Jonah Hill Bio (Wiki)

October 2024 · 4 minute read

Who is Jonah Hill?

Jonah Hill is 2X Oscar-nominated actor, director, and producer.

Hill is renowned as Schmidt of 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street.

Last, in 2020, he appeared in the movie, The Beach Bum as Lewis.

Next, he will make his appearance in the movie, Don’t Look Up as Jason Orlean.

Currently, the movie is being filmed.

Jonah Hill- Birth Age, Parents, Ethnicity, Siblings, Education

Jonah Hill was born on 20th December 1983 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

His birth name is Jonah Hill Feldstein.

He is of Jewish-Germanic ethnicity.

Jonah Hill is the second child of his parents; Sharon Lyn-Chalkin and Richard Feldstein.

His father, Richard is an accountant of the rock band, Guns N’ Roses whereas his mother, Sharon is a costume designer.

His elder brother, Lt. Jordan Feldstein was a music manager.

He passed away from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 40.

His younger sister, Beanie Feldstein is an actress.

Along with his siblings, he grew up in a well-off family in the Cheviot Hills of Los Angeles.

Moving to his academics, he attended He completed his High School education from the Crossroads Schools.

Later, Jonah Hill joined The New School ad the University of Colorado Boulder.

However, he dropped off from those universities.

Jonah Hill- Professional Career

Acting Career

Since his college days, he was extremely active as a performer.

He has performed the plays including Black and White in East Village of New York City.

His career as an actor started with the movie, I Heart Huckabees as Bret.

Following the movie, he made his appearance in the series including NYPD Blue, Campus Ladies, and Human Giant in some character roles.

In 2007, he featured the movie, Superbad.

In the comic movie, he appeared as Seth, the leading character of the movie.

Through the movie, he made his identity as a comic actor.

Since then, Jonah Hill has never looked back and became the cast of various sitcom movies.

Besides comic character, he is also popular for his biographical movies like Walk Hard: The Dewet Cox Story, Moneyball, The Wolf of Wall Street.

For performance as Peter Brand in the movie, Moneyball, he received his first Oscar nomination.

Following that he received his second Oscar nomination for the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street as Donnie Azoff.

Production, Direction & Writing Career

Besides being an actor, he is a talented director, producer, and writer.

As a writer and producer, Jonah Hill was associated with the movies like 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street which had been recognized as one of his career’s best.

In 2011, he made his directing debut with the short video, Sara Bareilles: Gonna Get Over You.

Following that, he directed the videos like Danny Brown: Ain’t It Funny and Travis Scott: Wake Up.

How much is the net worth of Jonah Hill?

As of 2023, he has an estimated net worth of $50 million.

His net worth includes the house that he bought in 2019 in Santa Monica, California worth $6.8 million.

As an actor, he earns in the range of $21k to $215k.

Besides that, Jonah Hill also earns through his career as a producer, director, and writer.

Body Measurements: Height & Weight

He has blue eyes with brunette hair.

He stands at a height of 5 feet and 7 inches and has a decent weight.

However, his weight journey is inspiring in itself.

Jonah Hill gained weight up to 118 kg as the heaviest.

He started his weight loss journey in 2011.

However, he had to gain weight once more like the character, Efraim Diveroli in the movie, War Dogs.

At the time, Jonah Hill put up to 40 pounds.

Currently, he is in one of the fittest versions of himself.

Controversy & Rumors

Back in 2014, he came into the headlines when he apologized for using some homophobic slur.

The actor had been being followed by a photographer who had made comments on his outfits.

Within a rage, the actor lashed him yelling some homophobic slurs.

One hour later, Jonah Hill posted a video apologizing for his action.

Is Jonah Hill active on social media?

Jonah Hill has 3.1 million followers on Instagram, 4.4m on Twitter, and 4.3m on Facebook.

On Twitter, he is only following The New York Times. 

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