Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen Jerry Seinfeld is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for portraying a semifictional version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld , which he cocreated and cowrote with Larry David. For its final two seasons, they were also coexecutive producers.

Seinfeld was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Kalmen Seinfeld , was born to a Jewish immigrant from Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. His mother, Betty , is of Syrian Jewish descent her parents Selim and Salha Hosni were from Aleppo. Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa, New York, and attended Massapequa High School on Long Island. At the age of 16, he spent time volunteering in Kibbutz Saar in Israel.

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