Neil deGrasse Tyson

Acting•Born October 5, 1958 (age 67)•Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil deGrasse Tyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

2024

Fortitude: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy

as Self

Movie

2024

Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone

as Self

Movie

2024

Grave Conversations

as Self

2024

The Greatest Love Story Never Told

as Self

Movie

2024

This Is Me…Now

as Taurus

Movie

2023

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

as Self

Movie

2023

UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

as Self - Director, Hayden Planetarium

2023

Velma

as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

2022

Celebrity Jeopardy!

as Self - Contestant

2022

Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?

as Self

2022

Sherri

as Self - Guest

2022

Pantheon

as Dr. Moore (voice)

2022

Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography

as Self

Movie

2021

This Is Pop

as Self (archive footage)

2021

Woman in Motion

as Self

Movie

2021

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

as Self - Contestant

2020

Cosmos: Mundos Posibles

2019

Retro Tech

as Self - Astrophysicist, Planetary Scientist & Author

2019

Could You Survive The Movies?

as Self

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

2019

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

2019

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

as Self - Narrator (archive sound)

Movie

2018

MARS: Inside SpaceX

as Self

Movie

2018

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time

as Merlin

Movie

2018

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

as Self

2018

Turning Point

as Self

Movie

2018

Black Hole Apocalypse

as Self

Movie

2017

Future '38

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

Movie

2017

Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson

as Self

Movie

2017

Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?

as Self

Movie

2017

Food Evolution

as Narrator

Movie

2017

Logic's Everybody Documentary

as Self

Movie

2017

The Truth Is in the Stars

as Self

Movie

2017

Bill Nye Saves the World

as Self - Voice of Coffee Maker (voice)

2017

Bill Nye: Science Guy

as Self

Movie

2017

Talking with Chris Hardwick

as Self

2017

The Boundary

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

Movie

2017

The Mars Generation

as Self

Movie

2016

Fight For Space

as Self

Movie

2016

Scrat: Spaced Out

as Narrator

Movie

2016

The Atheist Delusion

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2016

For the Love of Spock

as Self

Movie

2016

Match Game

as Self - Panelist

2016

Ice Age: Collision Course

as Neil deBuck Weasel (voice)

Movie

2016

Chelsea

as Self

2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

Movie

2016

Zoolander 2

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

Movie

2016

Lazer Team

as Self

Movie

2015

Jay Leno's Garage

as Self

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self

2015

Celebrity Family Feud

as Self

2015

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

as Self - Host

2015

Hubble's Cosmic Journey

as Narrator (voice)

Movie

2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden

as Self - Guest

2015

Hot Sugar's Cold World

as Self

Movie

2015

Hot Ones

as Self

2015

Miles from Tomorrowland

as Main Title Narration (voice)

2014

BoJack Horseman

as Planetarium Narrator (voice)

2014

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

as Self - Guest

2014

Cosmos

as Self - Host

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self

2013

Dark Universe

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie

2013

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

as Self - Guest

2013

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2012

The Reality of Me

as Self

Movie

2012

Gravity Falls

as Waddles' Machine (voice)

2012

The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

as Self

2011

Where Did We Come From?

as Self

Movie

2010

Regular Show

as Self (voice)

2009

How Life Began

as Self

Movie

2009

400 Years of the Telescope

as Narrator (voice)

Movie

2008

Q&A

as Self - Panellist

2008

Einstein

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

Movie

2007

The Big Bang Theory

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2006

Nova: Monster Of The Milky Way

as Self

Movie

2006

Last Days on Earth

as Self

Movie

2005

The Colbert Report

as Self

2005

The Colbert Report

as Self (uncredited)

2005

NOVA scienceNOW

as Host

2004

Origins

as Narrator

Movie

2004

Stargate Atlantis

as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self

2003

MythBusters

as Self

2002

Unfolding Universe

as Self

Movie

1999

Futurama

as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

1999

Family Guy

as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

1997

The View

as Self

1997

The View

as Self - Guest

1996

The Daily Show

as Self - Guest

1989

The Simpsons

as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

1974

NOVA

as Self - Host

1974

NOVA

as Self - Narrator

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MiP: The Journey Across the Universe

as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

Movie

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Gracie

as Self

Movie

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Conspiracy Theories & Skepticism

as Self

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing

BirthdayOctober 5, 1958

Place of BirthManhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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