Hotmail
Jay Leno
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  252 RatingsRate this person:
Actor Born: April 28, 1950 in New Rochelle, NY Biography:A popular comedian during the 1970s, "Jay Leno" is best known as the man who replaced "Johnny Carson" at the helm of The Tonight Show in 1992. Leno was born James Douglas Muir Leno to parents of Italian and Scottish heritage (Leno is particularly fond of discussing the Italian part) in New Rochelle, NY, but was raised in Andover, MA. During the year in which he was establishing his standup career, Leno was performing 300 nights throughout North America. He made his television debut on the "Merv Griffin Show" and his acting debut in "Silver Bears" (1977). That year he appeared in the cast of the short-lived Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. Show, a musical variety summer replacement series. By the early '80s, Leno had left behind any notion of becoming an actor because his comedy career was in high gear. His subsequent film appearances have been as himself or as a parody of himself ("The Flintstones",... Full Biography
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
