Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett, May 2007
Born	Brad H. Gerstenfeld April 14, 1960 (1960-04-14) (age 48) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Years active	1984-present
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series 2002, 2003 and 2005 Everybody Loves Raymond

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Biography

Early life

Garrett was born Brad H. Gerstenfeld^[1] in Woodland Hills, California, the son of Barbara (née Colton), a homemaker, and Al Gerstenfeld, a hearing aid salesman.^[2] He has two older brothers, Jeff and Paul. He attended Hale Junior High School in Woodland Hills, California and graduated from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, where he was the head yell leader, in 1978. He attended UCLA for less than two months before dropping out to pursue his comedy career. Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... Née redirects here. ... Behind the ear aid For the song, see Flood (They Might Be Giants album). ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... El Camino Real High School El Camino Real High School (also known locally as ECR and by some more recently as ELCO) is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the...

Career

Garrett started out at various improv clubs in Los Angeles, including The Improv in Hollywood and The Ice House in Pasadena. In 1984, he became the first $100,000 grand champion winner in the comedy category of the TV show Star Search. This led to his first appearance, at age 23, on "The Tonight Show" starring Johnny Carson, making him one of the youngest comedians ever to perform on the show. His appearance with Carson brought Garrett a lot of national attention, and soon he was appearing as an opening act for such headliners as Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli. He also opened in Las Vegas for Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr., the Beach Boys and Julio Iglesias. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Star Search is a television show from 1983 to 1995 hosted by Ed McMahon, which also appeared as a remake in 2003-2004. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other persons named John Carson, see John Carson (disambiguation). ... For the author-illustrator, see Diana Ross (author). ... Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ... The Las Vegas metropolitan area, includes the Las Vegas Valley a 600 square mile (1600 km²) basin, and surrounding areas, that are part of Clark County in southern Nevada. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin on September 16, 1956) is an American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of illusions and storytelling. ... William Smokey Robinson, Jr. ... This article is about the entertainer. ... The Beach Boys, originally the Beech Boys, a small team of four brothers from the south of Poland, emigrated to America in the early 1950s in search of a fortune to be made in the Arizonian logging industry. When it soon became evident they had been the victims of... This page is about the singer Julio Iglesias. ...

After achieving a strong measure of success with stand-up comedy, Garrett decided to change gears and try his luck with performing on TV. He was the voice of wrestling legend Hulk Hogan for the short-lived cartoon series Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling, He was featured on Family Feud during Ray Combs's tenure during a Funny Men vs. Funny Women week during November sweeps. He also appeared for a week on the game show Super Password in 1987. He then appeared in the short-lived summer comedy "First Impressions" (CBS, 1988), in which he was a divorced father who makes a living doing impressions, in a one-time spot as a bank loan officer on Roseanne (NBC), and "The Pursuit of Happiness" (NBC, 1995-96), in which he was the hero's gay best friend. Though prior to these roles, Garrett had also had a minor part on Transformers, voicing the Decepticon base Trypticon in season three and as an ill-fated thug in Suicide Kings. He soon won the role of Ray Romano's brother Robert Barone on the long-running sophisticated but family-oriented comedy hit Everybody Loves Raymond. Garrett has also made an appearance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and played a hitman who tried to kill Will Smith. Terrence Gene Bollea (born on August 11, 1953) is an American actor and semi-retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan. ... Huck Hogans Rock n Wrestling Video Hulk Hogans Rock N Wrestling was a Saturday morning cartoon that aired on CBS from 1985 to 1987. ... This article is about the American game show. ... Raymond Neil Combs, Jr. ... In the United States the sweeps period determines local advertising rates. ... Although Password can be played without any equipment, commercial versions of the game have also been successful. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, writer, talk-show host, and comedian. ... This article is about the television network. ... This article is about the television network. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The Transformers (G1) 1984-1987, U.S. This page is a partner page to Transformers Universes, listing the various television series that the Transformer toyline has spawned since its creation in 1984. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Trypticon (Dinozaurer in Japan) is a fictional character in the Transformers toyline. ... Suicide Kings was a 1997 American movie, starring Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, and Henry Thomas. ... Raymond Romano (born December 21, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated, American actor and comedian best known for his starring role on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. ... Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2005. ... The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an Emmy, BAFTA, and RTS-award winning popular American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. ... “W. S.” redirects here. ...

