Joel Grey
Sign in to saveAlso known as Joel David Katz, Joel Kaye, Joel Katz
American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Book of Joel
- My Secret Garden
- 1.3
- Master of Ceremonies
- Billboard Papers
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1997-02
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 124,380
- Total plays
- 873,286
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Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Tony Award winning American stage and screen actor. Grey originated the role of the Master of Ceremonies in the Broadway musical Cabaret in 1966 for which he won the Tony Award. Additional Broadway credits include Come Blow Your Horn (1961), Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1962), Half a Sixpence (1965), Goodtime Charley (1975), The Grand Tour (1979), Chicago (1996), and Wicked (2003). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/J
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,358x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,745x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,980x
- Optical Coherence Tomography
· 1991 · cited 10,994x
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Key facts
- Born
- Joel David Katz , ( 1932-04-11 ) April 11, 1932 (age 94) , Cleveland, Ohio , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor dancer singer photographer theatre director
- Years active
- 1951–present
- Spouse
- Jo Wilder ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1982 )
- Children
- 2, including Jennifer
- Father
- Mickey Katz
- Relatives
- Ronald A. Katz (brother)
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.joelgreyphotographer.com
- Image
- Joel Grey 2014.jpg
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- Commons category
- Joel Grey
- date of birth
- 1932-04-11
- Commons gallery
- Joel Grey
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- name in native language
- Joel Grey
- birth name
- Joel David Katz
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Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, photographer, and theatre director. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in the musical Cabaret on Broadway and in Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation. He has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award for his performances in the Cabaret stage musical and film. He was presented a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award at the 76th Tony Awards in 2023.
Grey's Tony-nominated roles include for the musical George M! (1968), Goodtime Charley (1975), and The Grand Tour (1979). After portraying Amos Hart in the Broadway revival of Chicago (1996), he originated the role of the Wizard of Oz in the musical Wicked (2003) and played Moonface Martin in the 2011 revival of Anything Goes. He co-directed the 2011 revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart with George C. Wolfe, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play at the 65th Tony Awards.