Jake Steinfeld

Jake Steinfeld
Born	February 21, 1958 (1958-02-21) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980–present

Jake Steinfeld (born February 21, 1958) is an American actor and fitness personality. He has a line of fitness equipment called "Body by Jake" and also once hosted a Body by Jake TV show. He also starred on a sitcom on the Family Channel called Big Brother Jake. In 1985, he played a small role in the Jeff Goldblum comedy Into the Night. In 1986, he played a small role as a construction worker in the Tom Hanks comedy The Money Pit. In 1988, he played a cab driver in Coming to America, and "Sparky" in You Can't Hurry Love. In 1999, he co-founded the Major League Lacrosse professional lacrosse league. He supplied the voice of Git, a lab rat in the Disney animated feature Ratatouille. His catch phrase is "Don't quit!"

He helped Harrison Ford gain more muscular tone for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.^{[citation needed]}

Steinfeld is also the uncle of actress Hailee Steinfeld who starred in the 2010 Coen brothers film True Grit.

Mentions in Other Media

• In The Sopranos episode "Pie-O-My", Adriana La Cerva was shown watching a Body by Jake infomercial while watching television at home.
• Mentioned by Scott Thompson in The Kids in the Hall sketch "What If?" Scott had a dream where the show was filmed in LA and directed by Body By Jake

External links

• Jake Steinfeld at the Internet Movie Database
• "About Jake" at the Body by Jake website
• Hause, Irene [L.]. (1981, July). Jake Steinfeld: Movie-Makin’ Muscleman. Muscle & Bodybuilder, 3(11), pp. 14–18, 54. (Retrieved November 16, 2008.)