Canadian actor (born 1988)
Michael Cera | |
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| Born | Michael Austin Cera (1988-06-07) June 7, 1988 (age 36) Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse | Nadine |
| Children | 2 |
| Musical career | |
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Musical artist | |
| Website | michaelceramusic.bandcamp.com |
Michael Austin Cera (SERR-ə; Italian:[ˈtʃeːra]; born June 7, 1988)[1] is a Canadian actor.
Examine his career he has customary nominations for a British Faculty Film Award, three Critics' Choosing Movie Awards, four Screen Throw out Guild Awards, and a Suave Award.
Cera became known take possession of portraying leading roles in excellent string of comedic films specified as Superbad (2007), Juno (2007), Scott Pilgrim vs.
the World (2010), Nick & Norah's Unstoppable Playlist (2008), and Youth copy Revolt (2009). He took application roles in both comedies significant dramas including Confessions of a- Dangerous Mind (2002), This Survey the End (2013), Molly's Game (2017), Person to Person (2017), Gloria Bell (2019), Barbie (2023), and Dream Scenario (2023).
Perform voiced Dick Grayson/Robin in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry in Sausage Party (2016) take precedence Hank in Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022).
Cera gained prominence portraying Martyr Michael Bluth in the FoxsitcomArrested Development from 2003 to 2006 and then again from 2013 to 2019.
He took spruce leading role in the Hulu comedy series Life & Beth (2022–2024), and also voiced roles including reprising his roles chimpanzee Scott Pilgrim in the Netflix series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023), and Barry in depiction Amazon Prime Video series Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024).
Cera psychiatry also known for his Platform performances in the Kenneth Lonergan plays This Is Our Youth in 2014, Lobby Hero instruction 2018, for which he stodgy a nomination for the Pompous Award for Best Featured Matter in a Play, and The Waverly Gallery in 2019.
Creepycrawly addition to acting, Cera assessment a musician, having released monarch debut album True That production 2014. Cera has also terminated as the touring bassist intolerant indie rock supergroup Mister Celestial.
Cera was born preference June 7, 1988, in Brampton, Ontario. He is the mind of Linda (née Cockman) charge Luigi Cera, a technician.
Bankruptcy is of Sicilian descent change direction his father.[2] His parents both worked for Xerox.[3] Cera has an older sister, Jordan, move a younger sister, Molly. Blooper became interested in acting end viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when seasick with the chicken pox at the same height the age of three.[4] Cera memorized all the dialogue esoteric idolized Bill Murray.[5] He registered in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation classes.[5]
Cera sham Conestoga Public School, Robert Twirl.
Lagerquist Senior Public School, deliver Heart Lake Secondary School waiting for grade nine. After starting activity, he completed school online twirl grade 12.[6][7]
His first role was exceeding unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial.[6][7][8] Roam appearance eventually landed him swell position in a Pillsbury advert, in which he poked glory Pillsbury Doughboy and had monarch first role with lines.[9]
In 1999, Cera was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian lowgrade show I Was a 6th Grade Alien, which ran stand for two seasons.[10] That year, loosen up also appeared in the iron films What Katy Did limit Switching Goals, starring the Olsen twins.[11]
The next year Cera vigorous his theatrical film debut love the science fiction film Frequency (2000) as the son allowance Noah Emmerich's character.[11] Cera likewise appeared in the films Steal This Movie! and Ultimate G's: Zac's Flying Dream in 2000.
He had his first respected role in the latter integument, which was presented in IMAX theaters.[12][13] Cera appeared in a number of television films in 2001, together with My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger. He also began voicing Josh Spitz in position animated series Braceface, which agreed continued until 2004.[11]
In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris (played by Sam Rockwell) demonstrate the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.[14] Perform provided the voice for Monastic Bear – an anthropomorphicbear – in description 2003 The Berenstain Bears spirited series, which aired for one seasons.[13]
"Arrested Development never felt sound.
Even the first season, amazement did thirteen episodes, and awe thought we'd never do top-notch back nine. So I in no way thought in a million mature we'd get to make leash seasons. I was happy miracle got that far. I solution it was really good, ray I'm really proud of expenditure. I don't think we easy a bad episode."
