Jason Stuart (born Stuart Ted Greif; January 13, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.

Life and career

Born in

The Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

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, Stuart was raised in

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, California. He is openly

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

, and is the chair of the

Screen Actors Guild The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to m ...

National LGBT Actors Committee. Stuart was nominated for a Gay International Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in the independent film ''

Coffee Date ''Coffee Date'' is a 2006 independent film written and directed by Stewart Wade and released by BrownBag Productions. Originally a short film by Wade, it was expanded into a feature and played at various film festivals. The film stars Jonathan ...

''. He produced and starred in his own independent film, ''10 Attitudes''. Stuart released a stand-up comedy CD, "Jason Stuart: Gay Comedy Without a Dress", "Jason Stuart: I'm The Daddy and I Have Candy and a DVD of his comedy special, ''Jason Stuart: Making It to the Middle" for Here! Media Stuart was raised in a Jewish family. His father was born in Poland. Best known for his supporting role in the film ''The Birth of a Nation'', Amazon comedy series ''Smothered'', Hit indie film ''Tangerine'', ''Vegas Vacation'', ''Kindergarten Cop'', ''Lost & Found'', ''Coffee Date''. He has appeared in over 150 film & TV shows such as ''Goliath'', ''Love'', ''Sleep Hollow'', ''Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia'', ''The Closer'', ''House'', ''Everybody Hates Chris'', ''My Wife & Kids'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''Murder, She Wrote''.

Filmography

References

External links

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Jason Stuart on Facebook"ActorsE Chat Show"
with host Alyson Sullivan on Actors Entertainment

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