Garrett's distinctive deep voice has landed him notable work as a voice actor, such as on the animated series the Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, 2 Stupid Dogs, Project Geeker, A Bug's Life, Asterix and the Vikings, Justice League Unlimited, Finding Nemo, and as Auguste Gusteau in Pixar's "Ratatouille". His role on Everybody Loves Raymond won him five Emmy nominations, and the 2002, 2003 and 2005 Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Mighty Ducks was a half-hour Disney animated series aired on ABC and The Disney Afternoon in the fall of 1996. ... 2 Stupid Dogs is an American animated television series created by Donovan Cook and produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons that originally ran from September 11, 1993 to January 21, 1995 on TBS Superstation. ... Project G.e. ... A Bugs Life is a computer animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 25, 1998, in Australia on January 12, 1999 and in the United Kingdom on February 5, 1999. ... Asterix and the Vikings (working international English title for Astérix et les Vikings) is an animated full length feature, produced in France and Denmark, and directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Møller. ... Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was the name of an American animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Finding Nemo is a 2003 Academy Award-winning computer-animated film. ... For other uses, see Ratatouille (disambiguation). ... Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2005. ... An Emmy Award. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Emmy Award. ...

In 1990, Garrett appeared as a semi-regular panelist on the revival of Match Game. On the May 2, 1996 episode of the popular sitcom Seinfeld, called "The Bottle Deposit", Garrett played a deranged auto mechanic obsessed with Jerry's car. The Match Game was an American television game show, most often hosted by Gene Rayburn. ... is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Seinfeld (disambiguation). ...

In 2003, he was also nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Gleason. With his Raymond castmates, he won the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He won the fifth season championship of Celebrity Poker Showdown, and played in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker. Garrett was hoping to do a spinoff with his character Robert Barone from "Everybody Loves Raymond" when the show ended its nine-year run on TV in 2005, but he withdrew in October 2005 due to inaction from CBS that led to a number of the writers from "Raymond" leaving and taking other jobs. Herbert John Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, and musician. ... Look up Sag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Celebrity Poker Showdown was a celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo. ... The WSOP logo The World Series of Poker is the largest set of poker tournaments in the world. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ...

In 2005, Garrett appeared on Broadway playing Murray the Cop in the revival of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. He understudied Lane in the role of Oscar Madison, and substituted for him in January, 2006, during Mr. Lane's illness. In 2006, FOX network announced they would pick up a new sitcom called 'Til Death starring Brad Garrett in the lead role. The plot revolves around a long married couple whose new next door neighbors are a pair of feisty newlyweds. Joely Fisher plays Garrett's wife in the series. He also appeared onstage on American Idol Season 6 during judging on week 11, to which Ryan Seacrest said "And the next person off American Idol is-Brad you're out". For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... Neil Simon (1966) Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. ... Walter Matthau and Art Carney in the 1965 Broadway production The Odd Couple was a hit 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spinoffs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. ... Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning actor of the stage and screen. ... Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Buellers Day Off and the adult Simba in Disneys The Lion King. ... This article is about the animal. ... For other uses, see Til death. ... Joely Fisher (born October 29, 1967) is an American actress best known for her work on television, but also on stage and in films. ... For the most recent American Idol season, see American Idol (season 7). ... Ryan John Seacrest is an American television/radio host. ...

Personal life

Garrett is Jewish.^[3] In 1998, he proposed to his then girlfriend Jill Diven on the set of Everybody Loves Raymond, and they were married on May 18, 1999. Their first child Maxwell Bradley Garrett was born on October 14, 1998; their second child daughter Hope Violet Garrett was born in January 2000. Garrett and Diven separated in 2005, and Diven filed for divorce in July 2006.^[4] For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: January 1- Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. ...

Although he portrays a very low voice in Everybody Loves Raymond, he has a higher-pitched natural voice, as seen in the show Til' Death and during Everybody Loves Raymond outtakes and bloopers, as well as during the early seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond.

He is 6 feet 9 inches tall.

On August 13, 2007, Garrett was in an altercation with some photographers that were heckling him regarding earlier comments he made about blacks in Malibu and calling him racist. Garrett struck a TMZ photographer's camera, which the photographer claimed hit him in the face. The photographer asked Garrett why he struck his video camera when it was another person that was making the comments.^[5][6] is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Garrett was the grand marshal for the Auto Club 500 on February 24, 2008. The Auto Club 500 is a NASCAR Nextel Cup stock car race held at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. ... is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Filmography

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References

External links

• Brad Garrett at the Internet Movie Database
• Brad Garrett at the Voice Chasers Database

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