- Born
- Height1.83 m
- Jeff Pomerantz attended Northwestern University, volunteered to serve in the US Infantry during the Viet Nam era and graduated from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He subsequently studied with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg who invited him to work at the Actors Studio.
He has had an extremely varied career which has included performing on Broadway and off with stellar actors such as Jeff Daniels, Dianne Wiest, Richard Dreyfuss, and Richard Burton to name only a few. He has done a great variety of film and TV, starring for years on daytime dramas while performing nightly on and off Broadway.
For over 28 years he has performed in literally thousands of venues world over doing what has been basically a one man improvisational show promoting human rights and social betterment activities.
He founded Hollywood Says No to Drugs in 1986, gaining support on an individual basis from people as varied as Lord Laurence Olivier and civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Having successfully elicited help on an individual basis from scores of celebrities, he eventually wound up at the White House and has virtually never stopped. Along the way he met with Presidents (Ronald Reagan) and Princesses (Princess Di and Princess Christina of Denmark), Prime Ministers, military leaders, etc. While raising funds for black education, he stayed in every black township in South Africa...during Apartheid. He has spoken at the United Nations in Geneva, and was the Moderator of the White House Conference For A Drug Free America.
In addition to his long list of credits Jeff has been a prolific Voice Over artist over the past 25 years.- IMDb mini biography by: Jonathan Otun
- SpousesNancy A. Kemm(November 15, 1985 - ?)Sharon Clark(January 18, 1983 - ?) (divorced)Barbara B(1967 - 1971) (divorced)
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- As a result of his anti-drug work with Native Americans, he was adopted by the Medicine Man and Chief of the Otoe Missouria nation, and was honored by being given a Native American name. The name, Neeneeska, or "White Smoke" (smoke signals) translates to "He who communicates.".
- While raising funds for black education in South Africa during the apartheid era, he stayed in every major black township in South Africa.
- As the Founder of "Hollywood Says No to Drugs", was the guest of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan at the White House and Moderator of the White House Conference for a Drug Free America in 1986.
- Graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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