
Hank Azaria
Biography
Henry Albert "Hank" Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American actor and producer. He is known for voicing many characters in the long-running animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, including Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Superintendent Chalmers, Comic Book Guy, Snake Jailbird, Professor Frink, Kirk Van Houten, Duffman, and formerly Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, Carl Carlson, among others. Azaria joined the show with little voice acting experience, but became a regular in its second season. For his work on the show, he has won four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Alongside his continued voice acting on The Simpsons, Azaria became more widely known through his live-action supporting appearances in films such as Quiz Show (1994), Heat, The Birdcage (1996) (for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award) and Godzilla (1998). He has also appeared in numerous films including Mystery Men (1999), America's Sweethearts (2001), Shattered Glass (2003), Along Came Polly (2004), Run Fatboy Run (2007), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). Further voice roles include Anastasia (1997), for which he won an Annie Award.
His live-action television work includes recurring roles on the sitcoms Mad About You and Friends, as well as dramatic roles in the TV films Tuesdays With Morrie (1999) as writer Mitch Albom and Uprising (2001) as Jewish resistance leader Mordechai Anielewicz. For the former, Azaria received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He starred in the title roles in the Showtime drama series Huff (2004–2006) and the IFC sitcom Brockmire (2017–2020). His recurring role on the drama Ray Donovan earned him a sixth Primetime Emmy Award in 2016.
Azaria made his Broadway debut as Lancelot in Spamalot, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He returned to Broadway in 2007, playing David Sarnoff in The Farnsworth Invention.
Acting (77 movies)

The Simpsons Movie
2007

Pretty Woman
1990

Godzilla
1998

Heat
1995

The Birdcage
1996

Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita)
2008

Uprising
2001

Along Came Polly
2004

Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson
2017

Fail Safe
2000

Quiz Show
1994

America's Sweethearts
2001

Run Fatboy Run
2007

Cradle Will Rock
1999

Great Expectations
1998

Grosse Pointe Blank
1997

Anastasia
1997

Celebrity
1998

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004

Now and Then
1995

Tuesdays with Morrie
1999

Mystery Men
1999

The Simpsons in Plusaversary
2021

Shattered Glass
2003

Chicago 10
2008

The Smurfs
2011

Hollywood Dog
1990

Love & Other Drugs
2010

Mystery, Alaska
1999

The Aristocrats
2005

Eulogy
2004

Homegrown
1998

Year One
2009

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009

Maggie Simpson in "Rogue Not Quite One"
2023

FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012

Bartok the Magnificent
1999

Hop
2011

Chicken Little
1998

Bark!
2002

Cool Blue
1990

Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story
2010

Lovelace
2013

The Smurfs 2
2013

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
1988

The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
2011

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005

Out of the Blue
2022

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
2003

Happy Feet Two
2011

Timms Valley
2013

The Wizard of Lies
2017

Hail to the Breadsticks!
2023

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
2008

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016

The Simpsons: Christmas
2003

The Simpsons: Christmas 2
2004

Planet of the Couches
2016

I Know That Voice
2014

Tears of Joy: 2015 New York Mets
2015

The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV
1999

The Grand
2007

Monty Python Conquers America
2008

Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005

CyberWorld
2000

Backwash
2010

The Simpsons Funday Football
2024

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
2024

The Electric State
2025

The Simpsons: America's First Family
2000

The Wright Way
2025

The Simpsons | Balenciaga
2021

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
2025

Springfield's Most Wanted
1995

Monkey Mischief
2009
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