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10 Celebrities Who Became Famous Overnight

6Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill Feldstein, better known as Jonah Hill, is a 30-year-old American actor, voice actor, producer, screenwriter and comedian.

He is a 2-time Academy Award nominee for his performances in the 2011 ‘Moneyball’ and the 2013 film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.

Among other significant films are included the 2007 ‘Superbad’, 2009 Funny People’, 2010 ‘Get Him to the Greek’, 2012 ’21 Jump Street’, 2012 ‘Django Unchained’, 2013 ‘This Is the End’, as well as 2010 ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (his voice).

The 2-time Academy Award nominee (the first for his role in 2011 ‘Moneyball’ and second for his role in 2013 ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’) became famous very fast. How?
In his case, it’s all about who you know.

Jonah Hill attended the Crossroads private school in California, where he made an important friend, Dustin Hoffman’s son, Jake.

While on the ‘Howard Stern’ radio show, Jonah Hill made a prank to Dustin Hoffman, who was impressed and he helped Jonah by giving him a role in ‘I Heart Huckabees’.

From that moment, Jonah Hill became an in-demand actor, and starred in several blockbusters, like the ones we mentioned above.

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