Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American comedian,
writer, producer, actor, and television host. He hosts Late Night with
Seth Meyers, a late-night talk show on NBC. Prior to that, he was a
cast member and head writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live
(2001â€"2014) and hosted the show's news parody segment, Weekend
Update.Meyers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was raised in
Okemos, Michigan, from four to ten years of age, and Bedford, New
Hampshire, after that. Meyers's mother, Hilary Claire (née Olson),
was a French teacher, and his father, Laurence Meyers Jr., worked in
finance. His younger brother, Josh Meyers, is an actor.His paternal
grandfather was an Ashkenazi Jewish emigrant, from Kalvarija near
MarijampolÄ— in modern-day Lithuania. Despite this ancestral
connection, Meyers does not consider himself Jewish. Meyers' other
ancestry is Czech, Austrian, Croatian (from his paternal grandmother),
Swedish (from his maternal grandfather), English, and German. Seth
discovered on the show Finding Your Roots that his family's original
surname, Trakianski, was changed by his great-grandfather to Meyers,
after his own father Mejer Trakianski.
writer, producer, actor, and television host. He hosts Late Night with
Seth Meyers, a late-night talk show on NBC. Prior to that, he was a
cast member and head writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live
(2001â€"2014) and hosted the show's news parody segment, Weekend
Update.Meyers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was raised in
Okemos, Michigan, from four to ten years of age, and Bedford, New
Hampshire, after that. Meyers's mother, Hilary Claire (née Olson),
was a French teacher, and his father, Laurence Meyers Jr., worked in
finance. His younger brother, Josh Meyers, is an actor.His paternal
grandfather was an Ashkenazi Jewish emigrant, from Kalvarija near
MarijampolÄ— in modern-day Lithuania. Despite this ancestral
connection, Meyers does not consider himself Jewish. Meyers' other
ancestry is Czech, Austrian, Croatian (from his paternal grandmother),
Swedish (from his maternal grandfather), English, and German. Seth
discovered on the show Finding Your Roots that his family's original
surname, Trakianski, was changed by his great-grandfather to Meyers,
after his own father Mejer Trakianski.
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