Jeff Garlin

About

Jeffrey Garlin (born June 5, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Jeff Greene on the HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Murray Goldberg, patriarch of the eponymous family in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs. Garlin also played Marvin on Mad About You and Mort Meyers on Arrested Development for Fox and Netflix.
Garlin has also appeared as Captain B. McCrea in WALL-E, Buttercup in Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4, Perry Babcock in ParaNorman, and Mr. Britt in Safety Not Guaranteed, among other films.

Garlin was born on June 5, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois, to Gene and Carole (née Crafton) Garlin. He grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois, where his father owned a plumbing supply business called Bilko and his mother was active in community theater. Garlin has a younger brother, Michael. He is Jewish and attended Hebrew school.
Garlin said that he wanted to be a comedian since he was eight after seeing Jimmy Durante perform in Chicago. Garlin attended Melzer Elementary School in Morton Grove. He enjoyed playing sports at school, but had to stop after being diagnosed with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, a heart ailment.
When Garlin was in sixth grade…