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Brad Garrett
American television/voice actor and stand-up comedian, Brad Garrett was born on April 14, 1960 as Bradley H. Gerstenfeld in Woodland Hills, California. He is the son of Barbara, 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.
He is 6 feet 9 inches tall and a Jew. 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.
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.
On August 13, 2007, Garrett got into a heated argument with some photographers who 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.
Career- Claim to Fame
Stand-up Comedy
The improv clubs in Los Angeles including, The Improv in Hollywood and The Ice House in Pasadena, served as the stepping-stones for Garrett. 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.
Performing on TV
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 in 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.
Voice Acting
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.
Awards
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. 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.
In the Pipeline?
In the fall of 2008, Garrett will be the star and executive producer of Dating Brad Garrett, an online reality show. It is set to debut on YouTube, Crackle, Hulu, and other platforms.
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