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Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29,  1954 in
Brooklyn, New York) is an
United States|American actor, writer and comedian
from Massapequa, New York, a Long Island, New York
Town. Seinfeld attended the Birch Lane Elementary
School and Massapequa High School.

Straight from graduation at Queens College, New
York|Queens College, Seinfeld tried out at an open
mic night at Brooklyn, New York|New York's Catch A
Rising Star in 1976. Soon after, he was appearing
in a Rodney Dangerfield Home Box Office|HBO
special. 

Seinfeld had a small recurring role as "Frankie"
on the Benson (television)|Benson Situation
comedy|sitcom in 1979, but was abruptly fired from
the show.

A few years later, in May of 1981, Seinfeld made a
highly successful appearance on Johnny Carson's
The Tonight Show|Tonight Show. Seinfeld then
became a regular on similar shows, including Late
Night with David Letterman and the Merv Griffin
Show.  

For a time in his life Seinfeld was a
Scientologist and he still speaks highly of his
time as a Scientologist. In an interview he did
reported in Playboy Magazine in October 1993 he
said, "I learned a lot and I had a good experience
with it."
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==Seinfeld==
Seinfeld created The Seinfeld Chronicles with
Larry David in 1989 for NBC. The show was later
renamed simply Seinfeld and became one of the most
popular and successful Situation comedy|sitcoms on
American television. The show left the air in
1998. As of 2005, the show was still receiving
heavy airplay in Television
syndication|syndication. The show also starred
Saturday Night Live veteran Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
as well as Michael Richards and Jason Alexander. 
On the show, Seinfeld played Jerry Seinfeld
(character)|himself.

==Post Seinfeld==

In 1998, Seinfeld went on tour and recorded a
comedy special entitled "I'm Telling You for the
Last Time". An album of the same name was also
released that year, and it featured samples of his
stand-up performance.

After his sitcom went off the air, Seinfeld
returned to stand-up comedy. The process of
developing new material was chronicled in a 2002
documentary, Comedian (movie)|Comedian, directed
by Christian Charles. Jerry Seinfeld has written a
few books, mostly archives of past routines.

Jerry also appeared in two
'webisodes'http://www.unpluggedstudio.com/
promoting American Express Credit Cards in which
he appeared together with an animated rendering of
Superman, voiced by Patrick Warburton (who had
portrayed David Puddy on Seinfeld). The webisodes
were aired in 2004 and directed by famous director
Barry Levinson.

==Family==
His most famous pre-marriage dalliance was with
Shoshanna Lonstein, who was still in secondary
school when they first met. He began dating
Jessica Sklar after they met at the Reebok Sports
Club in 1998, even though she had just married
Eric Nederlander, a scion of the Broadway
theater-owning family. At one point, Nederlander
planned to lawsuit|sue Seinfeld for "alienation of
affection" for contributing to the demise of his
marriage. Seinfeld and Sklar married on Christmas
Day, 1999. They have 2 children, Sascha, and
Julian Cal, whose birth was announced on Live!
with Regis and Kelly. In 2005, it was announced
that Seinfeld is expecting a third child.

==Compensation==
Seinfeld received US dollar|US$267 million during
1998 according to Forbes magazine
(http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passLis
tId=53&passYear=1999&passListType=Person&resultsSt
art=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=-num
berfield2%2C%2Bstringfield1&resultsSortCategoryNam
e=earnings+%28%24mil%29).  Even though his only
sitcom ended six years ago, 'Seinfeld' still earns
more, through syndication, than most current
shows.