Jordan Peele (Media) – Overview, Biography

Name:Jordan Peele
Occupation: Media
Gender:Male
Height:178 cm (5′ 11”)
Birth Day: February 21,
1979
Age: 41
Birth Place: New York City,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Pisces

Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele was born on February 21, 1979 in New York City, United States (41 years old). Jordan Peele is a Media, zodiac sign: Pisces. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: $50 Million.

Brief Info

Former cast member of Mad TV who went on to star on his own sketch comedy show, Key & Peele, alongside Keegan-Michael Key, which premiered in 2012 on Comedy Central.

Trivia

He was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 for the parody song Sad Fitty Cent.

Net Worth 2020

$50 Million
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Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
178 cm (5′ 11”) 75 kg Black Black N/A N/A

Before Fame

He was a regular performer at Boom Chicago alongside Nicole Parker. He hosted MTV’s Comedy Weekend in 2002, one year before he signed on as a cast member on MADtv’s ninth season.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1979

Jordan Haworth Peele was born in New York City on February 21, 1979. His mother, Lucinda Williams, is white and his father, Hayward Peele, is black. He was raised by his single mother on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He attended the Computer School in Manhattan, graduated from The Calhoun School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and went on to Sarah Lawrence College. After two years, Peele dropped out to form a comedy duo with college roommate and future Key & Peele writer Rebecca Drysdale.

2002

Peele regularly performed at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam and The Second City in Chicago. He and Nicole Parker were well known for their musical duets at Boom Chicago. He portrayed a popular character called “Danish Supermodel Ute” during his time at Boom Chicago and hosted MTV’s Comedy Weekend in 2002.

2003

In 2003, Peele joined the cast of Mad TV for its ninth season. Around the time Keegan-Michael Key joined the cast as a featured performer, it was assumed that Key would be chosen over Peele. The two of them ultimately were cast together after showing great comedic chemistry. Peele performed celebrity impersonations, which included favorites Caroll Spinney (as the voice of Big Bird from Sesame Street), Ja Rule, James Brown, Flavor Flav, Justin Guarini, Montel Williams, Morgan Freeman, Timbaland, and Forest Whitaker. Peele was absent from the first four episodes of his second season on Mad TV. He made a cameo in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s video “White & Nerdy” with Mad TV co-star Keegan-Michael Key.

2009

Peele was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for his song “Sad Fitty Cent”, a music video parody about 50 Cent lamenting over his rivalry with Kanye West. The lyrics were, according to the music video, written by Peele, and he was involved in arranging its music. In 2009 he appeared in Little Fockers.

2010

In 2010, Peele co-starred in the Fox comedy pilot The Station, and appeared with a recurring role in the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. He had a supporting role in the David Wain-directed comedy Wanderlust, which was released in 2012.

2013

Peele began dating Chelsea Peretti in 2013. They became engaged in November 2015, and Peretti announced in April 2016 that she and Peele had eloped. They have a son named Beaumont (born July 1, 2017).

2014

In 2014, Peele played an FBI agent in the first season of the FX anthology series Fargo, based on the 1996 film of the same name.

2015

On November 3, 2015, it was reported that Henry Selick is developing Wendell and Wild, a new stop-motion feature with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key based on an original story by Selick. In March 2018, the film was picked up by Netflix. There have been developments of several films based on Peele’s sketch comedy series Key & Peele. In March 2015, it was announced that Key will reprise the role of Mr. Garvey in a feature-length film Substitute Teacher with Peele portraying a rival teacher. In March 2017 in a Reddit AMA, Peele expressed interest in developing a film around his Key & Peele character Wendell Sanders based on the music video “The Power of Wings”. The film, titled Wendell Meets Middle-Earth, would follow Wendell’s existence in the fantasy world that he likes to see his life in.

2016

In 2016, Peele starred in and produced, with Key, the first feature film in which the two both had leading roles, Keanu (they had previously both appeared in Wanderlust). The film received generally favorable reviews from critics.

