Jordan Peele
Birthday: 21 February 1979, New York City, New York, USA
Height: 171 cm
Jordan Peele attended the Computer School in I.S. 44 for Junior High School and went on to attend The Calhoun School for high school, graduating in 1997. He then went on to attend Sarah Lawrence Colle ...Show More
[2013] I no longer answer to [the name] Key.
[2013] I no longer answer to [the name] Key.
[on being biracial] Growing up, until really last year, I don't know that I would have readily broug Show more
[on being biracial] Growing up, until really last year, I don't know that I would have readily brought up my white mother to anyone. It was not something I'm embarrassed by, but to announce that was synonymous to some black people to saying, 'I think I'm better than you.' This whole thing has felt almost like a coming out as biracial - saying this is a thing, we exist, and this is a future. Hide
[on Key and Peele (2012)] I love dishing it out to everybody, and I love doing that on the show. But Show more
[on Key and Peele (2012)] I love dishing it out to everybody, and I love doing that on the show. But Keegan and I are usually perceived as African-American, and those characters are our bread and butter. Yes, we make fun of a lot of black people, but we make fun of a wide variety of black people because we don't like this idea that black people are a monolith, that there's only one type of black people. Hide
[Barack Obama] is the best thing ever to happen to black nerds. Up until Obama, it was basically Urk Show more
[Barack Obama] is the best thing ever to happen to black nerds. Up until Obama, it was basically Urkel and the black guy from Revenge of the Nerds - Lamar. Other than that, we had no role models. So he made us cool. Hide
Jordan Peele's FILMOGRAPHY
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as Actor (232)
as Director (1)
as Creator (7)
Jordan Peele'S roles
Fanny
Ghost of Duke Ellington
Dr. Brian
Derrick
Melvin
Chad
Rell Williams
Alan
