Bob Odenkirk Age:biography and wiki

American actor, writer, and director Bob Odenkirk (Robert John Odenkirk) was born in Berwyn, Illinois, on October 22, 1962. Find out about Bob Odenkirk’s age, height, physical characteristics, dating history, affairs, family, and professional updates. Find Out How Much Money He Has This Year and How Much He Spends? Discover how, at the age of 61, he obtained the majority of his net worth as well.

Popular As	Robert John Odenkirk
Occupation	Actor,comedian,director,producer,writer
Age	61 years old
Net Worth	$1 Million – $5 Million
Zodiac Sign	Libra
Born	22 October, 1962
Birthday	22 October
Birthplace	Berwyn, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American

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Bob Odenkirk Height, Weight & Measurements

Bob Odenkirk, who is 61 years old, stands 1.75 meters tall.

Physical Status

Height	1.75 m
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Who Is Bob Odenkirk’s Wife?

Naomi Yomtov (born in 1997) is his spouse.

Family

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Wife	Naomi Yomtov (m. 1997)
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Children	2

Timeline

Ten 47-minute episodes make up the first season. Ten episodes each of the second and third seasons will air in early 2016 and 2017, respectively. As on February 9, 2020, the fourth season is accessible on Netflix, and on February 23, 2020, the fifth season debuted on AMC. The sixth and final season of the show is still in the planning stages.

With the conclusion of Better Call Saul in sight, Odenkirk founded Cal-Gold Pictures, a production business, and landed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television in April 2020. Together with Cal-Gold, Odenkirk hopes to create original stories with compelling characters and social significance. Ian Friedman, a former vice president of Comedy Central, will lead Cal-Gold’s television division.

Odenkirk’s alma mater, SIU, announced on December 15, 2019, that it has granted him an honorary Doctor of Performing Arts degree.

April 2015 saw a report that Odenkirk and former co-star David Cross were producing a new sketch comedy series called W/ Bob and David, which was based on their previous show, Mr. Show. Netflix commissioned the series, and its first season, consisting of four 30-minute episodes and an hour-long behind-the-scenes special, debuted in November 2015. Cross and Odenkirk co-write, co-star, and produce the program.

Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories, an anthology series on Adult Swim, featured Odenkirk as Dr. Stork, a podiatrist who specializes in amputating people’s toes, in the fall of 2014.

The comedy group of the same name, The Birthday Boys, was the star of a sketch comedy show executive produced by Odenkirk. In addition, Odenkirk directed and made appearances in several of the show’s segments. It debuted on October 18, 2013, on IFC. Odenkirk portrayed Police Chief Bill Oswalt in the Fargo miniseries on FX in 2014.

Following his Breaking Bad role, Odenkirk went on to play more important parts in critically acclaimed movies like Little Women, The Post, The Disaster Artist, and The Spectacular Now, which won the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Acting. Nebraska, directed by Alexander Payne, was also nominated for a 2013 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or.

Let’s Do This! is a 2011 Adult Swim original series that Odenkirk wrote and developed. He plays Cal Mackenzie-Goldberg, a “two-bit movie mogul and head of Cal-Gold Pictures as he leads a collection of crazy, fame-hungry strivers chasing Hollywood dreams”. The Adult Swim website features the pilot.

As dishonest attorney Saul Goodman, Odenkirk joined the cast of AMC’s Breaking Bad in 2009. He made three guest appearances in the second season before going on to participate in subsequent seasons as a series regular and finishing the show in its last year.

Let’s Go to Prison, written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant and starring Will Arnett, Dax Shepard, and Chi McBride, was directed by Odenkirk in 2006. The movie brought in slightly more than US$4.6 million at the box office overall, with a 12% “All Critics” score from Rotten Tomatoes. The Brothers Solomon, which was written by Will Forte and starred Forte, Will Arnett, and Kristen Wiig, was directed by Odenkirk the next year. The movie made about $1 million at the box office overall and got a 15% “All Critics” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s works were included in an unsolicited gift that Odenkirk received in 2004. He was drawn to their distinct voice and worked with them to create Tom Goes to the Mayor, a semi-animated program for Adult Swim. He helped Tim and Eric create Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, their second television series. A number of TV shows, such as NewsRadio, Joey, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Entourage, Weeds, How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Seinfeld, and Just Shoot Me!, featured him in small roles.

Little parts in movies like Wayne’s World 2, The Cable Guy, Can’t Stop Dancing, and Monkeybone were Odenkirk’s first acting gigs. Odenkirk starred Keith in Melvin Goes to Dinner and directed the film in 2003. At the SXSW Film and Music Festival, the movie earned the Audience Award and garnered favorable reviews from reviewers. Later, it was independently released in five places before being published on DVD by Sundance.

Odenkirk presently plays the lead in the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul. The show primarily centers on lawyer Saul Goodman’s journey from court-appointed defense attorney beginnings to his eventual status as a successful, if unscrupulous, criminal defense counsel. It is set in 2002, six years before to the character’s Breaking Bad debut. Additionally, he has received credit

as the show’s producer since Season 1.

