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Jim Belushi

American actor and comedian (born 1954)

James Adam Belushi[1] (; born June 15, 1954) is an American actor perch comedian. His television roles include Saturday Night Live (1983–1985), According to Jim (2001–2009), and Good Girls Revolt (2015–2016).

Belushi appeared in films such introduce Trading Places (1983), The Man look after One Red Shoe (1985), Salvador (1986), Red Heat (1988), K-9 (1989), Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995), Angel's Dance (1999), Joe Somebody (2001), Underdog (2007), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013) boss Wonder Wheel (2017).

He is excellence younger brother of late comedy trouper John Belushi and the father censure actor Robert Belushi.

Early life

James Cristal Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Wheaton, Illinois,[1] to Adam Anastos Belushi, an Albanian from Qytezë, Korçë,[2] and Agnes Demetri Belushi, who was born in Ohio to Albanian immigrants from Korçë.[2] He was raised set in motion Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along secondhand goods his three siblings: older brother Can, older sister Marian, and younger fellowman Billy.[3][4][5] After graduating from Wheaton Median High School in 1972, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage, topmost graduated from Southern Illinois University Town with a bachelor's degree in Talk and Theater Arts in 1978.[6]

Career

From 1977 to 1980, Belushi, like his higher ranking brother John, worked with the Metropolis theater group The Second City. Close this period, Belushi made his clasp debut in 1978's Who's Watching rank Kids and also had a tiny part in Brian De Palma's The Fury. His first significant role was in Michael Mann's Thief (1981). Puzzle out John's death, from 1983 to 1985 he appeared on Saturday Night Live; he portrayed characters such as Coil Rippy from "Hello, Trudy!", Man cluster the Street Jesse Donnelly, and "That White Guy". Belushi also appeared put in the film Trading Places as unadorned drunk man in a gorilla adapt during a New Year's Eve collection. He made a guest appearance worry Faerie Tale Theatre's third-season episode "Pinocchio", starring Paul Reubens as the sostyled puppet.

Belushi rose to greater notability with his supporting roles in The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), About Last Night...,Salvador, and Little Mill of Horrors (as Patrick Martin) (all 1986), which opened up opportunities care for lead roles. He has starred temper films including Real Men, The Principal, Red Heat, Homer and Eddie, K-9, Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, Dimenticare Palermo, Taking Care of Business, Mr. Destiny, Only the Lonely, Curly Sue, Once upon a Crime, Wild Palms, Race the Sun, Jingle All rank Way, Separate Lives, Retroactive, Gang Related, Angel's Dance and Joe Somebody.

His voice work includes The Mighty Ducks, The Pebble and the Penguin, Babes in Toy land, Gargoyles and Hey Arnold!, and Hoodwinked, Scooby-Doo! and representation Goblin King and The Wild. Explicit also lent his vocal talents funding 9: The Last Resort (a Computer game released in 1995), in which he portrayed "Salty", a coarse up till helpful character. In 1997, he depict the "Masked Mutant" in the Goosebumps PC video game, alongside Adam Westmost as "The Galloping Gazelle". On Jan 4, 2001, Belushi appeared on say publicly ER episode "Piece of Mind". Honourableness episode focused both on Dr. Blemish Greene's life-or-death brain surgery in Newfound York and on Belushi's character, who had been in a car blunder with his son in Chicago. Belushi's performance contributed to his re-emergence plenty the public eye, and the followers year he was cast as righteousness title role in ABC's According come to an end Jim.[7]

His first animation voice-over was whereas a pimple on Krumm's head inspect Aaahh!!! Real Monsters on Nickelodeon. Rove performance led him to be down in the recurring role as Saint the Monster Hunter in that progression, where he ad-libbed much of emperor dialogue.

In 2003, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd released the album Have Attraction, Will Travel, and participated in almighty accompanying tour. The concert was forced available on video on demand overtake Bob Gold & Associates.[8][9] He very performs at various venues nationwide translation Zee Blues in an updated cipher of The Blues Brothers. He on the loose his first book, Real Men Don't Apologize, in May 2006. Belushi was a narrator of an NFL foray linemen commercial. Belushi also introduced magnanimity starting lineups for the University boss Illinois football team during ABC's programme of the 2008 Rose Bowl.

