Jeff Garlin Biography
Jeff Garlin is a stand-up comedian and actor from the United States best known for his roles on ABC’s The Goldbergs and on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. For Fox and Netflix, he also played Marvin on Mad About You and Mort Meyers on Arrested Development.
How old is Jeff Garlin? – Age
He is 61 years old as of June 5, 2023. He was born in 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jeff Garlin Family – Education
Gene and Carole (née Crafton) Garlin raised Garlin in Chicago, Illinois. He was up in Morton Grove, Illinois, where his father operated a plumbing supply company called Bilko and his mother was involved in community theater. Michael is his younger brother. Garlin is a devout Jew who attended Hebrew school. Garlin went to Morton Grove Elementary School in Morton Grove, Illinois. He enjoyed athletics in school but had to give them up after being diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a cardiac condition.
Garlin’s father sold his supply business and moved the family to South Florida while he was in sixth grade. In 1980, he graduated from Nova High School in Davie, Florida. He attended Broward Community College before dropping out to study cinema at the University of Miami, where he initially started performing stand-up comedy.
Who is Jeff Garlin’s wife? – Does Jeff Garlin have kids?
On July 24, 1994, Garlin married Marla Beth Cahan. James (born in 1996) and Duke (born in 2000) are the couple’s two kids.After 24 years of marriage, they announced their desire to divorce in September 2018. Garlin announced in March 2020 that he and Cahan have completed their divorce processes.
Jeff Garlin Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Jeff Garlin Illness
Garlin had surgery in Oklahoma City in his late twenties to address the cardiac condition Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which is a malfunction in an auxiliary electrical conduction route in the heart that causes tachycardia. Garlin stated that he was an early recipient (#72) of the procedure, which has been performed on millions of others.
He suffered a stroke in February 2000, just before filming on Curb Your Enthusiasm began. He had noticeably slurred speech in the early episodes of Season One, which gradually improved. He has type II diabetes, which he manages through diet and exercise, in addition to epilepsy and attention deficit disorder. Garlin has written about his food issues and has publicly highlighted his weight issues.
Jeff Garlin The Goldbergs
He appeared as Murray Moshe Goldberg, the sour, somewhat asocial patriarch of the Goldbergs in the American period sitcom television series The Goldbergs. Unlike Beverly, he believes his children are capable and that she overprotects them. Murray prioritizes hard work and has held numerous full-time professions throughout his adolescence, despite his lackadaisical inclinations at home.
He does not always exhibit compassion for his children, regularly referring to them as “morons” when they make errors or act immaturely, but he genuinely cares about them and wants them to learn to fend for themselves. Murray oversees Pops’ furniture business, enjoys sports, and is frequently seen relaxing in his underwear in front of the family TV. Despite Garlin’s resignation from the cast in December 2021, when Season 9 was still in the works, Murray continued on the program through outtakes, CGI, and stand-ins until it was announced that the character would die between the ninth and tenth seasons.
Jeff Garlin Podcast
Garlin presented a show called By the Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin on the comedic podcast network Earwolf, which consisted of spontaneous chats rather than formal interviews. Larry David, Garlin’s Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star, appeared in the first episode. The twice-monthly installments were recorded in front of a live audience in Los Angeles’ Largo at the Coronet. The podcast’s most recent episode was released in February 2015.
Jeff Garlin Stand-Up
Garlin returned to Chicago in 1984, at the age of 22, to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian. He was a member of the comic troupe The Second City. He shared a box office with Stephen Colbert.
Garlin shared a room with Conan O’Brien, a comedy writer at the time, in Wrigleyville, Chicago, in the 1980s. He is still close to O’Brien, and after O’Brien was fired as host of The Tonight Show in 2010 to make room for Jay Leno, Garlin declared that he would not be a guest on the show again.
Denis Leary and Jon Stewart hired Garlin to assist in producing their specials. He worked as a stage director and script editor for their productions. In the same way, he collaborated with Larry David. He still doing standup comedy, where he claims he improvises a lot on stage and feels quite relaxed, “maybe too relaxed.”
Jeff Garlin Movies
♦ 2022 – Studio 666
♦ 2022 – Babylon
♦ 2020 – This Is the Year
♦ 2019 – Toy Story 4
♦ 2019 – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
♦ 2017 – Lemon
♦ 2017 – Handsome
♦ 2017 – Becoming Bond
♦ 2014 – Laggies
♦ 2013 – Dealin’ with Idiots
♦ 2012 – ParaNorman
♦ 2012 – Safety Not Guaranteed
♦ 2011 – Hawaiian Vacation
♦ 2011 – Cars 2
♦ 2011 – Adventures in the Sin Bin
♦ 2010 – The Bounty Hunter
♦ 2010 – Toy Story 3
Jeff Garlin TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Never Have I Ever
♦ 2021 – Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
♦ 2020 – Forky Asks a Question
♦ 2019 – Celebrity Family Feud
♦ 2017 – SpongeBob SquarePants
♦ 2014 – 2 Broke Girls
♦ 2014 – Family Guy
♦ 2013 – Maron
♦ 2013–2022 – The Goldbergs
♦ 2011 – Community
♦ 2010 – Entourage
♦ 2008 – Shorty McShorts’ Shorts
♦ 2008 – The Life & Times of Tim
♦ 2008 – BURN-E
♦ 2008–2010 – Wizards of Waverly Place
♦ 2007 – Law & Order: Criminal Intent
♦ 2006 – Hooked