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Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles in various films, such as Modern Romance, Lost in America (which he also directed), The Scout, Defending Your Life, and The In-Laws. He is also well-known for voicing Jake the Bengal tiger in the 1998 comedy film Dr. Dolittle, Russ Cargill, the main antagonist of the 2007 Fox animated film The Simpsons Movie, and Tiberius in the 2016 Universal/Illumination animated comedy film The Secret Life of Pets.

For Disney, he voiced Marlin in Disney/Pixar's 2003 animated film Finding Nemo and its 2016 sequel Finding Dory.

Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein into a Jewish show business family in Beverly Hills, California, to Thelma Leeds (née Goodman), an actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as "Parkyakarkus". He is the youngest of three sons. His older brothers are the late comedic actor Bob Einstein and Clifford Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates. His older half-brother was Charles Einstein, a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant. His grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia. He grew up among show business families in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner.

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