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Jeff Corwin Biography
Birth Name:Jeffrey Corwin
Birth Place:Norwell, Massachusetts, United States
Profession Producer, Actor, Writer
Fast Facts
- Lectures on wildlife, ecology and conservation across the United States
- Addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations about the need to conserve neotropical rain forests in 1993
- Visited a tropical rainforest for the first time in 1984 in Belize
- Appears on television programs, including his own "The Jeff Corwin Experience" and "Corwin's Quest," as an animal and nature conservationist
- Was called in as a geologist on MSNBC during the 2011 tsunami in Japan to explain the event
- Had a terrifying encounter with an elephant at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center, in which it picked him up in his trunk and mouth, shook him and threw him, injuring his arm
- Though he is not a direct descendant of Vlad the Impaler, he is a descendant of the Corvin clan of which Vlad was a member
Awards
- 2004Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series: winner
- 2004Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Series: nominated
- 2005Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series: nominated
- 2005Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Series: nominated
- 2013Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series: nominated
- 2014Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Travel Program: winner
- 2014Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle/Travel Program: nominated
- 2016Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Lifestyle/Travel/Children's Series Host: winner
- 2016Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program: nominated
- 2019Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Host for a Lifestyle, Children's or Special Class Program: nominated
- 2019Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program: nominated
- 2020Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Host for a Daytime Program: nominated
- 2020Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program: nominated
- 2021Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Daytime Program Host: nominated
- 2022Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Daytime Program Host: nominated