Jewish Actors/Actresses
Which Jewish actor is known for having his wife appear in his films?
Who is Adam Sandler?
Bronx-born director behind Sophie's Choice
Who was Alan J. Pakula
She is like, so fetch!
Who is Gretchin Weiners
On Friends, Ross dresses up as this animal to teach Ben about Hanukkah
What is the Holiday Armadillo
The famous line “I’ll have what she’s having” from When Harry Met Sally is said at this NYC deli
What is Katz' Delicatessen
This legendary actress was repeatedly told she needed a nosejob to succeed in Hollywood
Who is Barbera Streissand?
This Jewish creator is behind Curb Your Enthusiasm
Who is Larry David
Fran Drescher played this loud, fashionable nanny from Queens on The Nanny
Who is Fran Fine
This teen drama invented the hybrid holiday “Chrismukkah”
Which character in How I Met Your Mother, a sitcom set in NYC, was Jewish?
Who is Ted Moseby
This actress balanced coursework at Harvard while filming Star Wars
Who is Natalie Portman
This iconinc Jewish director is the godfather of both Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow
Who is Steven Spielberg
This animated movie, An American Tail, centers on a Jewish immigrant -- depicted as a mouse -- coming to America.
Who is Feival Mouskowitz
This coming-of-age movie centers on a Bat Mitzvah (starring Adam Sandler and his family)
What is You Are So Not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah
This NYC-based sitcom made Jewish family humor mainstream starring married couple Jamie Stemple Buchman (Helen Hunt) and Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) in the 1990s
What is Mad About You
This actress served in the IDF and won Miss Israel in 2024
Who is Gal Gadot
This Netflix series centers on a young woman leaving an Orthodox Jewish community
What is Unorthodox
Who was Eli Cohen
This Adam Sandler holiday song lists Jewish celebrities
What is 'The Hannukah Song'
This classic romantic movie set in NYC focuses on family, culture, and love within a Jewish community on the Lower East Side
What is Crossing Delancey
Star of The Social Network and Now You See Me just released "A Real Pain," a movie he directed, wrote and stars as one of two estranged Jewish cousins on a Holocaust tour through Poland to honor their deceased grandmother
Who is Jesse Eisenberg
This Jewish composer wrote Annie Get Your Gun and was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by President Ford
Who was Irving Berlin
This character loves Die Hard, Halloween Heists, and obviously Brooklyn!
Who is Jake Peralta
This animated musical movie about Moses is often watched around Passover
What is the Prince of Egypt
This comedy show was founded in 1975 by a Jewish New Yorker, and is now filmed in Midtown Manhattan
What is Saturday Night Live