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It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television. He went on to find two more show creators, Mitch Hurwitz of Arrested Development and Jill Soloway of Transparent, who shared a love of actors and taught him a lot about acting along the way. Are You Anybody is Tambor's chance to discuss his creative process and immense accomplishments from a life lived onscreen. Drawing from his formative childhood years, in which he describes himself as a fat Hungarian-Jewish kid with a lisp and a depressive father to how he drew inspiration from his life to create these characters, Tambor's memoir is funny, insightful, and uplifting, touching on comedy and the enduring chutzpah required to make it through life.
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Jeffrey Tambor is an accomplished actor known for his unforgettable roles on The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development, and his Emmy award-winning performance on Transparent. Tambor's had memorable roles in films such as And Justice for All, Meet Joe Black, There's Something About Mary, Cityslickers, and Pollack. He has also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards and was awarded a Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Comedy Series. He lives in New York.
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