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Jared Antonio Farrow (born October 14, 1987), better known by his stage name Jay Pharoah, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and impressionist. He joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live in 2010, for its thirty-sixth season.[1] In 2015, he was ranked the 55th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine.[2]

Jay Pharoah
Pharoah in June 2016
Born	Jared Antonio Farrow (1987-10-14) October 14, 1987 (age 35) Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S.
Education	Virginia Commonwealth University
Occupation	Actor, comedian
Years active	2010–present
Website	www.jaypharoahworld.com

Early life

Pharoah was born and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. He began performing impersonations at age six and cites Gilbert Gottfried's character Iago in Aladdin as his first voice, explaining, "My father put me in a talent competition a couple of months later, and out of the whole thing I got fifth place."[3]

In 2005, Pharoah graduated from Indian River High School in Chesapeake. One of his characters, Principal Daniel Frye, is heavily influenced by IRHS's former principal,[4] James Frye.[5] Pharoah studied business at Tidewater Community College and Virginia Commonwealth University.[1]

Career

Pharoah has been performing stand-up comedy in community theaters and at comedy clubs in Virginia since he was 15.[6] He at one point toured with Corey Holcomb and Charlie Murphy.[1]

He became known for his many celebrity impressions,[7] including Barack Obama, Will Smith, DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Kanye West, Stephen A. Smith, Peter Dinklage, and Denzel Washington.[1]

Pharoah became an internet phenomenon when his impersonation of Barack Obama became widely seen on YouTube.[1][3]

2010–2016: Saturday Night Live

In 2010, Pharoah was hired by Saturday Night Live as a featured performer for the show's 36th season. Pharoah debuted on Saturday Night Live on September 25, 2010 and was regarded by Rob Moynihan of TV Guide as the "breakout player" for that season, for his impersonations of Barack Obama, Ben Carson, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Stephen A. Smith, Will Smith, Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, Michael Strahan, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, and Denzel Washington.[1][3] He debuted his SNL impersonation of Barack Obama in the 38th season premiere on September 15, 2012, succeeding Fred Armisen in that role.[8] Rolling Stone magazine described him as the "Jimmy Fallon of 2 Chainz impressions."[2]

Pharoah appeared in the independent film Lola Versus, released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in June 2012. In 2014, he had a small role in the buddy cop film Ride Along, starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, and appeared in the independent film Balls Out, a sport comedy starring fellow SNL cast members Beck Bennett and Kate McKinnon.[9]

In 2016, he appeared in a commercial for Old Navy,[10] alongside fellow SNL cast members Nasim Pedrad and Cecily Strong. On August 8, 2016, it was announced Pharoah alongside fellow cast member Taran Killam would be exiting the show ahead of its 42nd season.[11] Pharoah hosted the American Music Awards of 2016 with model Gigi Hadid. Pharoah has been working on his first album with record producer Myles William.[12]

Personal life

2020 encounter with police

In June 2020, amidst the ongoing George Floyd protests, Pharoah released footage showing how, in April 2020, he was detained at gunpoint[13] by the Los Angeles Police Department, with an officer kneeling on Pharoah's neck in the same manner as that which caused the murder of George Floyd.[14][15] Pharoah had met the generic description of a "black man in grey sweatpants and a grey shirt." After the officers googled Pharoah's name, they apologized and let him go.[14]

Filmography

Film

Key

	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Lola Versus	Randy
2013	Underdogs	Announcer 2
2014	Ride Along	Runflat
2014	Balls Out	Dan
2014	Top Five	Mike
2016	Get a Job	Skeezy D
2016	Sing	Meena's Grandfather (voice)
2018	Unsane	Nate Hoffman
2019	How to Fake a War	Harry Hope
2020	Bad Hair	Julius
2020	2 Minutes of Fame	Deandre
2020	All My Life	Dave Berger
2021	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Noah (voice)
2021	Resort to Love	Jason King
2022	The Blackening	Shawn
TBA	Spinning Gold	Cecil Holmes

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010–16	Saturday Night Live	Various	Main cast (season 36-41)
2011	The Cookout 2	Eddie O	TV movie
2014	Portlandia	Jay-Z (voice)	Episode: "Ecoterrorists"
2016–17	Legends of Chamberlain Heights	Montrel, Randy (voice)	Main cast
2017	BoJack Horseman	Man on the Street, Dashawn Manheim (voice)	2 episodes
2017	White Famous	Floyd Mooney	Main cast
2018	SuperMansion	Various	3 episodes
2018	Champaign ILL	Lou	Recurring cast
2019	A Million Little Things	Omar Howard	2 episodes
2017–22	Family Guy	Skee-Lo, Kanye West, Kanye Canes, Brick Baker, Reverend Lucius (voice)	Recurring role
2020	Loafy	Zookeeper Dan (voice)	Recurring cast
2020–21	Nickelodeon's Unfiltered[16]	Host	TV series
2021	Robot Chicken	Barack Obama (voice)	Episode: "May Cause Your Dad to Come Back With That Gallon of Milk He Went Out for 10 Years Ago"
2022	That's My Jam	Self	Episode: "Jay Pharoah & Nikki Glaser vs. Terry Crews & Dan Finnerty"
2022-present	The Simpsons	Drederick Tatum (voice)	2 episodes
2022	A Black Lady Sketch Show		Episode: "Bounce Them Coochies, Y'all!"
2022	Out of Office	Neal	TV movie

Video games

• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016) – Andre

References

External links

• Official website
• Jay Pharoah at IMDb

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Jared Antonio Farrow (* 14. Oktober 1987 in Chesapeake, Virginia) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Stand-up-Comedian.[1]

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