Jay Chandrasekhar is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on April 9, 1968 in Hinsdale, Illinois, United States. A member of the comedy group Broken Lizard, he directed and starred in the films Beerfest, Super Troopers and Club Dread.
He directed Olivia Munn in the 2012 comedy The Babymakers.
Chandrasekhar began making shorts featuring the troupe, then made the self-funded movie Puddle Cruiser in 1996. The film made it into the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. Then in 2001, they made Super Troopers as an independent movie, which Harvey Weinstein helped to develop at Miramax Films, but did not end up distributing.
Chandrasekhar has been married to actress Susan Clarke since 2005. They have three children, an older son and twin daughters. Chandrasekhar’s middle name, Jambulingam, is in honor of his grandfather, and is also his son Will’s middle name. During an interview with Stephen Colbert in 2017, Chandrasekhar stated that the name Jambulingam translates literally in English as “large penis,” however, it is intended “as a euphemism for power” in reference to the Hindu deity Shiva.
He married Susan Clarke in 2005.
