Henry Albert Azaria (/əˈzɛəriə/ə-ZAIR-ee-ə; born April 25, 1964), known professionally as Hank Azaria, is an American actor, comedian, and producer. He is known for voicing many characters in the long-running animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, most notably Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Snake Jailbird, Professor Frink, and formerly Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, Carl Carlson, among others. Azaria joined the show with little voice acting experience, but became a regular in its second season. For his work on the show, he has won four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Alongside his continued voice acting on The Simpsons, Azaria became more widely known through his live-action supporting appearances in films such as Quiz Show (1994), Heat, The Birdcage (1996) (for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award) and Godzilla (1998). He has also appeared in numerous films including Mystery Men (1999), America's Sweethearts (2001), Shattered Glass (2003), Along Came Polly (2004), Run Fatboy Run (2007), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). Further voice roles include Anastasia (1997), for he won an Annie Award.
His live-action television work includes recurring roles on the sitcoms Mad About You and Friends, as well as dramatic roles in the TV films Tuesdays With Morrie (1999) as writer Mitch Albom and Uprising (2001) as Jewish resistance leader Mordechai Anielewicz. For the former, Azaria received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He starred in the title roles in the Showtime drama series Huff (2004–2006) and the IFC sitcom Brockmire (2017–2020). His recurring role on the drama Ray Donovan earned him a sixth Primetime Emmy Award in 2016.
Azaria made his Broadway debut as Lancelot in Spamalot, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He returned to Broadway in 2007, playing David Sarnoff in The Farnsworth Invention.
Henry Albert Azaria (/əˈzɛəriə/ ə-ZAIR-ee-ə; born April 25, 1964), known professionally as HankAzaria, is an American actor, comedian, and producer....
Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish" and "What Animated Women Want", HankAzaria voice-matching the latter in "When Flanders Failed") works as a waiter...
of a conservative senator (Gene Hackman) and his wife (Dianne Wiest). HankAzaria and Christine Baranski appear in supporting roles. The film marked the...
from Harriton High School. Wright has been married to actor/director HankAzaria since 2007 and gave birth to a son in 2009. "The Philadelphia Inquirer...
known for his catchphrase, "Thank you, come again". He was voiced by HankAzaria and first appeared in the episode "The Telltale Head". He was named in...
character from the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by HankAzaria and first appeared in the series premiere episode "Simpsons Roasting...
character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by HankAzaria and first appeared in the second-season episode "Three Men and a Comic...
show, Bell would fire him. In his bit, Kondabolu criticizes voice actor HankAzaria (who is of Sephardic Jewish descent), calling him "a white guy doing...
Meissel Dutch: Paul van Gorcum, Tygo Gernandt English: Paul Winchell, HankAzaria, Tom Zehnder, Andre Sogliuzzo, Rainn Wilson, and Lenny Mark Irons French:...
of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, HankAzaria and Harry Shearer. Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Chris...
Animation and released by Columbia Pictures. Live-action roles include HankAzaria, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jayma Mays, while the voice-over roles include...
character from the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by HankAzaria. He is the chief of police in the show's setting of Springfield, and...
starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams in his final animated feature, HankAzaria, Alecia Moore (P!nk), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Common, Hugo...
stocked with "Duff". Barry Huffman, better known as Duffman and voiced by HankAzaria, is a recurring character who, according to Chris Turner, "embodies all...
Day: The Simpsons". Slant Magazine. Retrieved January 16, 2022. Azaria, Hank [@HankAzaria] (January 22, 2013). "Many have asked about my favorite #Simpsons...
members: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, HankAzaria, and Harry Shearer. Castellaneta voices Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson...
directed by Mark Mullin and Richard Shepard, and stars Woody Harrelson, HankAzaria, Ely Pouget, and Sean Penn. An aspiring painter named Dustin Pennett...
loosely based on Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, starring Ben Stiller, HankAzaria, William H. Macy, Greg Kinnear, Claire Forlani, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens...
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