<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official site </Td> </Tr> <P> Jason Edward Mewes (born June 12, 1974) is an American television and film actor, film producer and internet radio show host . He has played Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films . </P> <P> Mewes was born on June 12, 1974 in Highlands, New Jersey, and grew up in a working - class neighborhood . He never knew his father, and his mother was an ex-con and a drug addict . Relates Mewes: "She used to check into hotels and take TVs and sell them...I guess it really ain't funny, but it's weird because it was so fucked up...She used to steal mail . I used to drive around with her and she'd pull up and make me reach into mailboxes . It really wasn't pleasant ." Although this exposure to drugs at first served to make him averse to them, he eventually began using them after graduating from high school . </P>

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