Jody Hill

Jody Hill born October 15 1976 is an American film director and screenwriter from Concord North Carolina In 2006 he directed cowrote coproduced and costarred in his first film The Foot Fist Way which he based on his experience as a Taekwondo black belt and instructor His followup film Observe and Report stars Seth Rogen and was released on April 10 2009 Hill is also cocreator and executive producer of the HBO series Eastbound Down The Foot Fist Way was seen by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay who bought the distributing rights to the film This led to a cult following He was invited to the set of Knocked Up where he met future collaborator Seth Rogen Hill was asked to do a cameo appearance with writing partner Ben Best in Rogens next film Superbad as Tut Long John Silver Hill later cast Rogen as the leading man in his film Observe and Report which opened at number 4 at the box office The role of Ronnie was written specifically for Rogen Hill is married to Collette Wolfe who is an actress also seen in his movies Observe and Report and The Foot Fist Way In 2010 Hill directed the parody music video Swagger Wagon as part of ad agency Saatchi Saatchis campaign for the Sienna SE minivan from Toyota Hills next film LAPI was announced as an action comedy about a hardboiled private investigator played by friend and frequent collaborator Danny McBride It is the first film Hill has directed but not written The script was written by Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan who have written two scripts on the 2009 Black List ComiCon and a remake of Brewsters Millions It is also the first film produced by Hills McBrides and friend David Gordon Greens new production company Rough House Pictures LAPI is announced for release in 2011 Description above from the Wikipedia article Jody Hill licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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D.O.B: 1976-10-15
Place of Birth: North Carolina, USA
Profession: director

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