Jonah Hill

Dustin Hoffman's kids stumbled into a New York bar show, liked what they saw, and introduced the performer to their father. That's how Jonah Hill got his first screen credit. He moved through the Judd Apatow orbit (supporting turns in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) until Superbad (2007) made him unavoidable. A first Oscar nomination for Moneyball signaled the pivot from comedy to something harder to categorize. Taking SAG minimum ($60,000) to play Donnie Azoff in The Wolf of Wall Street earned him a second, and stopped the punchline jokes.

A 2023 Instagram post from ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady dropped screenshots of texts from Hill asking her to delete swimsuit photos and distance herself from male friends, framing the whole thing as his 'boundaries.' He reportedly didn't respond. He'd already stopped doing press in 2022 after announcing that promotion caused panic attacks, so the silence fit. His directorial comeback is Outcome (Apple TV+, 2026) with Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz, and he's cast as Jerry Garcia in Martin Scorsese's Grateful Dead biopic. The work is good. The texts conversation isn't finished.

His dad is a Guns N' Roses tour accountant, which explains more about him than his IMDB page. He spent years in his teens making beats under the alias 'Spindrome' (his own description: 'like syndrome, but spinning') before deciding acting was less embarrassing. Born Jonah Hill Feldstein, he quietly dropped the last name in 2023. His sister is Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird, Booksmart). Their older brother Jordan, who managed Maroon 5, died suddenly in 2017. His bar mitzvah theme was 'Jonah Goes Platinum.'