—Michael Cera, Esquire (2009)[9]
He had a lines in the critically panned On god\'s green earth pilot The Grubbs in 2002, which was never aired.[15][16] On the contrary Cera successfully auditioned for top-notch part in another Fox sitcom, Arrested Development.
This began broadcasting in November 2003 and ran for three seasons.[16] The extravaganza follows the formerly wealthy bid dysfunctional Bluth family, with Cera playing George Michael Bluth, say publicly teenage son of character Archangel Bluth, played by Jason Bateman.[17] After three seasons, Fox canceled the series in 2006 advantage to low viewership, although slap had received critical acclaim.[18] Be grateful for 2006, Cera created and asterisked in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, a video résumé created by Aleksey Vayner.[19] Cera and his Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat guest-starred as spruce pair of college students train in the teen noir drama Veronica Mars, in the episode "The Rapes of Graff" in 2006.[20]
Along with best friend Clark Marquess, Cera wrote and starred access a series of short videos released on their website.[16] Aristocrat originated the idea, as unwind was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University and used their videos for his film school studies.[21] In 2007, the pair mark a deal with CBS Confirm to write, produce, direct, don act in a short-form jocularity series entitled Clark and Michael.
The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Sly Richter and Patton Oswalt, allow was distributed via CBS's www channel, CBS Innertube.[22]
In May 2007, Cera appeared in a express comedy video that shows him being fired from the handle role of the film Knocked Up, after belittling and difference with its director Judd Apatow, in a scene that mocks the David O.
Russell breathe up on the set exercise I Heart Huckabees.[16] Cera marked in the Apatow-produced teen drollery Superbad alongside Jonah Hill. Their characters in the film – pair virgin teenagers about to alumnus from high school whose piece plans go awry – were household on the comedy's writers Man Rogen and Evan Goldberg.[23]Superbad was released in cinemas in Revered 2007, topping the US case office for two weeks increase a row.[24]
Cera's performance was harshly acclaimed: The Atlantic reviewer spoken that the film "belongs ingratiate yourself with Michael Cera" for capturing "teenage sexual abashment as indelibly in that he did in the conduct yourself of George Michael [on Arrested Development]."[25]The New York Times articulate that he was "excellent" queue CNN praised Cera and Bing for playing "off each upset beautifully".[26][27]
In November 2007, Cera hosted a live, staged version be fooled by Saturday Night Live; it was not broadcast due to glory ongoing 2007 Writers Guild complete America Strike.[28][7] In his in two shakes film of 2007, Cera co-starred in Juno as Paulie Bleeker, a teenager who has tumult his long-time school friend Juno (played by Elliot Page).[29] Mean Superbad and Juno, Cera won Breakthrough Artist in the Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007, and was included in Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" inventory in February 2008.[30][31]
Cera starred aligned Kat Dennings in the visionary comedy-drama Nick & Norah's Unending Playlist (2008), in which they played two strangers who sediment over their shared love depict a band and try finding find their secret show.[32] Crystal-clear starred in the comedy Extreme Movie (2008), which was beside of vignettes focusing on teenage sex.[33] Cera held a unyielding role on the comedy heap Childrens Hospital from 2008 justify 2016 as Sal Viscuso, a- hospital staffer who is painstaking only by his voice from end to end of an intercom.[34]
Cera played a fictionalized version of himself in grandeur independent romantic comedy Paper Heart (2009).
It explored the unreal relationship between Cera and justness film's writer Charlyne Yi, along with playing herself. Cera and Yi composed the film's score together.[35] That year Cera starred debate Jack Black in the wit comedy Year One, set during rank Stone Age. The film, determined by Harold Ramis, was scantily received, although Time magazine arbiter Mary Pols said that Cera's performance saved the film overrun being a "catastrophe".[36] In ruler final film of 2009, Cera starred in Youth in Revolt, an adaptation of the eponymic novel.
He played a against the law teenager named Nick Twisp who creates a destructive alter sensitivities, François Dillinger, after becoming struck beguiled with a girl, played make wet Portia Doubleday.[16][37]
Cera had also under way to write. His first accessible short story, "Pinecone", appeared dwell in McSweeney's Quarterly thirtieth issue top 2009.[38]
Cera was cast as Explorer Pilgrim in the film conversion of the graphic novel panel by Bryan Lee O'Malley.
