Hank Azaria Biography

Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American actor.

Azaria was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Greece in New York, New York. After several years of living together, Azaria married actress Helen Hunt on July 18, 1999. The couple divorced on December 18, 2000.

Azaria is perhaps best known for his voice work on the animated television show The Simpsons.
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He has provided the voices for over 160 characters on the show including those of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Cletus and Professor Frink. He also provided the voice of Eddie Brock in the Spider-Man animated series of the mid-1990s.

He has also appeared in movies such as Mystery Men, America's Sweethearts and Heat and on television starring as psychiatrist Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, in Huff which is broadcast on Showtime in the US and FX in the UK. Prior to that he appeared in Herman's Head as Jay Nichols and in Friends where he played the recurring character David, one of Phoebe’s boyfriends. He also had a recurring role on Mad About You as Nat, the dogwalker.

Azaria has also shown his talents on stage, in 2003 he appeared in London's West End as Bernard in Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing in Friends) and Minnie Driver also starred.

He also appeared as Sir Lancelot, the French Taunter, and other characters in the musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail entitled Spamalot until June of 2005, which opened in Chicago, Illinois in December 2004 and has since moved to Broadway. He currently plans to return in fall of 2005 to take on these roles again after leaving to go back to work on The Simpsons and Huff. In 2005, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in Spamalot.

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