JEFF ANDERSON

'Jeffrey Allan Anderson' (born April 21, 1970 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American film actor best known for being featured in ''Clerks.'' and ''Clerks 2'' as Randal Graves. In between he has appeared in other Kevin Smith films and has written/directed/starred in the film ''Now You Know''.

Contents

Biography

Trivia

Filmography

External links

Biography

Born in New Jersey and then raised in Atlantic Highlands where he went to Henry Hudson Regional High School, the same school where aspiring writer friend Kevin Smith went to and where they also graduated in 1988. While working at AT&T Kevin was working on his first movie Clerks. The first auditioned was for the role of Jay but didn’t fit well with it after that Kevin gave Jeff the role of video store employee Randal Graves a foul-mouthed slacker apathy incarnate with convenience store worker best friend Dante Hicks. While working on the movie he fell in love with his Clerks co-star Lisa Spoonhauer and proposed to her after only knowing her 3 weeks on the set of Clerks and got married in 1995 and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.Went to NJIT school for Architecture before he dropped out and moved to LA and has done voice over work for television and radio commercials in the years since Clerks and started to write and direct and also act in his first movie Now You Know in 2002 the movie was written in about 2-3 months. The idea for his movie Now You Know came from the Matchbox 20 song called Push. Has started his own production company in Hollywood. Years later he and his wife divorced after 10 years of marriage. In 12 years later made a comeback to his charater Randal in a sequel Clerks 2 and is currently working on his next movie Marry Me To Death a suicidal man who hires a destitute woman to marry and murder him for the insurance money. In 2008, Jeff will be in a Kevin Smith movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno with Jason Mewes who were also his co-star in Clerks 2.

Trivia

★ Was a high school friend of Kevin Smith.

★ Went to the New Jersey Institute of Technology for Architecture before he dropped out and moved to Los Angeles.

★ Proposed to ''Clerks'' co-star Lisa Spoonhauer after only knowing her for three weeks. They eventually married, and later divorced after 10 years.

★ Was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.

★ Plays the drums.

★ Loves the band Better Than Ezra

★ Owns and operates a successful tile import company.

★ Currently working on his next script "Marry Me to Death".

★ Had a disagreement with Smith over his salary for ''Clerks''; he claimed he should have been paid more after the surprising success of the film.

★ He often says that when he is recognized as Randal it is always by voice, not appearance.

★ Originally, he didn't want to be in ''Clerks II''.

★ Trevor Fehrman, a.k.a. Elias in ''Clerks II'' was discovered in Jeff's movie ''Now You Know''

★ In every scene in Clerks he had gum in his mouth. He claims it helped him relax.

★ He auditioned for the role of Brodie Bruce in Mallrats.

★ He is a huge Denver Broncos fan.

Filmography

★ ''Clerks'' (1994)

★ ''Dogma (1999)

★ ''Love 101'' (2000)

★ '' (2000)

★ ''Rennie's Landing'' (2001)

★ ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

★ ''Now You Know (2002) (Actor, Writer, and Director)

★ ''The Flying Car (2002)

★ '' (2004)

★ ''Clerks II (2006)

★ ''Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

★ ''Red State (2008) (rumored)

External links

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★ Jeff Anderson Fans

★ Jeff Anderson profile in the San Francisco Chronicle written by Tony DuShane