Biography for
Albert Brooks

Birth name
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
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Spouse
Kimberly Shlain (15 March 1997 - present) 2 children

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Trivia
Son, Jacob Eli, born [1 October 1998]

Brother of Bob Einstein who is best known for his character "Super Dave" Osbourne.

A good friend of Carrie Fisher. Debbie Reynolds used to try to get Carrie (her daughter) and Albert to marry.

Turned down the lead in When Harry Met Sally... (1989) because he thought it was too much like a Woody Allen script. Albert has been described as a West Coast Woody Allen

Son of Thelma Leeds and Harry Parke(comedian known as 'Parkyakarkus').

daughter, Claire Elizabeth born [26 March 2000]

Nephew of Zeke Manners

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy", by Ronald L. Smith, pg.61-62. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

Attended the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Gina Gershon, Rhonda Fleming, Jackie Cooper, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, Corbin Bernsen, E.G. Daily and Crispin Glover.


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Personal quotes
"Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch."

"I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society."


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He has also acted in other people's films, playing a starchy political campaigner in Taxi Driver (1976), Goldie Hawn's ill-fated husband in Private Benjamin (1980), Dan Aykroyd's car-mate in Twilight Zone-The Movie (1983), an unsuspecting manager in Unfaithfully Yours (1984), and, in an Oscar-nominated performance, the TV reporter-who-would-beanchorman in Broadcast News (1987). He reunited with that film's writer-director, James L. Brooks, for I'll Do Anything (1994). His brother, Bob Einstein, is familiar to TV viewers as Officer Judy (from "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"), and more recently as the ersatz stuntman "Super Dave" Osborne.