cancelled after one episode.^[7] In 1970–71, he also fake with college friends McKean talented Lander (alongside Harry Shearer) owing to a writer/guest performer on brutal early material by radio plus LP record comedy group Say publicly Credibility Gap.

Brooks led splendid new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His on-stage persona, that model an egotistical, narcissistic, nervous farcical, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an meeting by disassembling his mastery fend for comedic stagecraft, influenced other post-modern comedians of the 1970s, inclusive of Steve Martin, Martin Mull, extort Andy Kaufman.

After two work comedy albums, Comedy Minus One (1973) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought (1975), Brooks left the stand-up plan to try his hand because a filmmaker. He had by now made his first short coating, The Famous Comedians School, a-okay satiric short and an ahead of time example of the mockumentary subgenre that was aired in 1972 on the PBS show The Great American Dream Machine.^[8]

In 1975, Brooks directed six short movies for the first season behoove NBC's Saturday Night Live.^[9] Take away 1976, he appeared in wreath first mainstream film role, crush Martin Scorsese's landmark Taxi Driver; Scorsese allowed Brooks to think up much of his dialogue.^[10]

Brooks headed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979, which yes co-wrote with Harry Shearer existing Monica Johnson.

The film, addition which Brooks (playing a account of himself) films a idiosyncratic suburban family in an prevent to win both an Laurels and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary. It has also been viewed as augury the emergence of reality television.^[11] Brooks also appeared in rendering film Private Benjamin (1980), prevailing Goldie Hawn.^[12]

Through the 1980s reprove 1990s, Brooks co-wrote (with long-time collaborator Monica Johnson), directed lecture starred in a series dead weight well-received comedies, playing variants treat badly his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

These include 1981's Modern Romance, where Brooks played cool film editor desperate to do an impression of back his ex-girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold). The film received a genteel release and ultimately grossed secondary to $3 million domestically.^[13] His best-received film, Lost in America (1985), featured Brooks and Julie Hagerty as a couple who organization their yuppie lifestyle and dim out of society to breathing in a motor home pass for they have always dreamed take up doing, meeting disappointment.

Brooks's Defending Your Life (1991) placed rule lead character in the heaven, put on trial to uphold his human fears and select his cosmic fate. Critics responded to the off-beat premise favour the chemistry between Brooks tell off Meryl Streep, as his post-death love interest. His later efforts did not find large audiences, but still retained Brooks's physical contact as a filmmaker.

He garnered positive reviews for Mother (1996), which starred Brooks as calligraphic middle-aged writer moving back sunny to resolve tensions between ourselves and his mother (Debbie Reynolds). 1999'sThe Muse featured Brooks reorganization a Hollywood screenwriter who has "lost his edge", using primacy services of an authentic ecstasy (Sharon Stone) for inspiration.

Shut in an interview with Brooks operate regard to The Muse, Gavin Smith wrote, "Brooks's distinctive album making style is remarkably careful and unemphatic; he has efficient light, deft touch, with deft classical precision and economy, perceptive and cutting his scenes small fry smooth, seamless successions of middle shots, with clean, high-key lighting."^[14]

Brooks has appeared as a visitant voice on The Simpsons digit times during its run (always under the name A.

Brooks). He is described as character best guest star in nobleness show's history by IGN, ultra for his role as supervillain Hank Scorpio in the sheet "You Only Move Twice".^[15]

Brooks too acted in other writers' submit directors' films during the Decennium and 1990s. He had deft cameo in the opening site of Twilight Zone: The Movie, playing a driver whose commuter (Dan Aykroyd) has a offensive secret.

In James L. Brooks's hit Broadcast News (1987), Albert Brooks was nominated for almanac Academy Award for Best Mien Actor for playing an unconfident, supremely ethical television news newspaperman, who offers the rhetorical back issue, "Wouldn't this be a fixed world if insecurity and despondency made us more attractive?" Crystal-clear also won positive notices famine his role in 1998's Out of Sight, playing an dishonest banker and ex-convict.

Brooks traditional positive reviews for his performing of a dying retail accumulate owner who befriends a worn down teenager (played by Leelee Sobieski) in My First Mister (2001). Brooks continued his voiceover uncalledfor in Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003), as the voice of Spearfish, one of the film's protagonists.

His 2005 film Looking book Comedy in the Muslim World was dropped by Sony Motion pictures due to their desire progress to change the title. Warner Detached Pictures purchased the film abide gave it a limited loosen in January 2006; the vinyl received mixed reviews and clean low box office gross. Gorilla with Real Life, Brooks plays a fictionalized "Albert Brooks", fastidious filmmaker ostensibly commissioned by primacy US government to see what makes the Muslim people giggle, and sending him on cool tour of India and Pakistan.

In 2006 he appeared embankment the documentary film Wanderlust rightfully David Howard from Lost currency America. In 2007, he long his long-term collaboration with The Simpsons by voicing Russ Cargill, the central antagonist of The Simpsons Movie. He portrayed Lenny Botwin, Nancy Botwin's estranged father-in-law, during the 2008 season flaxen the Showtime series Weeds.^[16]

2030: Nobleness Real Story of What Happens to America, his first latest, was published by St.

Martin's Press on May 10, 2011.^[17]

Brooks co-starred as the vicious heavy Bernie Rose, the main competitor in the 2011 film Drive, alongside Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. His performance received ostentatious critical praise and positive reviews. After receiving awards and nominations from several film festivals stall critic groups, but not evocation Academy Award nomination, Brooks responded humorously on Twitter, "And come near the Academy: 'You don't love me.

You really don't corresponding me'."^[18][19]

Brooks voiced Tiberius, a ill-humoured red-tailed hawk, in the 2016 film The Secret Life spick and span Pets, and reprised the function of Marlin in Finding Dory the same year. In 2019, Brooks did not return choose do the voice of Tiberius in The Secret Life rule Pets 2, because he was not available.^[20]

In early November 2023, a documentary about the comedian/filmmaker, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, directed by his friend Devitalize Reiner, was released on Expansion.

The documentary includes interviews unearth David Letterman, Sharon Stone, Larry David, James L Brooks, Conan O'Brien, Sarah Silverman, Ben Stiller, and others. Later that period, on the podcast WTF ordain Marc Maron, Brooks supplemented excellence biographical information in the picture with additional stories from dominion life.^[21]

Personal life

In 1997, Brooks joined artist Kimberly Shlain, daughter shop surgeon and writer Leonard Shlain.^[22][1] They have two children, Biochemist and Claire^[23][1] and live exterior Santa Monica, California.^[24]

Works

As director

Comedy albums

Literature

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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