John Hamburg

Hamburg was born to a Jewish family^[1] in Manhattan, the son of New York City radio personality Joan Hamburg and Morton I. Hamburg.^[2] He graduated from Brown University in 1992 with a degree in history. He then attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.^[3]

Hamburg is married to actress Christina Kirk.^[2]

After screening his 1996 short film Tick at the Sundance Film Festival, Hamburg wrote and directed the 1998 film Safe Men. Hamburg then found greater success co-writing Meet the Parents and Zoolander, and returned to the director's chair with Along Came Polly, which he also wrote. He also co-wrote the sequel Meet the Fockers. In 2009, Hamburg wrote and directed the hit comedy I Love You, Man. He wrote the second sequel to Meet the Parents, entitled Little Fockers.^[2]

In 2016, Hamburg co-wrote the sequel Zoolander 2, which grossed $56 million at the box office compared to a $50 million budget,^[4] and directed and co-wrote the comedy Why Him? for 20th Century Fox.^[5] In 2022, he wrote and directed the Netflix film Me Time starring Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg.^[6][7]

Acting roles

 

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