Judd Apatow Biography
Judd Apatow is a comedian, film director, author, and screenwriter from the United States known for being the founder of Apatow Productions, which produced and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40, Trainwreck, and The King of Staten Island.
How old is Judd Apatow? – Age
The Apatow Productions owner is 53 years old as of 6 December 2020. He was born in 1967 in Flushing, New York, United States.
Judd Apatow Family
Judd Apatow was born in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens and raised in Syosset, New York, on Long Island, as one of three children of Maury Apatow, a real estate developer, and Tamara Shad, who run the music label Mainstream Records created by her father, Bob Shad. His parents are Jewish, but they are not religious. Robert Apatow is Apatow’s older brother, and Mia is his younger sister.
In 2008, their mother passed away. Molly, his maternal grandmother, appeared in his film This Is 40 as a co-star. His parents divorced when he was 12 years old. Mia moved in with her mother, while Robert moved in with his maternal grandparents. Apatow spent much of his childhood with his father and only saw his mother on weekends. Judd Apatow’s mother worked at a comedy club for a summer, and it was there that he first saw the live stand-up comedy. As a child, Apatow was fascinated with comedy, and his idols included Steve Martin, Bill Cosby, and the Marx Brothers.
How did Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann meet? – Wife – Children
Apatow is married to actress Leslie Mann, who he met on the set of the 1996 comedy film The Cable Guy, where he served as producer. The couple married on June 9, 1997, in Los Angeles. They have two daughters who are both actors; their firstborn daughter Maude Apatow was born on 15 December 1997 while their second-born daughter Iris Apatow was born on 12 October 2002. He together with his family lives in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.
What is Judd Apatow’s Net worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $150 million.
Judd Apatow Freaks and Geeks
He is the producer of the American teen comedy-drama television series Freaks and Geeks. The series aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season. Time, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and Rolling Stone have all included the series in their lists of the greatest television shows of all time. It launched the careers of James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, Samm Levine, and Linda Cardellini, among other young actors.
Judd Apatow Awards
In 1993, Apatow was one of the Emmy-winning writers for his work on The Ben Stiller Show. He has earned five Emmy nominations as well as a Critics’ Choice Television Award. At the 16th annual Hollywood Film Awards in 2012, he won the Hollywood Comedy Award. Girls, a British television program, won a BAFTA for Best Foreign Program in 2013. In 2015, his film Trainwreck earned two Golden Globe awards, marking the first time he has won two Golden Globes for a single film.
May It Last: A Portrait Of The Avett Brothers, which he directed, won the SXSW Audience Award in 2018. At the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, he co-directed May It Last: a Portrait of the Avett Brothers with documentarian Michael Bonfiglio. For his contributions to comedy, he received the Generation Award at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal in 2016. In 2017, he and his production partner Barry Mendel received the Producers Guild Film Awards’ Darryl F. Zanuck Award. In 2018, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Judd Apatow LGBTQ
Former Apatow associate Mike White was “disenchanted” by Apatow’s later films, “objecting to the portrayal of women and gay men in Apatow’s latest movies,” according to New York magazine in 2007, saying of Knocked Up: “At some point, it starts feeling like a comedy of the bullies, rather than the bullied.” Characters in Apatow’s comedies often use derogatory terms toward the LGBTQ culture, such as “tranny” and “faggot.”
Judd Apatow Movies Ranked
Judd Apatow’s growing oeuvre includes several comedies with Will Ferrell. Anchorman, Anchorman 2, Step Brothers and Talladega Nights are off the list. Begin Again is too tonally and thematically removed from the Apatows’ Cinematic Universe. Here is the list of his top ten ranked films;
♦ 2009 – Year One
♦ 1995 – Heavyweights
♦ 1996 – Celtic Pride
♦ 2008 – Drillbit Taylor
♦ 2005 – Fun With Dick and Jane
♦ 2010 – Get Him to the Greek
♦ 2012 – This Is 40
♦ 2008 – You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
♦ 2012 – Wanderlust
♦ 2017 – May It Last