2017

In February 2017, Peele’s first film as director, Get Out, was released to critical acclaim, eventually scoring a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film received particular praise for Peele’s screenplay and direction, as well as the performance of its lead, Daniel Kaluuya, and was chosen by the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute, and Time magazine as one of the top 10 films of the year. The Atlantic called the film “a masterpiece.”

In February 2017, Peele curated the Brooklyn Academy of Music film series “The Art of the Social Thriller”, comprising 12 films that inspired the making of Get Out, including the horror films Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Living Dead, The Shining, Candyman, The People Under the Stairs, Scream, The Silence of the Lambs, Funny Games, Misery, the thrillers Rear Window and The ‘Burbs, and the 1967 racial comedy-drama Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

2018

In early 2018 Peele announced his intention to retire from acting, stating in an interview with CBS “Acting is just nowhere near as fun for me as directing”. In 2018, Peele co-created the TBS comedy series The Last O.G., starring Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish. Also in 2018, Peele co-produced the Spike Lee film, BlacKkKlansman which was released to critical acclaim and was a box office success. The film received six nominations at the 91st Academy Awards including the Best Picture nomination for Peele.

On June 28, 2018, it was announced that YouTube Premium would be releasing Weird City, co-created by Peele and Charlie Sanders. The show was released on February 13, 2019 to critical acclaim. On April 5, 2018, it was announced that Amazon Video had given a series order to the docuseries Lorena consisting of four episodes. The series was set to be directed by Joshua Rofé who would also executive produce alongside Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Steven J. Berger, Jenna Santoianni, and Tom Lesinski. Production companies involved with the series include Monkeypaw Productions, Sonar Entertainment, and Number 19. It ultimately premiered on February 15, 2019.

In September 2018, it was announced Peele was in talks to produce a remake of Candyman, through his Monkeypaw Productions, of which Candyman star Tony Todd stated in a 2018 interview with Nightmare on Film Street, “I’d rather have him do it, someone with intelligence, who’s going to be thoughtful and dig into the whole racial makeup of who Candyman is and why he existed in the first place.” In November 2018, it was confirmed that Peele will produce the film with Universal and MGM and will partner with Win Rosenfeld to co-produce the film, while Nia DaCosta will sign on as director. The new Candyman will serve as a “spiritual sequel”, taking place back in the new gentrified Cabrini Green, where the old housing projects development once stood in Chicago. The theatrical release is set for August 27, 2021.

2019

Peele’s second film as director was Us, a horror-thriller film which he also wrote and produced, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. After having its world premiere on March 8, the film was released in the United States on March 22, 2019 by Universal Pictures, Monkeypaw Productions, and QC Entertainment. Peele developed and is narrator for the science fiction web television series The Twilight Zone, the third revival of the original 1959-64 anthology series that aired on CBS, for CBS All Access. The show premiered on April 1, 2019, with Peele, Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez as executive producers. In February 2020, Peele produced a 10 episode series about hunting down Nazis called Hunters. Peele produced the HBO series Lovecraft Country written by Underground co-creator Misha Green.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Jordan Peele is 42 years, 7 months and 25 days old. Jordan Peele will celebrate 43rd birthday on a Monday 21st of February 2022.

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Facts

  1. Jordan Peele’s college friend whose name is Rebecca Drysdale was his partner in the duo.
  2. Jordan Peele has a mixed ethnicity. Jordan Peele’s father is an African American and his mother is a white woman.
  3. Did he play in the projects of ‘Boom Chicago’ alone or with a partner?
    Jordan and Nicole Parker ware constant partners in different music numbers.
  4. What films is he planning to release?
    In 2018 there will be the new film directed and produced by Jordan. It is planned to be called ‘Black Klansman’.
  5. How has Jordan showed himself as a director?
    In 2017 Jordan directed a film named ‘Get Out’. It was warmly met by the public and got rather a positive feedback from the critics.
  6. Is Jordan known for his music works?
    Jordan Peele has released a lot of music compositions, one of which is rather famous. It is a parody which is named ‘Sad Fitty Cent’. For this creation he was nominated with the prestigious award ‘Emmy’.

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