Jonah Hill

Personal context

Summary

Jonah Hill is an actor, writer, director, and producer known for comedies such as Superbad and 21 Jump Street, as well as dramatic roles in Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street. His writing and directing include Mid90s, a coming-of-age story centered on skateboarding, and Stutz, a documentary about therapy and mental health. Hill has publicly called himself a gay-rights activist and supported the Human Rights Campaign’s campaign for Russia’s LGBT community; he also rebuked a sexist comment as “not a very feminist attitude.” In an interview about Mid90s, he described its cast as reflecting his multicultural skateboarding life and said he needed to do better in using his privilege to combat prejudice.