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Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. He received an
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nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's '' Broadcast News'' and was widely praised for his performance as a ruthless Jewish mobster in the 2011 action drama film ''
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''. Brooks has also played in ''
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'' (1976), '' Private Benjamin'' (1980), '' Unfaithfully Yours'' (1984), and '' My First Mister'' (2001). He has written, directed, and starred in several comedy films, such as '' Modern Romance'' (1981), ''
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'' (1985), and ''
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'' (1991). He is also the author of '' 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America'' (2011). His voice acting credits include Marlin in '' Finding Nemo'' (2003) and ''
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'' (2016), Tiberius in ''
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'' (2016), and several one-time characters in ''
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'', including Hank Scorpio in "
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" (1996) and Russ Cargill in ''
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'' (2007).


Early life

Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein on July 22, 1947 into a
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show business family in
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,
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, to
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(née Goodman), an actress, and
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, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as "Parkyakarkus". He is the youngest of three sons. His older brothers are the late comedic actor
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(1942–2019), better known as a character he created named "
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", who had a recurring role in '' Curb Your Enthusiasm''; and Clifford Einstein (b. 1939), a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates. His older half-brother was
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(1926–2007), a writer for such television programs as '' Playhouse 90'' and ''
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''. His grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia. He grew up among show business families in southern California, attending
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with Richard Dreyfuss and
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.


Career


Early career

Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon University in
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, but dropped out after one year to focus on his comedy career. By the age of 19, he had changed his professional name to Albert Brooks, joking that "the real
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changed his name to sound more intelligent". He quickly became a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Brooks led a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBC's ''
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''. His on-stage persona, that of an
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,
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, nervous comic, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, influenced other '70s
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comedians, including
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,
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, and
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. After two successful comedy albums, ''Comedy Minus One'' (1973) and the
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–nominated ''A Star Is Bought'' (1975), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker. He had already made his first short film, ''The Famous Comedians School'', a satiric short and an early example of the
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subgenre that was aired in 1972 on the
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show ''
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''. In 1975, Brooks directed six short films for the first season of
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's ''
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''. In 1976, he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in
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's landmark ''
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''; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his dialogue. Brooks had landed the role after moving to Los Angeles to enter the film business. Brooks directed his first feature film, ''
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'', in 1979. The film, in which Brooks (playing a version of himself) films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an
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and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of
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's ''
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'' documentary. It has also been viewed as foretelling the future emergence of
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. Brooks also made a cameo appearance in the film '' Private Benjamin'' (1980), starring
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.


1981–1999

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote (with long-time collaborator
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), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character. These include 1981's '' Modern Romance'', where Brooks played a film editor desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend (
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). The film received a limited release and ultimately grossed under $3 million domestically. It was well received by critics, with one reviewer commenting that the film was "not Brooks at his best, but still amusing". His best-received film, ''
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'' (1985), featured Brooks and
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as a couple who leave their
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lifestyle and drop out of society to live in a motor home as they have always dreamed of doing, meeting disappointment. Brooks' ''
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'' (1991) placed his lead character in the
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, put on trial to justify his human fears and determine his cosmic fate. Critics responded to the off-beat premise and the chemistry between Brooks and
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, as his post-death love interest. His later efforts did not find large audiences, but still retained Brooks' touch as a filmmaker. He garnered positive reviews for ''
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'' (1996), which starred Brooks as a middle-aged writer moving back home to resolve tensions between himself and his mother ( Debbie Reynolds). 1999's '' The Muse'' featured Brooks as a Hollywood screenwriter who has "lost his edge", using the services of an authentic
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(
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) for inspiration. In an interview with Brooks with regards to ''The Muse'', Gavin Smith wrote, "Brooks's distinctive film making style is remarkably discreet and unemphatic; he has a light, deft touch, with a classical precision and economy, shooting and cutting his scenes in smooth, seamless successions of medium shots, with clean, high-key lighting." Brooks has appeared as a guest voice on ''
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'' seven times during its run (always under the name ''A. Brooks''). He is described as the best guest star in the show's history by
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, particularly for his role as supervillain Hank Scorpio in the episode "
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". Brooks also acted in other writers' and directors' films during the 1980s and 1990s. He had a cameo in the opening scene of '' Twilight Zone: The Movie'', playing a driver whose passenger (
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) has a shocking secret. In
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's hit '' Broadcast News'' (1987), Albert Brooks was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing an insecure, supremely ethical network TV reporter, who offers the rhetorical question, "Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?" He also won positive notices for his role in 1998's ''
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'', playing an untrustworthy banker and ex-convict.


2000–present

Brooks received positive reviews for his portrayal of a dying retail store owner who befriends a disillusioned teenager (played by
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) in '' My First Mister'' (2001). Brooks continued his voiceover work in
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's '' Finding Nemo'' (2003), as the voice of Marlin, one of the film's protagonists. In 2005, his film ''
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'' was dropped by Sony Pictures due to their desire to change the title.
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purchased the film and gave it a limited release in January 2006; the film received mixed reviews and a low box office gross. As with ''
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'', Brooks plays a fictionalized "Albert Brooks", a filmmaker ostensibly commissioned by the U.S. government to see what makes the Muslim people laugh, and sending him on a tour of India and Pakistan. In 2006 he appeared in the documentary film ''
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'' as David Howard from ''Lost in America''. The documentary included many other well-known people. In 2007, he continued his long-term collaboration with ''The Simpsons'' by voicing Russ Cargill, the central antagonist of ''
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''. He has played Lenny Botwin,
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's estranged father-in-law, on Showtime's television series '' Weeds''.
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published his first novel, '' 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America'', on May 10, 2011. In 2011, Brooks co-starred as the vicious gangster Bernie Rose, the main antagonist in the film ''
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'', alongside Ryan Gosling and
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. His performance received much critical praise and positive reviews, with several critics proclaiming Brooks' performance as one of the film's best aspects. After receiving awards and nominations from several film festivals and critic groups, but not an Academy Award nomination, Brooks responded humorously on
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, "And to the Academy: ‘You don't like me. You really don't like me’." In 2016, Brooks voiced Tiberius, a curmudgeonly red-tailed hawk, in ''
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'', and reprised the role of Marlin from ''Finding Nemo'' in the 2016 sequel ''
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''.


Personal life

In 1997, Brooks married artist Kimberly Shlain, daughter of surgeon and writer Leonard Shlain. They have two children, Jacob and Claire.


Works


Films


Comedy albums


Literature


Filmography


Film


Television


Audiobooks


Awards and nominations


References


External links

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Albert Brooks: Comedy And Dystopia
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