Newsom was born in North Caldwell, New Jersey to a mother who managed an employment agency and an investor father.David Newsom Biography ((?)-) He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer/director Sian Heder, with whom he has two children. Newsom has a degree in film production from Ithaca College. He has worked in the past as a band singer, alternative newspaper editor, writer, waiter, delivery man, blasting worker, beer bottler, fence installer, dish washer, and in film production as well as set construction.
