Jake Kasdan Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Sierra Award for best original song featured in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"
• Directed his first series at age 25 with "Freaks and Geeks․"
• Got into show business thanks to his father Lawrence Kasdan, also a Hollywood writer and director
• Quote: "I always think of working on a pilot as akin to starting a band ․․․ in rare cases, when lightning strikes, the work and the product can actually transcend the existential ridiculousness of pilot season and lead to something really positive․"
• Quote: "My first job in television was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life․ The lessons I learned from those people ․․․ infused almost all of my directing work since․"
• Following his success on Fox's "New Girl," he signed a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox in the summer of 2012
• After acting in several of his father's films during the 1980s, he would begin work in film in the early '90s and eventually transition to television by the early 2000s