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Brad Garrett: Biography

Bradley H. Gerstenfeld was born on April 14, 1960 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
Brad attended Hale Jr. High School in Woodland Hills, California and graduated from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California in 1978. He attended UCLA for about 6 weeks, before dropping out to pursue his comedy career.
Brad has starred in various films but is probably best known for his role in the show "Everybody Loves Raymond." As
Robert Barone.

Brad has been nominated for nine SAG awards. He was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. He won the award in 2003. He was also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 2004. All these nominations were for Everybody Loves Raymond. In 2003 he was also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Televison Miniseries or Movie for Gleason.(edit)
Brad and wife Jill Diven finalized their divorce in November, 2007.(edit)
Brads favourite comedian is Gallagher.(edit)
Brad says that is favourite actor and actress his Danny Most and Esther Rolle. (edit)
Brad's father was a hearing aid specialist working in geriatrics and his mother was a housewife. (edit)
Brad studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.(edit)
Brad is going to be the voice Charlee in the upcoming movie "Christmas Is Here Again". He is also going to voice Auguste Gusteau in the other upcoming film "Ratatouille".(edit)
Brad made his first television appearance on the 1978 show "The Comedy Shop."(edit)
Brad played Mamma aiuto boss in the 2005 film "Porco Rosso".(edit)
Brad has headlined at Bally's Park Place and co-headlined with The Temptations at Trump Plaza. (edit)
Brad recently split with his wife, Jill Diven
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Brad has sometimes struggled for acting work due to his large size(edit)
Brad turned down a spin-off show with his character Robert Barone from "Everybody Loves Raymond."(edit)
He has two children, Maxwell Bradley Garrett born 14 October 1998, Daughter Hope born January 2000(edit)
Brad was a waiter at TGI,Fridays in the early 1980s.(edit)
Brad graduated from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California in 1978.(edit)
Brad attended Hale Jr. High School in Woodland Hills, California.(edit)
Brad became the first $100,000 grand champion winner in the comedy category of "Star Search" in 1984.(edit)
Brad spent six weeks at U.C.L.A before going into stand-up comedy full time.(edit)
His favorite food is corn dogs(edit)
Brad played Lou Montana in the 1999 film "Clubland" .(edit)
Brad played Wally in the 2005 film "The Moguls".(edit)
Brad played Jackie Gleason in the 2002 film "Martin and Lewis". (edit)
Brad played Fred Bedderhead in the 2002 movie The Country Bears.(edit)
Brad played Henry in the 2000 movie "Facade".(edit)
Brad played Oren Starks in the 1998 film Postal Worker.(edit)
Brad played Vice Principal Murney in the 2005 film The Pacifier.(edit)
Brad played Jeckyll in the 1997 film Suicide Kings.(edit)
Brad played the Security Guard in the 1997 movie George B.(edit)
Brad played Sheldon Lutz in the 1996 film A Delicatessen Story.(edit)
Brad played Joe Bedloe in the 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown.(edit)
Brad Garrett is 6' 8 1/2" (edit)
In 1998, Garrett proposed to his then girlfriend Jill Diven on the set of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and they were married on May 18, 1999.(edit)
Brad occassionally does voice overs for cartoons. He's been on the animated series 2 Stupid Dogs, A Bug's Life, and Finding Nemo. He also provided the voice of Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation Rock 'N' Wrestling cartoons of the 1980s. He also did the voice of Uto in the film Tarzan II. Brad also voiced the character Bertie Furbelow in the film Jetsons: The Movie, Trypticon in the tv series "Transformers", the character Luca from the 2004 film "Garfield" And Lobo On Superman: The Animated Series And Justice League. (edit)
Brad was one of the youngest comedians to ever perfrom on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.(edit)
In 1984, he became the first $100,000 grand champion winner in the comedy category of the TV show Star Search.(edit)
Brad won the 2005 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on Everybody Loves Raymond. He also won in 2002 and 2003.(edit)

Brad Garrett: (about "Everybody Loves Raymond") The writers have just written really great scripts that revolve around believable, dysfunctional family dynamics. I think it helps if you're identifiable, you know? I mean, that's what people tell me, more than anything else, on the street, that I remind them, usually, of their aunt.....which kind of scares me. I mean, is that right?(edit)
Brad: (after the death of Peter Boyle, who played his on-screen father in �Everybody Loves Raymond�) I think of Peter and I smile. I laugh and I think about what I learned from him as an actor and a human being. He was a compassionate man and a great dad.(edit)
Brad: (asked if he was tempted to do a spin-off of �Raymond�, instead of ��Till Death�) You say to yourself, �How could I spin off the number one comedy on television?� But it was definitely something being considered. But as an actor, you want to do something new, so this was very exciting, too. I was open to both ideas but, for the spin-off to happen, there were some creative choices that really had to come to pass for it to make sense, and we couldn�t get the writers from Raymond. And while we kept going back and forth on those kind of details, this script was sent to me and that was that.(edit)
Brad: (on going from �Everybody Loves Raymond� to his own sitcom) I wasn�t looking to run back into something. The pilot wasn�t written for me but I read it and loved the writing, and I knew that if I wanted to go back into television, I�d want to do a character that was very far removed from Robert on Raymond. It also just reminded me of a lot of the writing on Raymond - it was believable stuff we were all familiar with.(edit)
Brad: I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is...We're all giddy and sexual in the beginning, and in the end we end up eating Fiddle Faddle in bed and watching someone do their toes.(edit)
Brad: Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.(edit)
Brad: We get into this huge tussle with him. He's screaming at the top of his lungs and we end up gagging him at some point.(edit)
Brad: I'd like to dedicate this to Britney and our baby.(edit)
Brad: They wanted someone like a Danny DeVito character a guy who was kind of a pit bull. That wasn't me, but they graciously agreed to let me audition anyway.(edit)