Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Known for
Acting
Born
October 5, 1958 (age 68)
Birthplace
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil deGrasse Tyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Photos

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Filmography

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Conspiracy Theories & Skepticism poster

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Conspiracy Theories & Skepticism

Movie · as Self

2026
Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness poster

Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness

Movie · as Self

2026
FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY poster

FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY

Movie · as Himself

2026
The Good Life

The Good Life

Movie · as Self

2026
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe poster

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 ep

2026
Hot Ones: Game Night poster

Hot Ones: Game Night

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2024
MiP: The Journey Across the Universe poster

MiP: The Journey Across the Universe

Movie · as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)

2024
This Is Me…Now poster

This Is Me…Now

Movie · as Taurus

2024
The Greatest Love Story Never Told poster

The Greatest Love Story Never Told

Movie · as Self

2024
Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone poster

Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone

Movie · as Self

2024
Fortitude: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy poster

Fortitude: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy

Movie · as Self

2024
13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses poster

13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses

Movie

2024
Grave Conversations poster

Grave Conversations

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2023
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life poster

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

Movie · as Self

2023
Velma poster

Velma

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice) · 1 ep

2023
UFOs: Investigating the Unknown poster

UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

TV · as Self - Director, Hayden Planetarium · 1 ep

2022
Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography poster

Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography

Movie · as Self

2022
Pantheon poster

Pantheon

TV · as Dr. Moore (voice) · 1 ep

2022
Sherri poster

Sherri

TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

2022
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? poster

Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2022
Celebrity Jeopardy! poster

Celebrity Jeopardy!

TV · as Self - Contestant · 1 ep

2021
Woman in Motion poster

Woman in Motion

Movie · as Self

2021
This Is Pop poster

This Is Pop

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune poster

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

TV · as Self - Contestant · 1 ep

2021
Last Meals poster

Last Meals

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2019
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time poster

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

Movie · as Self - Narrator (archive sound)

2019
Retro Tech poster

Retro Tech

TV · as Self - Astrophysicist, Planetary Scientist & Author · 1 ep

2019
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? poster

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice) · 1 ep

2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show poster

The Kelly Clarkson Show

TV · as Self · 2 eps

2019
Could You Survive the Movies? poster

Could You Survive the Movies?

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2018
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time poster

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time

Movie · as Merlin

2018
MARS: Inside SpaceX poster

MARS: Inside SpaceX

Movie · as Self

2018
Black Hole Apocalypse poster

Black Hole Apocalypse

Movie · as Self

2018
Turning Point poster

Turning Point

Movie · as Self

2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover poster

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2017
Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson poster

Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson

Movie · as Self

2017
Food Evolution poster

Food Evolution

Movie · as Narrator

2017
Logic's Everybody Documentary poster

Logic's Everybody Documentary

Movie · as Self

2017
The Mars Generation poster

The Mars Generation

Movie · as Self

2017
The Truth Is in the Stars poster

The Truth Is in the Stars

Movie · as Self

2017
Bill Nye: Science Guy poster

Bill Nye: Science Guy

Movie · as Self

2017
The Boundary poster

The Boundary

Movie · as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2017
Katy Perry:  Will You Be My Witness? poster

Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?

Movie · as Self

2017
Future '38 poster

Future '38

Movie · as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2017
Talking with Chris Hardwick poster

Talking with Chris Hardwick

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2017
Bill Nye Saves the World poster

Bill Nye Saves the World

TV · as Self - Voice of Coffee Maker (voice) · 1 ep

2016
Ice Age: Collision Course poster

Ice Age: Collision Course

Movie · as Neil deBuck Weasel (voice)

2016
Zoolander 2 poster

Zoolander 2

Movie · as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice poster

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Movie · as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2016
For the Love of Spock poster

For the Love of Spock

Movie · as Self

2016
Scrat: Spaced Out poster

Scrat: Spaced Out

Movie · as Narrator

2016
Fight For Space poster

Fight For Space

Movie · as Self

2016
The Atheist Delusion poster

The Atheist Delusion

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2016
Lazer Team poster

Lazer Team

Movie · as Self

2016
Chelsea poster

Chelsea

TV · as Self · 2 eps

2016
Match Game poster

Match Game

TV · as Self - Panelist · 2 eps

2016
The $100,000 Pyramid poster

The $100,000 Pyramid

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2015
Hot Sugar's Cold World poster

Hot Sugar's Cold World

Movie · as Self

2015
Hubble's Cosmic Journey poster

Hubble's Cosmic Journey

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2015
The Simulation Hypothesis poster

The Simulation Hypothesis

Movie · as Self

2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

TV · as Self - Guest · 12 eps

2015
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson poster

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

TV · as Self - Host · 76 eps

2015
Hot Ones poster

Hot Ones

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2015
Celebrity Family Feud poster

Celebrity Family Feud

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2015
Miles from Tomorrowland poster

Miles from Tomorrowland

TV · as Main Title Narration (voice) · 39 eps

2015
Jay Leno's Garage poster

Jay Leno's Garage

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden poster

The Late Late Show with James Corden

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2014
Cosmos poster

Cosmos

TV · as Self - Host · 26 eps

2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers poster

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2014
BoJack Horseman poster

BoJack Horseman

TV · as Planetarium Narrator (voice) · 1 ep

2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver poster

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2013
Dark Universe poster

Dark Universe

Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

2013
@midnight with Chris Hardwick poster

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2013
Brooklyn Nine-Nine poster

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 ep

2012
The Reality of Me poster

The Reality of Me

Movie · as Self

2012
Gravity Falls poster

Gravity Falls

TV · as Waddles' Machine (voice) · 1 ep

2012
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries poster

The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

TV · as Self · 6 eps

2011
Where Did We Come From? poster

Where Did We Come From?

Movie · as Self

2010
Regular Show poster

Regular Show

TV · as Self (voice) · 1 ep

2009
400 Years of the Telescope poster

400 Years of the Telescope

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2009
How Life Began poster

How Life Began

Movie · as Self

2009
The Joe Rogan Experience poster

The Joe Rogan Experience

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2008
Einstein poster

Einstein

Movie · as Neil deGrasse Tyson

2008
Q&A poster

Q&A

TV · as Self - Panellist · 1 ep

2007
The Big Bang Theory poster

The Big Bang Theory

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson · 2 eps

2006
Last Days on Earth poster

Last Days on Earth

Movie · as Self

2006
Nova: Monster Of The Milky Way

Nova: Monster Of The Milky Way

Movie · as Self

2005
The Colbert Report poster

The Colbert Report

TV · as Self, Self (uncredited) · 2 eps

2005
NOVA scienceNOW poster

NOVA scienceNOW

TV · as Host · 29 eps

2004
Origins

Origins

Movie · as Narrator

2004
Stargate Atlantis poster

Stargate Atlantis

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 ep

2003
MythBusters poster

MythBusters

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2003
Real Time with Bill Maher poster

Real Time with Bill Maher

TV · as Self · 14 eps

2002
Unfolding Universe poster

Unfolding Universe

Movie · as Self

1999
Family Guy poster

Family Guy

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice) · 2 eps

1999
Futurama poster

Futurama

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice) · 1 ep

1997
The View poster

The View

TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 4 eps

1996
The Daily Show poster

The Daily Show

TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

1989
The Simpsons poster

The Simpsons

TV · as Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice) · 1 ep

1974
NOVA poster

NOVA

TV · as Self - Host, Self - Narrator · 5 eps