Jerry Seinfeld

Born: 29 April 1954 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Best Known As: Star of TV's Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld was already a success as a stand-up comedian when he co-created the hit TV sitcom Seinfeld in 1990. In the show Seinfeld played himself, a single comic in New York coping with the trivialities of modern life. (The show co-starred Michael Richards as Kramer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine, and Jason Alexander as George Costanza.) The show became a huge hit for NBC, but Seinfeld called it quits in 1998 while he was still earning some of TV's best ratings and reviews. In the late 1990s Seinfeld dated teenager Shoshanna Lonstein, making him a popular topic for tabloid newspapers. In 1999 he married Jessica Sklar and the next year the couple had a daughter, Sascha.