Ricky Jay Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ricky Jay Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Richard Jay Potash (June 26, 1946 â€" November 24, 2018), known

professionally as Ricky Jay, was an American stage magician, actor and

writer. In a profile for The New Yorker, Mark Singer called Jay

"perhaps the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive". In addition to

sleight of hand, Jay was known for his card tricks, card throwing,

memory feats, and stage patter. He also wrote extensively on magic and

its history. His acting credits included the films The Prestige, The

Spanish Prisoner, Mystery Men, Heist, Boogie Nights, Tomorrow Never

Dies, House of Games, and Magnolia, and the HBO series Deadwood. In

2015 he was the subject of an episode of PBS's American Masters,

making him the only magician ever to have been profiled in that

series.Jay preferred not to discuss the details of his childhood. He

was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Shirley (Katz) and Samuel Potash. A

member of a middle-class Jewish family, he grew up in Elizabeth, New

Jersey. He rarely spoke publicly about his parents, but he did share

an anecdote: "My father oiled his hair with Brylcreem and brushed his

teeth with Colgate," Jay recalled. "He kept his toothpaste in the

medicine cabinet and the Brylcreem in a closet about a foot away.

Once, when I was ten, I switched the tubes. All you need to know about

my father is that after he brushed his teeth with Brylcreem he put the

toothpaste in his hair."During an interview on the National Public

Radio program Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Jay said that possibly "the

only kind memory I ever had of my parents" was when they secretly

hired one of his idols, the magician Al Flosso, to perform at his bar

mitzvah. Jay's grandfather, Max Katz, was a certified public

accountant and amateur magician who introduced Jay to magic.
Ricky Jay Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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