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Judd Apatow (; born December 6, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and comedian. He is best known for his work in comedy films, and is the founder of Apatow Productions and also developed the cult television series ''Freaks and Geeks'', ''Undeclared'' and ''Girls.'' Apatow's work has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award (for ''The Ben Stiller Show''), a Hollywood Comedy Award, and an AFI Award for ''Bridesmaids''. His films have also been nominated for Grammy Awards, PGA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Academy Awards. In October 2012, ''Vanity Fair'' announced that Apatow would be guest-editing their comedy Issue, the first person to ever do so. Apatow also guest-wrote an episode for ''The Simpsons'' in 1990 for the very first season that finally aired on January 11, 2015, as a season 26 episode. In 2007, he was ranked No. 1 on ''Entertainment Weekly'' == Early life and education == Judd Apatow was born in Flushing, Queens, and raised in Syosset, New York. His mother, Tamara "Tami" (née Shad), worked primarily managing record labels founded by her father, music producer Bob Shad.〔〔Stated in interview on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', 2009.〕 His father, Maury Apatow, was a real estate developer. His family was Jewish, "but nonreligious." Apatow has an older brother, Robert, and a younger sister, Mia.〔 His maternal grandmother, Molly, co-starred in his film ''This Is 40'' (playing the grandmother of Paul Rudd's character). When Apatow was twelve years old, his parents divorced. Robert went to live with his maternal grandparents, and Mia went to live with her mother. As a child, Apatow lived mainly with his father, and visited his mother on weekends. Apatow’s mother spent a summer working at a comedy club, which is where Judd was first exposed to live stand-up comedy. Apatow was obsessed with comedy as a child; his childhood heroes were Steve Martin, Bill Cosby and the Marx Brothers. Apatow got his comic start washing dishes at the Long Island East Side Comedy Club, and while attending Syosset High School, he hosted a program called ''Comedy Club'' on the school's 10-watt radio station WKWZ which he created as a way to meet and learn from the comedians he looked up to. He cold-called comedians he admired during this time, managing to interview Steve Allen, Howard Stern, Harold Ramis and John Candy, along with emerging comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Wright and Garry Shandling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judd Apatow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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