Matt Groening Bio | Wiki
Matt Groening (full Name: Matthew Abram Groening) is a popular American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. Groening serves as the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023, and Disenchantment (2018–present).
He made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde magazine Wet in 1978. At its peak, the cartoon became carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of American producer James L. Brooks. Brooks contacted him in 1985 about adapting Life in Hell for animated sequences for the Fox variety shows The Tracey Ullman Show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, he created a new set of characters, the Simpson family. Its shorts were spun off into their own series, The Simpsons, which has since aired 727 episodes.
In 1997, he and retired Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999, ran for four years on Fox, then picked up by Comedy Central for more seasons. In 2016, he developed a new series for Netflix, Disenchantment, which began in August 2018.
Groening has received 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, 11 for The Simpsons and 2 for Futurama, and a British Comedy Award due to “outstanding contribution to comedy” in 2004. In 2002, Groening received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award due to his work on Life in Hell. Groening won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, 2012.
Matt Groening Age
Groening was born on February 15, 1954, in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. He is 69 years old. Groening celebrates his birthday on February 15, every year.
Matt Groening Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Groening stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (approx:1.7 m)
Matt Groening Family | Parents
He was born in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children (older brother Mark and sister Patty were born in 1950 and 1952, while the younger sisters Lisa and Maggie in 1956 and 1958, respectively). Groening’s Norwegian American mother, Margaret Ruth (née Wiggum; March 23, 1919 – April 22, 2013), worked once as a teacher, and his Russian Mennonite father named Homer Philip Groening (December 30, 1919 – March 15, 1996), served as a filmmaker, advertiser, writer, and cartoonist. His father Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family.
Groening’s grandfather named Abraham Groening, worked as a professor at Tabor College, a Mennonite Brethren liberal arts college in Hillsboro, Kansas, prior to moving to Albany College (now named Lewis and Clark College) in Oregon in 1930.
Matt Groening Wife
Groening is married to his wife Agustina Picasso an Argentine artist. The two married in 2011 after a four-year relationship. Groening became stepfather to Agustina’s daughter named Camila Costantini. Groening and his wife Agustina Picasso welcomed a baby in May 2013 named Nathaniel Philip Picasso Groening, named after writer Nathanael West. The couple also welcomes daughters Luna Margaret and India Mia born in 2015. Groening also became a father of twins On June 16, 2018, when his wife Agustina gave birth to Sol Matthew and Venus Ruth, as reported via Instagram.
Before, Groening was married to his first wife Deborah Caplan. The pair married in 1986 and had two sons together namely, Homer (who goes by Will) and Abe, both of whom he occasionally portrays as rabbits in Life in Hell. Groening and Deborah divorced in 1999.
Matt Groening Education
Groening went to Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School. From 1972 through 1977, Groening studied at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, a liberal arts school that Groening described as “a hippie college, with no grades or required classes, that drew every weirdo in the Northwest”. Groening worked as the editor of the campus newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal, for which Groening also wrote articles and drew cartoons.
Matt Groening The Simpsons
Since 1989, Groening take part in the television series The Simpsons which is the longest-running U.S. primetime-television series in history and the longest-running U.S. animated series and sitcom. The Simpsons is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
Matt Groening Life In Hell
He described life in Los Angeles to his friends in the form of the self-published comic book Life in Hell, which became loosely inspired by the chapter “How to Go to Hell” in Walter Kaufmann’s book Critique of Religion and Philosophy. This comic book made its official debut as a comic strip in the Reader on April 25, 1980, and caught the attention of Hollywood writer-producer and Gracie Films founder James L. Brooks, who had been shown the strip by fellow producer Polly Platt.
Matt Groening Y Agustina Picasso
Groening is married to his wife Agustina Picasso an Argentine artist. The two married in 2011 after a four-year relationship. Groening became stepfather to Agustina’s daughter named Camila Costantini. Groening and his wife Agustina Picasso welcomed a baby in May 2013 named Nathaniel Philip Picasso Groening, named after writer Nathanael West. The couple also welcomes daughters Luna Margaret and India Mia born in 2015. Groening also became a father of twins On June 16, 2018, when his wife Agustina gave birth to Sol Matthew and Venus Ruth, as reported via Instagram.
Matt Groening Movies And Tv Shows
Movies
– Hair High (2004) as Dill
– Tales of the Rat Fink (2006) as Finkster
– The Simpsons Movie (2007)
– Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (2007)
– Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)
– The Longest Daycare (2012)
– I Know That Voice (2013)
– I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! (2015)
– Playdate with Destiny (2020)
– The Good, the Bart, and the Loki (2021)
– When Billie Met Lisa (2022)
Shows
– Disenchantment (2018-present)
– Futurama (1999-2013)
– Clerks: The Animated Series (2000-2002)
– The PJs (1999-2001)
– Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999)
– The Simpsons (1989-present)
– Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz (since 2000)
– Maratona Especial Os Simpsons (since 2017)
Matt Groening Love Is Hell
His then-girlfriend and co-worker at the Reader Deborah Caplan offered to publish “Love is Hell”, a series of relationship-themed Life in Hell strips, in book form. Published a month later, the book was an underground success, selling 22,000 copies in its first two printings.
Matt Groening Futurama
In 1997, he and retired Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999, ran for four years on Fox, then picked up by Comedy Central for more seasons. Groening has received 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, 11 for The Simpsons and 2 for Futurama, and a British Comedy Award due to “outstanding contribution to comedy” in 2004.
Matt Groening Disenchantment
It was reported on January 15, 2016, that Groening was in talks with Netflix to develop a new animated series. The series, Disenchantment, was ordered by Netflix on July 25, 2017. Its first ten episodes premiered on the streaming service in August 2018, with the remaining ten episodes of the initial order scheduled to air in September 2019. Netflix has also renewed the series for twenty additional episodes, which are expected to start in ten-episode batches in 2020 and 2021.
Matt Groening Net Worth
He works as a cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. Therefore, Groening has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Groening’s estimated net worth is $600 million.
Is Matt Groening Married
Yes, Groening is married to his wife Agustina Picasso an Argentine artist. The two married in 2011 after a four-year relationship. Groening became stepfather to Agustina’s daughter named Camila Costantini. Groening and his wife Agustina Picasso welcomed a baby in May 2013 named Nathaniel Philip Picasso Groening, named after writer Nathanael West.
How Old Is Matt Groening
Groening is a 69-year-old who was born on February 15, 1954, in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
Who Is Matt Groening
He is a cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. Groening serves as the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023, and Disenchantment (2018–present).