Hank Azaria is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian. He is the son of Ruth Altcheck and Albert Azaria. His grandparents on both sides were Sephardic Thessalonian Jews.

Azaria’s father ran several dress-manufacturing businesses while his mother raised him and his two older sisters, Stephanie and Elise.

Azaria’s mother worked as a publicist for Columbia Pictures before marrying his father, promoting films in Latin American countries due to her fluency in both English and Spanish.[5] Azaria would frequently “memorise and mimic” the scripts of films, shows, and stand-up comedy routines he enjoyed as a child.

Hank Azaria is known for his versatile voice acting work and has lent his voice to numerous characters in the animated television series “The Simpsons,” which includes iconic characters such as Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, and many others.

Apart from his voice acting career, Azaria has also appeared in live-action roles in both television and film.

He made his Broadway debut in Eric Idle’s Spamalot, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. In 2007, he returned to Broadway in Aaron Sorkin’s play The Farnsworth Invention.