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Birth Name:
Hank Albert Azaria
Birth Place:
Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States
Date of Birth:
April 25, 1964
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Greek Sephardic Jewish
The American voice actor is famous for his voice roles on the television sitcom, The Simpsons. His main roles included Moe, Chief Wiggum and Apu. He was born to Sephardic Jewish parents who are originally from Salonika in northern Greece.
Source:
http://animatedtv.about.com/od/hankazaria1/p/profazaria.htm
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José , thanks for the interesting but of info. I wonder how close it is to Spanish.
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They are Sephardic jews meaning spanish jews. His parents spoke spanish and ladino an archaic spanish that the spanish jews kept after they left Spain.
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