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Jason Alexander
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American actor, comedian, director and television host
Jason Alexander is an American actor, comedian, director, and television host known for his work in entertainment across multiple roles. He is best known for playing George Costanza on the popular sitcom "Seinfeld," a role that made him a recognizable figure in American television comedy.
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Person · Open Library
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- 14
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- Killadelphia Vol. 6
- Killadelphia #35
- Remnants
- Killadelphia #29
- Killadelphia #28
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Acting · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, writer, comedian, television director and producer, and singer. He is best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld, appearing in the sitcom from 1989 to 1998. He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway…
Known for
- Jimmy — Louis B. Mayer2026
- Mating Season — Alan (voice)2026
- The Electric State — Ted / Wingman2025
- Stealing Pulp Fiction — Dr. Mendelbaum2025
- The Gettysburg Address — Noah Brooks (voice)2025
- Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words — Self2025
- The Bad Guys: The Series — Mysterious Figure (voice)2025
- LEGO Marvel Avengers: Strange Tails — Magneto (voice)2025
- The Bad Guys: The Series — D.B. Cougar (voice)2025
- Rock, Paper, Scissors — Jonathan Fartjoke (voice)2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1959
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Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an American actor, comedian and singer, best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld. Born and sometimes credited as Jason Greenspan, the actor known as one of Seinfeld's idiot friends during the '90s has an original soundtrack discography that includes one of composer Stephen Sondheim's biggest flops, the early '80s show Merrily We Roll Along. This performer changed his <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jason+Alexande
Recent publications · Crossref
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- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,083x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,543x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,601x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,973x
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Encyclopedic overview
Jason Alexander (born Jay Scott Greenspan; September 23, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career, he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Television.
Alexander made his Broadway debut originating the role of Joe in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along in 1981. He remained active on Broadway acting in the musicals The Rink in 1984 and the Neil Simon play Broadway Bound in 1986. He then starred in Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. His subsequent theatre roles include the touring production of The Producers from 2003 to 2004 and replacing Larry David in the original 2015 Broadway production of Fish in the Dark. He has also directed several plays such as the original 2023 Broadway production of The Cottage.
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