Eric Jacobson

Eric Jacobson
Born	(1970-07-25) July 25, 1970 New York, U.S.A.
Occupation(s)	Actor, director, puppeteer
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Mary

Eric Jacobson (born July 25, 1970) is an American puppeteer and Muppet performer, who has assumed the role of performing Frank Oz's characters since 2001.

Career

Jacobson initially started playing Bert in 1997, but officially joined the cast as Bert and additional Muppets in 2000. His role expanded in 2002 to include new Grover segments, particularly Global Grover. In 2001 he and David Rudman played Cookie Monster until 2002 when Sesame Workshop chose David as Cookie so there would be more interaction between Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster. However, Oz occasionally comes in to record new material with those characters.

His second role came in 2001 with The Book of Pooh, where he worked on Piglet and Kanga. That year, he also began playing Miss Piggy, debuting at the "Muppetfest" convention. Subsequently, in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002), he performed the roles of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005), as well as Sam the Eagle.

Jacobson is currently an active puppeteer for many Muppet productions, such as Disney's The Muppets Studio and Sesame Workshop's Sesame Street.

Jacobson appeared as the Little Bad Wolf in the pilot episode of Jack's Big Music Show.

Notable roles

• The Muppets - Miss Piggy (2001 – present), Fozzie Bear (2002 – present), Animal (2002 – present), Sam the Eagle (2005 – present), Marvin Suggs (2011 – present)
• Sesame Street - Bert (1997 – present), Grover (1998 – present), Cookie Monster (2002, 2005) and Guy Smiley (2005 – present)
• Play With Me Sesame - Bert & Grover
• Bear in the Big Blue House - Harry the Duck
• WWE Raw - Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal
• Muppet viral videos - Animal, Miss Piggy, Sam the Eagle, Fozzie Bear
• Studio DC: Almost Live - Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal
• Good Luck Charlie - Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal
• Disney Xtreme Digital - Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Animal
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz - Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Wicked Witch of the West, The Tattypoo the Good Witch of the North, The Glinda the Good of the South, The Wicked Witch of the East, The Cowardly Lion, Animal, Sam the Eagle
• A Muppet Family Christmas - Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Animal, Sam the Eagle

Guest appearances

Jacobson's Miss Piggy has appeared on Rove Live, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Tony Danza Show, Good Morning America, This Morning. and appeared in an episode in the Disney Channel Original Series So Random.

His Grover has appeared on Good Morning Australia, Rove Live, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! . His Fozzie has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition included Muppet guests, such as Jacobson's Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Animal. Jacobson's Bert appeared in episode 22 of Between the Lions' season 2, "Tweet! Tweet!".

External links

• Eric Jacobson at IMDb
• Eric Jacobson on Muppet Wiki
• Bunnytown