Background
Kasdan was born and raised in a secular Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan.
Kasdan was born and raised in a secular Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan.
Jake Kasdan is married to singer/songwriter Inara George of The Bird and the Bee. Kasdan has directed six theatrical films: Zero Effect (1998), Orange County (2002), The television Secretariat (2007), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011) and Sex Tape (2014). He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow, as a consulting producer and director on Freaks and Geeks and as a director on Undeclared.
He has also directed numerous stage productions.
He is attached to direct John Grisham novel Calico Joe to a family film adaption. In 2006, Kasdan received his first Golden Globe nomination for Walk Hard in the Best Original Song category (shared with John C Reilly, Judd Apatow, and Marshall Crenshaw), but lost to "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild (written by Eddie Vedder).
As a child, he made several appearances in his father"s movies such as The Big Chill and Silverado (in the former he is an autograph seeker at a funeral and in the latter a stable boy). In February 2015, Fox announced it had greenlit a pilot for the comedy The Grinder to be directed by Kasdan and starring Rob Lowe.
