Jonathan Ames

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Writer

Birth Date: March 23, 1964

Age: 59 years old

Birth Place: New York, NY

Novelist, memoirist, raconteur, actor, producer, comic book writer, one-time porn film extra and sometime pugilist Jonathan Ames insists he is not identical to the eponymous character in his HBO series "Bored to Death" (2009-11), but viewers could be forgiven for confusing the two. Jason Schwartzman portrayed Ames as a somewhat nebbishy failed novelist turned private investigator, but, although they are both Jewish, live in New York, and write books, the real Jonathan Ames, for all the self-deprecating portrayals of himself he puts forth to the public, is actually an energetic and multi-talented artist. From the time he published his first novel at the precocious age of 25, through years of writing strikingly confessional columns for the New York Press, many of which were reprinted in memoir collections, to a one-man off-Broadway show, a series of acting gigs, a graphic novel collaboration and three seasons running his own show at HBO, Ames has proved himself to be anything but the ineffectual loser of the television character who shares his name.

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Werewolf Bitches From Outer Space

Executive Producer
Movie
2016

Blunt TalkStream

Creator
TV Show
2015
54%

Blunt TalkStream

Executive Producer
TV Show
2015
54%

Satan, Hold My Hand

Executive Producer
Movie
2013

Satan, Hold My Hand

Screenwriter
Movie
2013

The Extra Man

Executive Producer
Movie
2010

The Extra Man

Screenwriter
Movie
2010

Bored to DeathStream

Executive Producer
TV Show
2009
79%

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson

Guest
TV Show
2005

The Girl Under the Waves

Actor
Jonathan
Movie
2001

Curb Your EnthusiasmStream

Guest Star
Nathan Stein
TV Show
2000
92%

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