By surbhi garg | February 23, 2014 0 Comments

Net Worth: $75 Million

Introduction

Jason Alexander was born on September 23, 1959 in Newark, New Jersey. His birth name is Jay Scott Greenspan which later changed to Jason Alexander as his professional name. Jason is a professional American actor, director, producer, writer and singer. He married to Daena E. Title in the year 1982. He has two children – Gabriel Alexander and Noah Alexander. He is famous for the role of George Costanza on Seinfeld from 1989-1998. He is a very rich man. He is multitalented and is a comedian also. He received a number of titles and wards in the awards functions. He received Tony award as the best leading actor in musical. He is the director of the film ‘Reprise’. He is also a good poker player.

Early Life

He is a son Jewish parents, mother Ruth Minnie was a nurse and health care administrator and father Alexander B. Greenspan who was an accounting manager. He has a half-sister and half-brother, Karen Van Home and Michel Greenspan respectively. Though he born in Newark, New Jersey but he grew up in Livingston, New Jersey as he is a graduate from Livingston High School in 1977. At the early age he was suffered from Asthma because of which his vice was wheezy, after his school, he joined Boston University but left in the senior year as he got the job. He was magician at time but left that and switched to acting because of the intuition that he might not be successful as a magician.

Career

Jason began his career in acting in New York and got half of his fortune from acting. He appeared in Stephen Sondheim’s Merilly We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb’s The Rink, Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound and Jerome Robbin’s Broadway for which he got the 1989 Tony Award for bet featured actor in Musical.

In 1977, while he was studying in high school, one of his classmates, Julia Montgomery co-starred in numerous high school productions. He also known for playing flute. Some of his high school credits are ‘Guys and dolls’, ‘The Old Couple’ and ‘Oliver’. He is really an awesome actor and director, this can be easily see from the fact that he has an extensive knowledge of the original Star Trek (1966) episodes. On the radio show, Howard Stern (1944) he asked many skill testing question about the episode Star Trek. In 2002, he decided to join the University of Southern California not to learn but to teach the acting to the students. It is funny that he started losing his at the very age of 16.

While filming Seinfeld he always use the dress one size small, so that it give funny look and look ‘uncool’. In 2006, at the ‘Magic castle in Los Angeles’ he acted as a magician and gave a performance on studying a predicting behavioral patterns. He won $250,000 on the episode ‘who wants to be a Millionaire’ in 2002. He completed his task of correctly identifying the Gerald Ford as the president. This money was later divided into three charities. He lent his voice to the album Family Guy in the year 1999. Later in the year 2010, he started running his own company called Angel Ark Publications in Los Angeles.

Personal Quotes

Some of his personal quotes are ‘I am not bald. I shave my head to keep in character with George’.  Jason Alexander was popular for his role of George Costanza in the comedy show Seinfeld. Next quote is ‘The greatest part of the job was..that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work’, ‘I still don’t know much about movie’ whereas he played roles in TV shows and Movies including the role in Pretty Woman, where he played a role of a lawyer, and a shallow hall in which he is actually pretending and inept womanizer.  Another quote is ‘the shoe is like an Edwardian play- emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that’s terrific for actors to play in’.

Poker

Recently Jason competed in various tournaments of poker. He won the final table of the 8^th season on the Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown. He won $500,000 and donated it to the charity. He is an avid poker player. He played in 2007 World Series of Poker event, but unluckily eliminated in the second round.

Richness

His total worth is $75 Million. He has homes in New York and California, U.S. at the age of 14 he used to drive the bicycle on the roads and today is so much rich that he owned number of cars. His nicknames are Jay and Pretzel Boy. He earned a lot from the films and the TV shows. His main role was in Seinfeld and people really like it. He is good actor and director at the same time. He also earned from his shows of magician. He donated $500,000 in the charity which he won in the poker game. Not only had this he lent his voice to the episodes of ‘Twilight Zone radio Dramas’. Recently it was in the news that he soon going to join the series of Nickelodeon. In the music videos ‘Celebrity’ and ‘Online’ , Jason was featured in the country music star Brad Paisley.