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American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and improvisor Jeff Hiller is now trending after taking home the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 2025 Emmy Awards on Sunday, which was held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Hiller, who is married to visual artist and teacher Neil Goldberg, is best known for his role as Joel on the HBO dramedy series Somebody Somewhere, for which he won the Emmy.
“I feel like I’m gonna cry because the past 25 years I’ve been like, ‘World, I wanna be an actor,’ and the world’s like, ‘Maybe computers,’” the 49-year-old began his acceptance speech.
He continued by thanking HBO for “putting a show about sweaty, middle-aged people on the same network as the s*xy teens of Euphoria” and the writers of the show for creating something “about connecting and love in this time when compassion is seen as a weakness.”
Jeff Hiller gave a shoutout to his husband, Neil Goldberg, and family for “never laughing at me” and to his co-star Bridget Everett (who plays protagonist Sam Miller on Somebody Somewhere and is the show’s writer and executive producer) for changing his life and making him believe in himself.
Hiller beat the likes of Harrison Ford (for Shrinking), Ike Barinholtz (for The Studio), Colman Domingo (for The Four Seasons), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (for The Bear), Michael Urie (for Shrinking), and Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live) for the award.
All you need to know about Jeff Hiller’s husband
Jeff Hiller is married to visual artist and educator Neil Goldberg, and they currently reside in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, with their cat, Beveryly, and dog, Yvonne.
Goldberg is a Brown University graduate, holding a bachelor’s degree in history and computer science. According to his website, he creates videos, photos, mixed media, and performance art.
He has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of the City of New York, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the British Film Institute in London, the NGBK Kunstverein in Berlin, and El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City.
Neil has taught at the Yale School of Art since 2013 and was a resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015, where he now serves on the Board of Governors.
He has also been a visiting artist at various institutions, including Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts, NYU, Parsons, RISD, Brown University, and the MIT Media Lab.
Jeff Hiller’s husband is also involved with the interdisciplinary urban humanities programs funded by the Mellon Foundation at Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Washington University.
His artwork has been produced with grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Experimental Television Center, Harpo Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, Still Point Fund, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Siena Art Institute.
From 2016 to 2017, Neil Goldberg served as a mentor with Queer | Art | Mentorship, a network comprising an intergenerational and interdisciplinary group of LGBTQ+ artists. He has also supported the nonprofit Street Cry since 2018.
In September 2023, Jeff Hiller celebrated his life partner on his birthday on Instagram.
Exploring the life and career of Jeff Hiller
Jeff Hiller was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He is 49 years old and was born in December 1975. He was part of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in the early 2000s, where he performed improv comedy, and later taught the same for a decade.
The Texas Lutheran University alum has appeared in various television shows, such as Guiding Light, Ugly Betty, Psych, and Community, among others. His movie projects include Morning Glory and Ghost Town.
Jeff Hiller has acted in the rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in the role of Jack Quincy Adams, as well as Michael Urie’s 2018 production of Bright Colors and Bold Patterns off-Broadway and Silence, the musical rendition of Silence and the Lambs. He also appeared in the 2025 revival of the satirical comedy musical, Urinetown, as Mr. MacQueen.
In June 2025, Hiller’s memoir Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success was published. That same month, he also served as a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! He runs the all-gay improv troupe, Neely O’Hara. In 2022, Hiller won the Peabody Award for his role in Somebody Somewhere.
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The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards were hosted by Nate Bargatze and were streamed on CBS and Paramount. Before the ceremony, Jeff Hiller told The Hollywood Reporter that he was excited to be nominated for an Emmy for the first time.
He also spoke about The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa, a fellow debut nominee, praising her acting skills and thanking her for reaching out to him via Instagram. During his conversation with Access Online, Jeff shared that winning an Emmy was no different than winning American Idol.
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