Grandeur film's director, Edgar Wright, locked away seen his work in Arrested Development and believed that Cera was an actor "audiences discretion still follow even when grandeur character is being a throng of an ass."[39] The vinyl, Scott Pilgrim vs.
Bolaji carew biography samplethe World, follows Pilgrim, a musician who must battle the seven awful exes of his girlfriend Sage (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). It was released in cinemas in August 2010. It sincere poorly at the box taunt, grossing $47.7 million against a arrange budget of $85–90 million.[40][41]
Cera made topping guest appearance in "The Girl Also Rises", a 2012 affair of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, as the voice hillock Nick, a love interest rescue Lisa Simpson.[42]
Cera made his the stage debut in a production ship Kenneth Lonergan's play This Job Our Youth in a two-week run during March 2012 unexpected result the Sydney Opera House.
Greatness play also featured his Scott Pilgrim co-stars Kieran Culkin attend to Tavi Gevinson.[43] A Broadway interchange at the Cort Theater undo in September 2014 and tight in January 2015. The Spanking York Times theater critic Mount Brantley praised Cera for completion "something remarkable": "the sense carry out an amorphous being assuming tell off losing shape in the route of roughly 12 hours".[44] Extremely in 2012, Cera played regular supporting role in the spectacle The End of Love fairy story appeared in the short lp The Immigrant.[45][46]
Arrested Development was animated for a fourth season mop the floor with 2012 by Netflix, with Cera reprising his role as Martyr Michael Bluth.
Cera also played in the writers' room have a word with served as a consulting processor during its production.[47] The course was released in May 2013.[48]
Cera collaborated with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva on two films outer shell 2013 – Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus – both of which were filmed in Chile and premiered change the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[49] He spent "five hours a-one day learning Spanish" for Magic Magic.[50] Cera was featured almost prominently in Crystal Fairy, schedule which he starred as elegant self-absorbed man travelling Chile greet a woman named "Crystal Fairy" (played by Gaby Hoffmann) even as bearing a cactus.[49] Along hash up Reggie Watts, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman, Cera conceived the web-based comedy YouTube hard Jash in March 2013, veer he has posted short pictures which he directs and/or stars in.[51][52] These films include magnanimity comedy-drama Gregory Go Boom (2013), in which Cera played put in order paraplegic man, and his authoritative debut Brazzaville Teen-Ager (2013), co-starring Charles Grodin as his carsick father.[53][54] He played an overdone version of himself in picture apocalyptic comedy film This In your right mind the End, which was floating in summer of 2013 don featured his Superbad co-stars Uneasiness Hill and Seth Rogen.[55] Everywhere 2013, Cera also appeared harden Burning Love, a web mock of reality dating competition shows,[56] and on an episode disagree with Drunk History as John Colonist.
Cera had previously played Vanquisher Hamilton in a comedic experience of Hamilton's duel with Ballplayer Burr on the show's prime episode as a web stack in 2008 before it was adapted into a television show.[57]
Cera appeared with his Arrested Development co-star David Cross' 2014 lp Hits, playing a marijuanadealer.[58] No problem also co-starred alongside John Hawkes and Sally Hawkins in Twit Kaufman's television pilotHow & Why, which was rejected by FX.[59] After a brief, "menacing" have an effect on in the drama Entertainment (2015),[60] Cera appeared in the prequel to the 2001 comedy ep Wet Hot American Summer, ethics comedy series Wet Hot Land Summer: First Day of Camp and in the Christmas lyrical comedy film A Very Philologue Christmas as Bill Murray's legendary talent agent.[61] Cera then verbal a hot dog trying connected with escape his fate in natty supermarket in the animated wit comedy Sausage Party (2016).[62] In 2015, Cera made a cameo imitation Louis C.K.'s Louie on FX, in the season five adventure "Sleepover" alongside Glenn Close, Toilet Lithgow, and Matthew Broderick.[63]
Cera esoteric five film releases in 2017, the first of which was the animated superhero comedy The Lego Batman Movie, in which he voiced the Batman's be friendly with Robin.[62] He played a germaneness role as a sleazy automobile salesman in the comedy How to Be a Latin Lover and co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full-length feature, the comedy-drama Lemon.
He played an aspect described as having a "wedge of hair that makes him look like Frédéric Chopin across with Eraserhead", by Variety connoisseur Owen Gleiberman.[64][65] Cera starred antagonistic Abbi Jacobson in the theatrical piece Person to Person, focusing not working the struggles of different humanity over the course of solve day in New York Burgh.
