Jonah Hill - TV Tropes

Jonah Hill (born December 20, 1983 as Jonah Hill Feldstein in Los Angeles, California) is a two-time Academy Award nominated American actor in film and television. He has also been involved as a writer on films, including co-creating the Short Running Fox animated series Allen Gregory, and is part of Judd Apatow's Frat Pack.

He is the older brother of actress Beanie Feldstein.

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Filmography:

• I ♡ Huckabees (2004) as Bret
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) as eBay Customer
• Click (2006) as 17-year-old Ben Newman
• Accepted (2007) as Sherman Schrader
• Knocked Up (2007) as Jonah
• Evan Almighty (2007) as Gene Tannenbaum
• Superbad (2007) as Seth
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008) as Tommy (voice)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) as Matthew Van Der Wyk
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) as Brundon (uncredited)
• Funny People (2009) as Leo Koenig
• The Invention of Lying (2009) as Frank
• Cyrus (2010) as Cyrus
• How to Train Your Dragon as Snotlout Jorgenson (voice)
  • How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
  • Gift of the Night Fury (2011)
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
  • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
• Get Him to the Greek (2010) as Aaron Green
• Megamind (2010) as Hal Stewart/Titan/Tighten
• Moneyball (2011) as Peter Brand
• Allen Gregory (2011) as Allen Gregory
• The Sitter (2011) as Noah Griffith
• 21 Jump Street (2012) as Morton Schmidt
  • 22 Jump Street (2014)
• The Watch (2012) as Franklin
• Django Unchained (2012) as Bag Head No. 2
• This Is the End (2013) as himself
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Donnie Azoff
• The LEGO Movie (2014) as Green Lantern
  • The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
  • The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
• Hail, Caesar! (2016) as Joseph Silverman
• Sausage Party (2016) as Carl
• War Dogs (2016) as Efraim Diveroli
• Maniac (2018) as Owen Milgrim
• mid90s (director, writer and producer)
• Don't Look Up (2021) as Jason Orlean
• You People (2023) as Ezra Cohen (also co-writer)

This actor provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Jonah's most famous roles tend to depict him acting like a creep around people who are too polite to tell him to knock it off. Knocked Up, Superbad, Megamind and The Wolf of Wall Street have him openly lusting after women, while Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The LEGO Movie and This is the End show him displaying a homoerotic fixation towards men.
• Bromantic Comedy: In Superbad, the 21 Jump Street franchise, Get Him to the Greek, and Knocked Up.
• Jerkass: In Superbad and This Is the End (the latter of the Sugary Malice variety).
• Large Ham: Does this in his comedy roles save for Get Him to the Greek (and even then, he goes on a drug-fuelled rampage).
• Manchild: Famous for playing these as seen in Cyrus, Superbad and the 21 Jump Street franchise.
• Only Sane Man: Sometimes seen especially in Get Him to the Greek.
• Running Gag: Being told that he looks like Seth Rogen from Funny People to 22 Jump Street.
• Tom Hanks Syndrome: After playing in awkward comedy roles, he was nominated for a Academy Award in Moneyball and turned in a series of well-received dramatic roles.
• Typecasting: Usually cast in comedy films as a depraved foil against a somewhat more likable character who just happens to be his friend.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: All of his comedy films before Get Him to the Greek except This Is the End.
• What Could Have Been: Was in final negotiations to be in Matt Reeves’s The Batman (2022) movie as a villain ^note . His team and Warner Bros. couldn’t come to a deal and mutually agreed to move on.