Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944, in San Francisco, California, age 81) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsleyon The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globefor his portrayal of Pfefferman.
As a guest star on Yo Gabba Gabba!, he portrayed the Miniature King in Season 4 episode and series finale "Quest".
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- He is the son of Eileen (née Salzberg) and Bernard Tambor.
- He grew up in a Conservative Jewish family with roots of Hungary and Ukraine.
- He was previously married to Katie Mitchell in 1991, but they divorced in 2000.
- He has been married to Kasia Ostlun since 2001, and they have five children: a son Gabriel Kasper (born c. 2006), daughter Eve Julia (born c. 2007), twin sons Hugo Bernard and Eli Nicholas (born October 2009). Tambor also has an older daughter named Molly from an earlier relationship.
- In 2007, he was reported to be a scientologist but disclosed in 2017 that he left scientology abruptly "when he was pressured to leave his second wife".