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Bob Balaban

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Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor and filmmaker. Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films, and was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Gosford Park (2001), in which he also appeared. He is also an author of children's novels. Balaban has appeared in the Christopher Guest comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006) and in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Bob Balaban is the 2,958th most popular actor (down from 2,501st in 2024), the 5,009th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,946th in 2019) and the 1,409th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bob Balaban ranks 2,958 out of 13,578. Before him are Cameron Boyce, Kate Burton, Sasha Alexander, Dany Robin, L. Q. Jones, and Siegfried Rauch. After him are Barry Newman, Rajesh Khanna, Hans Christian Blech, Michael Byrne, Dougray Scott, and Won Bin.

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Among people born in 1945, Bob Balaban ranks 301. Before him are Bob Peck, Jim Davis, Christophe, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Claude Izzo, and Wyomia Tyus. After him are Tom Segev, Pietro Grasso, Edoardo Reja, Sandro de América, Paul Kennedy, and Andrew Birkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Balaban ranks 5,009 out of 20,380. Before him are Roscoe Tanner (1951), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Stephen Krashen (1941), Jeff Hanneman (1964), Wyomia Tyus (1945), and Cary Joji Fukunaga (1977). After him are Ted Williams (1918), John C. Frémont (1813), Barry Newman (1938), Eric Dolphy (1928), Robert Barron (1959), and Marc Mitscher (1887).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Bob Balaban ranks 1,409. Before him are Steve Franken (1932), Kelly Rutherford (1968), Lena Horne (1917), Cameron Boyce (1999), Sasha Alexander (1973), and L. Q. Jones (1927). After him are Barry Newman (1938), Amy Madigan (1950), Burl Ives (1909), Jesse Eisenberg (1983), Gene Barry (1919), and Julie Benz (1972).

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