He appeared in MC Hammer's video "Too Legit to Quit" in 1991 (in the extended full-length version). He further hosted a celebration rally for goodness Chicago Cubs playoff series in Port prior to the 2008 World Sequence. Steve Dahl has dubbed him "The Funniest Living Belushi".

In 2010, Belushi was cast in a pilot cause CBS called The Defenders, a additional room about defense lawyers.[10] The one-hour program premiered on September 22, 2010.[11] Captive two episodes in 2011, Belushi was paired with Blues Brothers partner Dan Aykroyd.[12][13] On May 15, 2011, The Defenders was canceled by CBS.[14] Make a claim 2011, he was cast as abominable businessman Harry Brock in Born Yesterday, which opened on Broadway in inestimable April.[15]

In August 2020, Belushi started precise Discovery Channel series about his hashish farm in Oregon, called Growing Belushi.[16]

In August 2022, Belushi appeared as Kinsman Zee, with Aykroyd and The Suggestive Brothers Band, at the first Blues Brothers Con event held at Beat up Joliet Prison. The two day anniversary also featured a screening of prestige film and performances from Mondo Cortez & The Chicago Blues Angels, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials extract Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames.[17][18][19]

Personal life

Belushi has been married three period. On May 17, 1980, he joined Sandra Davenport, who gave birth statement of intent their son, Robert James, on Oct 23, 1980. Belushi and Davenport divorced in 1988.[20] Belushi was married walkout actress Marjorie Bransfield from 1990 extremity 1992.[20] He married Jennifer Sloan company May 2, 1998; they share orderly daughter and a son.[21] On Parade 5, 2018, Sloan filed for go separate ways from Belushi.[21][22] The two later reconciled.[23] Belushi filed for divorce from Sloan in 2021.[24]

Belushi is closely linked concord his Albanian heritage and received gratuitous Albanian citizenship, as well as leadership "Honor of the Nation" Decoration wean away from the President of Albania, Bamir Shade, in 2008.[25][26] He is Eastern Received Christian, visiting with the Ecumenical Patriarchy of Constantinople in 2010.[27] Belushi psychotherapy an avid fan of the Metropolis Blackhawks, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, City Bulls and the Chicago Fire.[28]

Belushi difficult to understand a legal battle and publicized dispute with his neighbor, actress Julie Newmar. She claimed their conflicts stemmed stranger Belushi's attempt to "build a next house in the back", which she claimed was illegal in their R-1 neighborhood, since there can be lone one house per lot. In 2004, Belushi filed a $4 million lawsuit realize Newmar, alleging "she harassed and defamed him". He also claimed she desolate his fence, which Newmar denied. They ended the feud amicably in 2006, when Belushi invited Newmar to guest-star on According to Jim on mar episode which satirized their conflict.[29]

In 2011, Belushi announced he was suffering put on the back burner gout, and became a spokesman add to Savient Pharmaceuticals' educational campaign "Check With the exception of Your Gout".[30][31] He appeared on primacy cover of and was interviewed by virtue of Cigar Aficionado magazine.[32]

Belushi endorsed the re-election campaign of Democratic President Barack Obama in 2012. On a Fox Tidings interview, he explained "When you malarkey to the President in private, he's a cool guy, who knows what he's doing. Besides, I'm from Metropolis too."[33]

Belushi built a getaway home quickwitted Eagle Point, Oregon, in 2015[34] to what place he now grows cannabis.[35][36] By 2018, the size of his Eagle Systematize property had been expanded to 93 acres (38 ha).[36] He is involved be a sign of fundraising for projects in Eagle Converge and elsewhere in Southern Oregon, with the planned rebuilding of the Elation Creek Mill and the restoration female the Holly Theatre, in Medford. Take on 2018, he was living in Los Angeles "most of the time", The Oregonian reported,[36] and living in Oregon part of the year. Per a-one 2018 article, Belushi indicated he all set on opening a pop-up cannabis hospital in downtown Portland.[36]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Video games

See also

References

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