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Jeffrey Tambor

Jeffrey Tambor
Tambor in 2015
Born
Jeffrey Michael Tambor

(1944-07-08) July 8, 1944 (age 80)
Alma materSan Francisco State University
Wayne State University
Occupations
  • Actor
  • acting coach
  • acting teacher
Years active1972–2020
Spouses
Katie Mitchell
(m. 1991; div. 2000)
Kasia Ostlun
(m. 2001)
Children5

Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944)[1] is an American actor, acting coach and acting teacher. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brookes, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the television sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman.

His film roles include Jay Porter in ...And Justice for All (1979), Jinx Latham in Mr. Mom (1983), Sully in There's Something About Mary (1998), Mayor Augustus May Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Tom Manning in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Sid Garner in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Francis Silverberg in The Accountant (2016), and Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin (2017).

Tambor has done voice acting for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Tangled (2010), and Trolls (2016). For his voice role in The Lionhearts (1998), he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. From 2002 to 2003, he was an announcer for Hollywood Squares.

  1. ^ "Jeffrey Tambor: Theater Actor, Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor (1944–)". Biography.com (FYI / A&E Networks). Archived from the original on March 15, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2017.

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