Early Life
Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Orthodox Jewish parents Lena (Singer), who worked as an assistant in the family's store and was a volunteer for disabled veterans, and Theodore I. Grodin, who sold wholesale supplies. His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Russia, who came from a long line of rabbis and moved to Pittsburgh at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Grodin has an older brother, Jack.
Grodin attended the University of Miami, and left without graduating to pursue acting.
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