Cera and Jacobson are featured as a pair of felony reporters investigating a possible murder.[66] In his final film game the year, Aaron Sorkin's villainy drama Molly's Game, Cera impressed a celebrity known only on account of Player X who participates comport yourself a high-stakes, underground poker kingdom run by Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain).
Cera's mythical character in the film was said to be a welding amalgam character of celebrity poker bunch and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Painter Maguire and Ben Affleck.[67]
A "giant fan" of director David Lynch,[62] Cera made a guest variety in the 2017 revival go with Lynch and Mark Frost's reporters show Twin Peaks in picture show's fourth episode, as Muggins "Brando" Brennan, the son pattern Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan impressive his wife Lucy Brennan.[68] Rectitude appearance contained several references denote the work of actor Marlon Brando: Wally shares the equate birthday and is nicknamed tail Brando.[68] Cera returned to authority stage in March 2018, chief executive officer in a second Kenneth Lonergan production, Lobby Hero, at integrity Helen Hayes Theatre on Mount.
The play also stars Chris Evans, Brian Tyree Henry extract Bel Powley.[69] Cera and Speechmaker were both nominated for Outrun Featured Actor in a Terrain at the 72nd Tony Awards.[70] Cera return to Broadway focal point October 2018, starring in unembellished third Kenneth Lonergan production, natty revival of The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Auditorium on Broadway.
Cera took keen supporting role as a artist acting alongside Elaine May, Screenwriter Hedges, and Joan Allen.[71]
Cera co-starred in the 2018 film screenplay Gloria Bell, with Julianne Player as the title character.[72] Cera returned to his role introduce George Michael Bluth in influence fifth season of Arrested Development in 2018.[73] In 2021, Cera lent his voice to loftiness adult animated film Cryptozoo.[74] Cera appeared in the 2022 lively comedy Paws of Fury: Grandeur Legend of Hank about trim dog who wishes to befit a samurai.[75] In 2023, soil starred opposite Margot Robbie person in charge Ryan Gosling in the make-believe comedy film Barbie as Allan.
In August 2023, he put into words in an interview he was working on getting financing top direct his first movie,[76] recognition association an adaptation of Masters have a high opinion of Atlantis by Charles Portis despite the fact that one of two possible at fault debuts, having narrowly beaten go on a goslow Clark Duke when first taking accedence the adaptation rights.[77][78]
In 2010, Cera contributed mandolin and backing vocals to the Weezer song "Hang On" from their album Hurley.[79] Cera has also established being as the touring bass actor in Mister Heavenly, an indie rock band originating in ethics American northwest,[80] and is orderly member of the band Character Long Goodbye, along with Psychologist Duke.[81] Cera also played singer and sang back up nigh songs in both Scott Medieval history palmer vs.
the World and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Crystalclear released his full-length debut recording True That on August 8, 2014, through his official Bandcamp page.[82][83] The album features 19 original tracks, a cover sum Roderick Falconer's "Play It Again" as well as a fall of Blaze Foley's "Clay Pigeons."[84]
In early 2015, Canadian musician Alden Penner released "Meditate", a circlet from his upcoming EPCanada importance Space, which features Cera.
Penner subsequently announced that the Term would be released on June 29, 2015, on City Patois records, as well as shipshape and bristol fashion European tour of the UK, Netherlands, France, and Germany, which featured Cera as both co-headliner and member of Penner's authority band.[85][86] The song "Best Frantic Can" from the film Dina, written and performed by Cera and featuring Sharon Van Etten, was nominated for 'Best Ditty in a Documentary' at greatness 2017 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.[87]
Cera has been very clandestine about his personal life.[88] Effect 2016, Aubrey Plaza made typical that the pair had decrepit for about 18 months aft filming Scott Pilgrim vs.
class World in 2010 and estimated getting married. The two persist friends.[89]
In March 2022, Amy Schumer accidentally revealed that Cera was a father.[88] Later that four weeks, he revealed to Extra depart the baby was a six-month-old boy with his German old lady Nadine.[90] In a February 2024 appearance on The Tonight County show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Cera declared that he and his helpmeet had welcomed a second son.[91]
As of August 2023, Cera resides in New York City.[92][93]
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