How Old Is Jamie Hyneman? Jamie Hyneman Birthday
Jamie Hyneman was born on September 25, 1956 and is 67 years old now.
Birthday: September 25, 1956
How Old - Age: 67
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Jamie Hyneman - Biography
James Franklin "Jamie" Hyneman (born September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert and the co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed. He is known among Robot Wars devotees for his robot entry, Blendo, which, for a time, was deemed too dangerous for entry in the competition. He is one of the designers of the aerial robotic camera system Wavecam, used in sports and entertainment events.
He received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Villanova University. On November 25, 2011, Hyneman was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) for his role in the popularization of science and technology. In February 2017 he was named one of the 14 new Honorary Doctors of technology by Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. He received the doctorate in June 2017.
Much of the experience that Hyneman used on MythBusters came from his time in the visual and special effects professions. He broke into the effects industry in the mid-1980s as an uncredited special effects crew member on Top Gun. From there, he spent time as an animatronics technician for films such as Naked Lunch and Flubber, as well as doing work on the second and third installments of the Matrix Trilogy.
In 1984, Hyneman met science teacher Eileen Walsh when he owned a sailboat diving charter business in the Virgin Islands. Hyneman is a skeptic and an atheist.
