Cast & creator
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil deGrasse Tyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Neil deGrasse Tyson Ph.D., Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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1974–2026 · acting roles
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Simpsons
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
Family Guy
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
1999
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
The View
Self
1997The View
Self - Guest
1997
The Colbert Report
Self
2005The Colbert Report
Self (uncredited)
2005
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Regular Show
Self (voice)
2010
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2013
Futurama
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
1999
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self - Guest
2014
NOVA
Self - Host
1974NOVA
Self - Narrator
1974
BoJack Horseman
Planetarium Narrator (voice)
2014
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
Self - Guest
2013
Hot Ones
Self
2015
Stargate Atlantis
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2004
The Big Bang Theory
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2007
Gravity Falls
Waddles' Machine (voice)
2012
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2026
MythBusters
Self
2003
Last Meals
Self
2021
Celebrity Family Feud
Self
2015
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
2018
Chelsea
Self
2016
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Self - Contestant
2021
Q&A
Self - Panellist
2008
Match Game
Self - Panelist
2016
Miles from Tomorrowland
Main Title Narration (voice)
2015
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2016
Ice Age: Collision Course
Neil deBuck Weasel (voice)
2016
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
2019
Cosmos
Self - Host
2014
Pantheon
Dr. Moore (voice)
2022
Velma
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
2023
Bill Nye Saves the World
Self - Voice of Coffee Maker (voice)
2017
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Self
2022
Jay Leno's Garage
Self
2015
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self - Host
2015StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Creator
2015
Celebrity Jeopardy!
Self - Contestant
2022
Grave Conversations
Self
2024
Zoolander 2
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2016
NOVA scienceNOW
Host
2005
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Self
2017
UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
Self - Director, Hayden Planetarium
2023
Retro Tech
Self - Astrophysicist, Planetary Scientist & Author
2019
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
Merlin
2018
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
2021
This Is Me…Now
Taurus
2024
Could You Survive the Movies?
Self
2019
For the Love of Spock
Self
2016
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Self
2024
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Self
2023
Scrat: Spaced Out
Narrator
2016
The Truth Is in the Stars
Self
2017
MARS: Inside SpaceX
Self
2018
Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness
Self
2026
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
Self
2017
Bill Nye: Science Guy
Self
2017
Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson
Self
2017
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
Self - Narrator (archive sound)
2019
Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography
Self
2022
Hubble's Cosmic Journey
Narrator (voice)
2015
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
Self
2012
Dark Universe
Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY
Himself
2026
The Reality of Me
Self
2012
Lazer Team
Self
2016
Hot Sugar's Cold World
Self
2015
The Mars Generation
Self
2017
Logic's Everybody Documentary
Self
2017
Gracie
Self
Last Days on Earth
Self
2006
Woman in Motion
Self
2021
Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone
Self
2024
13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses
2024
Black Hole Apocalypse
Self
2018
Food Evolution
Narrator
2017
Future '38
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2017
Where Did We Come From?
Self
2011
MiP: The Journey Across the Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
2024
Fight For Space
Self
2016
400 Years of the Telescope
Narrator (voice)
2009
How Life Began
Self
2009
Shot in the Arm
Executive Producer
2023
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Conspiracy Theories & Skepticism
Self
Turning Point
Self
2018
The Atheist Delusion
Self (archive footage)
2016Nova: Monster Of The Milky Way
Self
2006
The Boundary
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2017
Fortitude: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy
Self
2024
The Simulation Hypothesis
Self
2015
Einstein
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2008
Unfolding Universe
Self
2002Origins
Narrator
2004