Eric Jacobson

Eric Jacobson is an American puppeteer best known as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal in The Muppets, and as Grover, Bert and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.

He began performing Miss Piggy in 2001 and Fozzie and Animal in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, roles previously performed by Frank Oz. His other characters include Sam Eagle and Guy Smiley, and he became the full-time performer of Oscar the Grouch after Caroll Spinney retired in 2018.

Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1971, he interned at the Jim Henson Company in 1992 while studying at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and joined Sesame Street in 1994, occasionally performing Grover and Bert when Frank Oz was unavailable.