Eric Jacobson

Eric Jacobson
Jacobson puppeteering Grover in 2008
Born	Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Puppeteer
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Mary Jacobson

Eric Jacobson is an American puppeteer, best known for performing the Muppet characters Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam the Eagle for Disney's The Muppets Studio, as well as Sesame Street characters Bert, Guy Smiley and Grover—all roles that he inherited from the characters' original performer, Frank Oz.^[1] As of 2015, Jacobson is now Caroll Spinney's understudy for Oscar the Grouch.

Career

Jacobson, a native of Fort Worth, initially started playing Bert and Grover on Sesame Street in 1998, and officially joined the cast of the classic Muppet Show Muppets in 2001. His role expanded on Sesame Street in 2002 to include new Grover segments, particularly Global Grover. However, Oz occasionally came in to Sesame Street to record new material with those characters.

In 2001, the same year that he worked on The Book of Pooh, where he worked on Piglet and Kanga, he also began playing Miss Piggy, debuting at the "Muppetfest" convention.^[2] Subsequently, in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002), he performed the roles of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005), he began performing Sam the Eagle.

Jacobson has appeared in numerous other television shows and movies as well.

Credits

References

External links

• Eric Jacobson on IMDb
• Bunnytown