Jason Mewes

Jason Mewes is, to me, the chaotic heart of Kevin Smith's whole universe. As Jay, the loud half of Jay and Silent Bob, he turned a foul-mouthed Jersey kid into a genuinely lovable cult icon, and that balance of crudeness and charm is harder to pull off than it looks. I like that he never stopped at acting; producing, directing, and his podcasting all show a restless, scrappy creativity. But what really gets me is the loyalty: decades of building work alongside the same hometown friend. He is not a marquee star, and that outsider, king-of-the-cult status suits him perfectly.

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Name (English)

Jason Mewes

Name (Japanese)

ジェイソン・ミューズ

Reading

じぇいそん・みゅーず

Born

June 12, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Highlands, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / film producer / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

High school

Henry Hudson Regional High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jaymewes/
• Xhttps://x.com/JayMewes
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Mewes
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316627

Tags

• New Jersey
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.