杰瑞·宋飞

杰瑞·宋飞（英语：Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld，1954年4月29日—），是美国好莱坞知名喜剧演员、剧作家、电视与电影制片人。他的幽默常应用于社会观察，代表作品是电视情景喜剧《宋飞传》。

早年生活

杰瑞生于布鲁克林，他的父亲卡尔曼·宋飞（Kálmán Seinfeld）拥有匈牙利犹太裔血统，他的母亲贝蒂（娘家姓霍斯尼；Hosni）及其外祖父母是叙利亚犹太裔移民，1917年抵达美国时报称为土耳其人（当时叙利亚为奥斯曼帝国的一部分）。杰瑞有一姐姐卡罗琳（Carolyn）。他的外曾祖母加雷斯·达扬（Garez Dayan）是显赫的达扬拉比家族（Dayan rabbinic family）成员，其父系血源可以追溯至中世纪美索不达米亚的犹太社区领袖（Exilarch），甚至是更久远圣经时代的大卫王。他16岁时曾经到以色列的基布兹当义工，中学毕业后考进了纽约州立大学奥斯威戈分校，第二年转校至皇后学院，并且在那里以通信和戏剧学位毕业。

Jerome Allen Seinfeld ( SYNE-feld; born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker, and television producer specializing in observational comedy. Seinfeld gained stardom playing a fictionalized version of himself in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and wrote with Larry David. Seinfeld earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy. The show is one of the most acclaimed and popular sitcoms of all time. He has since created and produced the reality series The Marriage Ref (2010–2011), and created and hosted the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–2019), the latter of which earned him three Webby Awards. He also co-produced, co-wrote, and starred in the DreamWorks animated film Bee Movie (2007) and the Netflix comedy Unfrosted (2024).

He has released four standup specials, his first being Stand-Up Confidential (1987), followed by I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998), Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017) and 23 Hours to Kill (2020).

Seinfeld has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Actor Awards as well as nominations for four Grammy Awards. In 2004, Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest stand-up comedian of all time. In 2017, Rolling Stone named him the 7th-greatest stand-up comedian of all time.

Seinfeld has also written three books starting with SeinLanguage (1993), followed by the children's book Halloween (2002), and the comedic compilation book Is This Anything? (2020). He practices transcendental meditation. He is married to author and philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, with whom he has three children. His relationship in the 1990s with Shoshanna Lonstein, which began while Seinfeld was 39 years old and Lonstein was a 17-year-old high school student, has been the subject of renewed scrutiny in the 2020s.

Seinfeld has made controversial statements in public and in performances in support of Israel in its occupation of Palestine, from comparing the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan, stating that Palestine "does not exist", and, during a performance and in response to protesters, stating that he is a racist, and supports the genocide perpetuated against the Palestinians, without subsequently apologizing for these statements.

Early life and education

Jerome Allen Seinfeld was born on April 29, 1954, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. His father, Kalmen Seinfeld, a sign painter, was from Brooklyn and collected jokes that he heard while serving in World War II. His mother, Betty (born Hosni) and her parents, Selim and Salha Hosni, were Syrian Jews from Aleppo. Their nationality was stated as Turkish when they immigrated in 1917, as Syria was under the Ottoman Empire. Seinfeld has an older sister, Carolyn. Salha's mother, Garez Dayan, Seinfeld's great-grandmother, was a member of the Dayan rabbinic family, who claim ancestry back to the Medieval Exilarchs, and from the Exilarchs back to the Biblical King David. Seinfeld's second cousin is alternative metal musician and actor Evan Seinfeld.

Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa, on Long Island, in Nassau County and attended Massapequa High School. At 16, he spent time volunteering in Kibbutz Sa'ar in Israel. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego, and transferred after his second year to Queens College of the City University of New York in Flushing, from which he graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and theater.