Brad Garrett

At 64 years old, Brad Garrett has this physical status:

Brad H. Gerstenfeld (born April 14, 1960), also known as Brad Garrett, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional poker player.

He has appeared on television and film. Garrett first became well-known as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s.

Garrett began appearing in television and film in minor and guest roles after gaining fame in the late 1980s.

Robert Barone, CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, was his first big role.

The series debuted on September 13, 1996 and lasted for nine seasons.

In 2002, he gave an Emmy-nominated and critically lauded role as Jackie Gleason in the television film Gleason. Garrett's film credits include Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), A Bug's Life (1998), Finding Nemo (2003), Night at the Museum (2006), Tangled (2010), Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Smith. Planes, Evil (2011), Planes (2013), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and Christopher Robin (2018).

Garrett appeared on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death' from 2006 to 2010.

Since 2018, he has appeared on ABC's Single Parents. Garrett has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as three others.

He is still popular in stand-up comedy, as well as a professional poker player.

Garrett is known for his imposing height of 6' 8.5" (2.04 m) and his distinctive deep voice.

Early life

Bradley Henry Garrett was born in Oxnard, California, to Barbara and Alvin "Al" Gerstenfeld. He is Jewish. Jeff and Paul are Garrett's two older brothers. He attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and graduated from El Camino Real High School, both in Los Angeles' Woodland Hills neighborhood. Garrett attended UCLA for fewer than two months before deciding to pursue his comedy interests.

Personal life

Garrett proposed to Jill Diven, Garrett's then-girlfriend, on the set of Everybody Loves Raymond in 1998; the two children, a son, and a daughter were born together on May 18, 1999. Garrett and Diven divorced in 2005, and Diven filed for divorce in July 2006. In November 2007, the divorce was finalized.

He began dating actress IsaBeall Quella, who he encountered at a Vose art gallery in Boston in 2008. The couple married on November 11, 2021, when they were engaged in December 2015 and announced their engagement in December 2015. Garrett won a fight against alcoholism right away, but later admitted that he was a "high functioning alcoholic."

Garrett shot a TMZ photographer's camera in 2007, which the photographer claims to have struck him in the chest. Garrett's Los Angeles District Attorney refused to press assault charges against him because the DA believed Garrett was provoked.

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Career

Garrett was known before comedy for being on the front page of ELO's eighth studio album Discover. He began doing stand-up comedy at various comedy clubs in Los Angeles, including The Improv in Hollywood and The Ice House in Pasadena, in the early 1980s. He became the first $100,000 grand champion champion in the comedy segment of the television show Star Search in 1984. This made him his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at age 23, making him one of the youngest comedians ever to appear on the program. Garrett's appearance with Carson drew national notice, and soon enough he'd be seen as the opening act for such headliners as Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli. Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr., the Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, and Julio Iglesias opened in Las Vegas for Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Robinson, Jr., Julio Iglesias.

Garrett began appearing on television after achieving a certain amount of success with stand-up comedy. He was the voice of Hulk Hogan (in a tone similar to Rodney Dangerfield's) for the cartoon series Hulk Hogan's Rock'n Wrestling from 1985 to 1986. During November sweeps, Funny Women Week was on display. In 1987, he appeared on the game show Super Password for a week. He appeared on Hollywood Squares, including a moment when he impersonated Bill Cosby during a question about Jell-o. In 1988, he appeared in the short-lived summer comedy First Impressions (CBS, 1988), in which he was a divorced father who does a living doing impressions, in a one-time position as a bank loan officer on Roseanne (ABC) and The Pursuit of Happiness (NBC, 1995–96), in which he was the hero's gay best friend. Garrett had been involved in Transformers as a minor actor, voicing the Decepticon base Trypticon in season three and Suicide Kings' ill-fated thug. In 1998, he and Romano appeared together in the role of Ray Romano's brother Robert Barone on the long-running family-oriented comedy "Everybody Loves Raymond," in which Robert is jealous of his brother's spending so much time with Doug Heffernan (the main character played by Kevin James). Garrett has also appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as a hitman who tries to depose Will Smith's character.

Garrett has been featured on several document series, including Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, 2 Stupid Dogs, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Project Geeker, Biker Mice from Mars, Steven Spielberg Presents: Toonsylvania, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Asterix, and the Vikings, The Animated Series.

He received five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2002, 2003, and 2005.

Garrett appeared on the revival of Match Game in 1990 as a semi-regular panelist. Garrett played a rogue auto mechanic who robs Jerry Seinfeld's car on the May 2, 1996 episode of "The Bottle Deposit."

He was also nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Gleason miniseries or Movie. He received the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, alongside his Raymond co-stars. He received his fifth season of Celebrity Poker Showdown, as well as the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World Series of Poker. When Garrett's nine-year career ended in 2005, he was planning to do a spin-off with his character Robert Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond, but he canceled in October 2005 due to CBS' inaction, which resulted in the departure of a number of Raymond's writers and taking other jobs.

In 2005, Garrett appeared on Broadway as Murray the Cop, a sequel to Neil Simon's The Odd Couple with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Lane was understudied in his role as Oscar Madison and was substituted for him in January 2006, despite Lane's illness. He appeared in The Pacifier opposite Vin Diesel in the same year. In 2006, Fox network revealed that they would order 'Til Death,' starring Garrett in the lead role. The plot revolves around a long married couple whose new neighbors, a pair of feisty newlyweds, who are also newlyweds. In the series, Joely Fisher plays Garrett's wife. On week 11, he appeared onstage on American Idol season six (2007), including Ryan Seacrest, "And the next person off American Idol is—Brad, you're out," he said.

Garrett appeared on, and was the executive producer for, an online reality television show called Dating Brad Garrett in the fall of 2008. Garrett hosted a celebrity roast of Cheech & Chong, which was broadcast on TBS in 2008.

Garrett failed on the second day of the tournament in 2009 in 2009 and then failed in the main event of the World Series of Poker. Garrett has appeared in commercials for 7-Up, where he portrays a more cheerful, upbeat version of himself as a result of the soda.

Brad Garrett's Comedy Club opened in Las Vegas, California, in June 2010. He was one of the narrators during Epcot's Candlelight Processional in December 2010.

On TLC in June 2011, I Kid with Brad Garrett, a candid kids show, premiered. Garrett's club at the Tropicana closed on December 12, 2011. He founded a new MGM Grand club with the same name across the street, and it's still in operation as of April 2016.

Garrett appeared in Chug in the film Planes for the fourth time in a movie starring John Ratzenberger. Garrett was a recurring character in The Crazy Ones in the fall of 2013. He was confirmed to appear in the sci-fi action comedy film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows in May 2016.

In a Christmas commercial for Apple's iPhone 7, Garrett portrayed Frankenstein's monster in November 2016. The ad has over seven million viewers as of 2017. Garrett appeared in the live action film Christopher Robin, based on Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, and in a cameo in the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet, he played Eeyore. In the 1995 video game Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, he had previously played the character.

In Jimmy Johns' advertisements, he portrays a character named Tony Bolognavich as of 2021.

When asked if he'll do a revival of Everybody Loves Raymond, he said no.

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