Odenkirk wed Naomi Yomtov in 1997; Yomtov went on to become W/ Bob and David’s executive producer. Together, they are parents to two kids.

David Cross and Odenkirk first met at Ben Stiller. Soon after, they started doing live sketch performances, which later turned into Mr. Show with Bob and David. Odenkirk debuted as Larry Sanders’ agent, Stevie Grant, in a recurring role on The Larry Sanders Show in 1993. He would play the role all the way through till 1998. He made a few guest appearances on Roseanne and Tom Arnold’s The Jackie Thomas Show in 1993 as well.

Odenkirk’s hiring for The Ben Stiller Show’s cast in 1992 was made possible by his acquaintance with Ben Stiller, with whom he temporarily shared an office at SNL. His creation and performance in the iconic sketch “Manson Lassie” earned the show an Emmy Award for writing, and he served as both an actor and a writer for the program. But by the time the show took home the prize, it had already been discontinued. For the 1993 and 1994 seasons of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Odenkirk wrote for the program.

He had a few little roles on the show, but the one that stood out the most was in a spoof advertisement for Bad Idea Jeans in 1991.

Odenkirk was hired in 1991 as a writer for the television series Get a

Chris Elliott, a former cast member of Late Night with David Letterman, starred in Life. For The Dennis Miller Show, he wrote.

Odenkirk went back to Chicago to work on a theatrical production called Happy Happy Good Show with Smigel and O’Brien during SNL’s 1988 summer break. He performed in Tom Gianas’ one-man play, play-Acting Guy, the following summer. He wrote and performed in the Mainstage production of Second City, Flag Burning Permitted in Lobby Only, during his last summer break. He devised the character “Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker” for Chris Farley in that specific program; the role would eventually be repeated on Saturday Night Live.

In 1987, Odenkirk was employed as a writer for Saturday Night Live, where he remained until 1991. Collaborating with Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel, he

contributed to a number of the sketches they made, but he wasn’t sure if his own writing for the show would work.

Odenkirk attended Naperville North High School and graduated at the age of 16. He said he was “tired of high school” and was able to drop out of school when he was still a junior since he had earned enough credits. At the age of sixteen, he made the decision to enroll in the nearby College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, believing he would look foolish at any college. He attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, after a year at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “honing his sketch-writing and performance skills with live shows on both colleges’ radio stations.” His humor writing career started as a radio DJ for the SIU campus non-broadcast collegiate radio station, WIDB. He developed The Prime Time Special, a late-night (midnight to four am) radio comedy show at WIDB. He collaborated with up-and-coming talent like Matt Helser and Greg Weindorf. Odenkirk was three credits away from graduating from college after three years when he made the decision to try his hand at writing and improv in Chicago. Living in Chicago, he finished the credits and graduated from SIU in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree. After starting to train with Del Close, Odenkirk went to “The Players Workshop of the Second City,” where he met Robert Smigel. Their partnership would take Odenkirk to Saturday Night Live and last for years. He also shared the stage with well-known comedians at the Improv Olympic.

Tim Meadows and Chris Farley.

Odenkirk won two Emmys for his writing for Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Show throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. In addition, he performed in a recurring capacity as Agent Stevie Grant on The Larry Sanders Show and wrote for Get a Life and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Tim and Eric are a comic pair that Odenkirk found in the early 2000s. He produced their television shows, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, and Tom Goes to the Mayor. Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003), Let’s Go to Prison (2006), and The Brothers Solomon (2007) are the three movies he directed. Additionally, he developed the sketch comedy program The Birthday Boys as an executive producer, working with the

comedy group during a viewing of their productions at Los Angeles’ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Along with the rest of the Mr. Show ensemble, he and David Cross got back together in 2015 for the Netflix series W/ Bob & David. In the 2017 Netflix original movie Girlfriend’s Day, Odenkirk co-wrote, produced, and starred.

Robert John Odenkirk is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer who was born on October 22, 1962. recognized for his roles in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, as well as the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David, which he co-created and performed in alongside fellow comic and friend David Cross, he is best recognized for his smooth-talking legal profession.

Odenkirk grew up in Naperville after being born in Berwyn, Illinois. Walter Odenkirk (1930–1986), a printing industry worker, and Barbara Odenkirk (née Baier), a Catholic with Dutch, German, and Irish ancestry, had seven siblings total. Bob’s resolve to abstain from alcohol was motivated by Walter’s drinking, which contributed to his parents’ divorce. His father, according to him, is “remote, fucked-up, and not around.” From what he would later describe, Odenkirk grew up “hating” Naperville because “it felt like Nowheresville, like a dead end.” I was eager to relocate to a city so I could surround myself with interesting individuals.” In 1986, Walter Odenkirk passed away from bone cancer.
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