Jason Alexander Net Worth

Jason Alexander's Quotes

• I'm not really bald. I shave my head to keep in character with George.
• The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
• I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
• I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
• I still don't know much about directing a movie.

Interesting Facts about Jason Alexander

1. 1989: Appeared on Broadway in Jerome Robbins's musical "Broadway", for which he won a Tony award.
2. The son of Ruth and Alex Greenspan and half-brother of Karen Van Horn and Michael Greenspan, Jason reportedly took the professional surname of "Alexander" in part because of his father's first name. However, he has also said it helped him in auditions as call-backs were done in alphabetical order and he would know before other actors if he was still in the running for a particular part or role.
3. Attended Boston University but left a year early because he was able to find acting work in New York City during the summer before his senior year. Received an honorary degree years later.
4. Alexander's wife, Daena E. Title, is a cousin of filmmaker Stacy Title, who is married to actor Jonathan Penner. The couple has two sons, Gabe Greenspan and Noah Greenspan.
5. Fall 2002: Set to teach acting on the faculty of the University of Southern California as the first-ever George Burns Distinguished Visiting Professor in Performance.
6. Started losing his hair at the age of 16.
7. One year for his birthday, his friends took him to a diner. They told him to close his eyes. When he opened them, William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, was in front of him. Captain Kirk was Jason's childhood hero.
8. While filming Seinfeld (1989), was always fitted with a suit one size too small, to make his character look "uncool"
9. Says he took on the role of Duckman because Duckman was "the anti-George Costanza".
10. Being a great fan of Star Trek (1966), he was finally given the opportunity to play a "Trek" role himself in 1999: he played the character "Kurros" in the Star Trek: Voyager (1995) episode, Star Trek: Voyager: Think Tank (1999). That same year, he was the host for the "Star Trek Viewers' Choice" VHS, notably for his Capt. Kirk impersonations.
11. 2005: Celebrity Judge for UCLA Spring Sing.
12. The only of the four main actors (Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus) from Seinfeld (1989) not to win an Emmy for their work on the show
13. 4/30/06: Debuted as a "professional magician" at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles. His act is based on studying and predicting behavioral patterns with his subjects.
14. Beat out Danny DeVito and Nathan Lane for the role of "George Costanza" on Seinfeld (1989).
15. Won the 1989 Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Musical for "Jerome Robbin's Broadway".
16. The only major cast member of Seinfeld (1989) to also direct an episode of the series.
17. A 1977 graduate of Livingston High School (in Livingston, New Jersey), one of his classmates was Julia Montgomery, with whom he appeared in numerous high school productions. Alexander's high school performing credits include such musicals as "Guys and Dolls", "The Odd Couple", and "Oliver". Alexander also played flute and percussion in the Livingston Lancer's Marching Band.
18. Won $250,000 on a celebrity episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002) after he correctly identified Gerald Ford as the President who said "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over". However, his question for $500,000 asked how Harry Crosby got his nickname of "Bing". He did not know, and walked away with the $250,000 that was divided amongst three charities.
19. He lent his voice to the Family Guy (1999) album "Live in Las Vegas" during the number 'All Cartoons Are F**kin' Dicks'.
20. In Seinfeld: How It Began (2004), a documentary for the Seinfeld (1989) DVD, Alexander said that he had no idea that 'George Costanza (character)' was based on Larry David until he said of a script to David, "this could never happen to anyone, and even if it did, no human being would react like this" to which David replied, "What do you mean? This happened to me once, and this is exactly how I reacted!".