What is Jordan Peele?
{{Infobox person | name = Jordan Peele | image = Jordan Peele Peabody 2014 (cropped).jpg | caption = Peele at the 2014 [[Peabody Awards]] | birth_name = Jordan Haworth Peele | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|02|21}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[Sarah Lawrence College]] | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|comedian|director|producer|writer}} | years_active = 2002–present | spouse = {{marriage|[[Chelsea Peretti]]|2016}} | children = 1 | awards = }} '''Jordan Peele''' (born February 21, 1979) is an [[Americans|American]] [[actor]], [[comedian]], [[movie director|director]], [[movie producer|producer]] and [[writer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/story/2012-01-30/Key-and-Peele-Angry-Obama-Translator/52893322/1|title=Key and Peele dare to make Obama angry|author=Bill Keveney|work=USA TODAY|date=30 January 2012|access-date=2013-10-29|archive-date=2016-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320221208/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/story/2012-01-30/Key-and-Peele-Angry-Obama-Translator/52893322/1|url-status=dead}}</ref> Peele directed and wrote the 2017 horror movie ''[[Get Out]]'', for which he won an [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]]. == Early Life and Education == Peele was born on February 21, 1979, in [[New York City]] and raised by a single mother on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[Manhattan]]. He graduated from the Calhoun School and attended [[Sarah Lawrence College]] in [[Yonkers, New York]]. He dropped out of college after two years to pursue comedy. == Career == Peele joined the cast of the sketch comedy show [[MADtv]] in 2003. He became friends with fellow cast member [[Keegan Michael-Key]]. The two became a comedy duo, and later co-starred in their own sketch show, [[Key & Peele]].[[File:Jordan Peele 2012.jpg|thumb|Peele in 2012]] '''As Filmmaker''