- Born
- Birth nameJeffrey Allan Anderson
- Nickname
- Heff A
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Jeff Anderson is an American film and television actor, director, and screenwriter best known for starring as Randal Graves in Clerks (1994) and Clerks II (2006). In between, he has appeared in other Kevin Smith directed films and has written, directed, and starred in Now You Know (2002). For his role in Clerks, Anderson was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpousesBarbara Jacques(2009 - present)Lisa Spoonauer(May 23, 1998 - 1999) (divorced)
- Sardonic, drawling, heavily-accented voice
- Frequently works with Kevin Smith
- He claims he gets recognized as Randal Graves mostly by his voice.
- Owns and runs his own import tile company.
- Worked at AT&T until high school friend, Kevin Smith, told him to audition for Clerks (1994). He also wore an AT&T t-shirt throughout the movie.
- Even though his character had much of the dialogue, in every scene in Clerks (1994), he had gum in his mouth. Claims it helped him relax.
- Proposed to his wife (now divorced), Lisa Spoonauer, after only knowing her three weeks on the set of Clerks (1994).
- (How he got the role in Randal from "Clerks"): "I knew Kevin from high school. We graduated the same year. After high school, Kevin used to work in the video store from Clerks, which is just as dismal in real life as it is on film, therefore it was a great place to rent videos because nobody would go there. Kevin was an awesome video employee. He was the anti-Randal, never charged late fees and always had a recommendation for good flicks to rent. It was my coming to the video store, which eventually got me the role as Randal. He'd be pecking away at the script for Clerks while he worked and we would talk about it and when he was finally holding auditions, he invited me down to watch. I watched the auditions, which were less than stellar, then got up and did my own less than stellar audition. Somehow, Kevin saw something he liked in it and came to my house a few nights later and read me for Randal."
- (On his first screenplay "Now You Know"): "I pretty much wrote it in my spare time. I never really said, "Okay, I'm going to write a movie now." I was just kinda screwing around."
- I loved Chasing Amy. I hated the fact that I wasn't in it. It's a love/hate thing.
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