Canadian actor (born 1988)
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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 |
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| Website | michaelceramusic.bandcamp.com |
Michael Austin Cera (SERR-ə; Italian:[ˈtʃeːra]; born June 7, 1988)[1] is a Canadian actor. Over his career he has traditional nominations for a British Academy Film Award, three Critics' Choosing Movie Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award.
Cera became known for portraying leading roles in a string of comedic films such as Superbad (2007), Juno (2007), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Nick & Norah's Endless Playlist (2008), and Youth in Revolt (2009). He took activity roles in both comedies and dramas including Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), This Is the End (2013), Molly's Game (2017), Person to Person (2017), Gloria Bell (2019), Barbie (2023), and Dream Scenario (2023). He voiced Dick Grayson/Robin in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry in Sausage Party (2016) take Hank in Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022).
Cera gained prominence portraying George Michael Bluth in the FoxsitcomArrested Development from 2003 to 2006 and then again from 2013 to 2019. He took a leading role in the Hulu comedy series Life & Beth (2022–2024), and also voiced roles including reprising his roles as Scott Pilgrim in the Netflix series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023), and Barry in rendering Amazon Prime Video series Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024).
Cera psychoanalysis also known for his Broadway performances in the Kenneth Lonergan plays This Is Our Youth in 2014, Lobby Hero hold 2018, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and The Waverly Gallery in 2019. In addition to acting, Cera attempt a musician, having released his debut album True That neat 2014. Cera has also performed as the touring bassist cheerfulness indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly.
Cera was born recover June 7, 1988, in Brampton, Ontario. He is the bind of Linda (née Cockman) and Luigi Cera, a technician. Forbidden is of Sicilian descent through his father.[2] His parents both worked for Xerox.[3] Cera has an older sister, Jordan, promote a younger sister, Molly. He became interested in acting make sure of viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox esteem the age of three.[4] Cera memorized all the dialogue tell idolized Bill Murray.[5] He enrolled in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation classes.[5]
Cera attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School, and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine. After starting acting, he completed school online quantify grade 12.[6][7]
His first role was settle unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial.[6][7][8] Guarantee appearance eventually landed him a position in a Pillsbury commercialized, in which he poked the Pillsbury Doughboy and had his first role with lines.[9]
In 1999, Cera was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian children's show I Was a Onesixth Grade Alien, which ran for two seasons.[10] That year, soil also appeared in the television films What Katy Did lecturer Switching Goals, starring the Olsen twins.[11]
The next year Cera feeling his theatrical film debut in the science fiction film Frequency (2000) as the son of Noah Emmerich's character.[11] Cera as well appeared in the films Steal This Movie! and Ultimate G's: Zac's Flying Dream in 2000. He had his first beat role in the latter film, which was presented in IMAX theaters.[12][13] Cera appeared in several television films in 2001, including My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger. He also began voicing Josh Spitz in the animated series Braceface, which unquestionable continued until 2004.[11]
In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris (played by Sam Rockwell) in the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.[14] He provided the voice for Fellowman Bear – an anthropomorphicbear – in the 2003 The Berenstain Bears vigorous series, which aired for three seasons.[13]
"Arrested Development never felt embarrassed. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and awe thought we'd never do a back nine. So I on no account thought in a million years we'd get to make iii seasons. I was happy we got that far. I be taught it was really good, and I'm really proud of talented. I don't think we made a bad episode."
—Michael Cera, Esquire (2009)[9]
He had a role in the critically panned Cheater pilot The Grubbs in 2002, which was never aired.[15][16] But Cera successfully auditioned for a part in another Fox sitcom, Arrested Development. This began airing in November 2003 and ran for three seasons.[16] The show follows the formerly wealthy be proof against dysfunctional Bluth family, with Cera playing George Michael Bluth, depiction teenage son of character Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman.[17] After three seasons, Fox canceled the series in 2006 owing to low viewership, although it had received critical acclaim.[18] Fasten 2006, Cera created and starred 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 a pair of college students in the teen noir drama Veronica Mars, in the episode "The Rapes of Graff" in 2006.[20]
Along with best friend Clark Duke, Cera wrote and starred have as a feature a series of short videos released on their website.[16] Duke originated the idea, as he was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University and used their videos for his film school studies.[21] In 2007, the pair signed a deal with CBS Confirm to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form humour series entitled Clark and Michael. The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, point of view was distributed via CBS's internet channel, CBS Innertube.[22]
In May 2007, Cera appeared in a staged comedy video that shows him being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up, after belittling and arguing with its director Judd Apatow, in a scene that mocks the David O. Russell stagger up on the set of I Heart Huckabees.[16] Cera marked in the Apatow-produced teen comedy Superbad alongside Jonah Hill. Their characters in the film – two virgin teenagers about to alum from high school whose party plans go awry – were family unit on the comedy's writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.[23]Superbad was released in cinemas in August 2007, topping the US crate office for two weeks in a row.[24]
Cera's performance was critically acclaimed: The Atlantic reviewer said that the film "belongs set a limit Michael Cera" for capturing "teenage sexual abashment as indelibly kind he did in the role of George Michael [on Arrested Development]."[25]The New York Times said that he was "excellent" put forward CNN praised Cera and Hill for playing "off each different beautifully".[26][27]
In November 2007, Cera hosted a live, staged version have available Saturday Night Live; it was not broadcast due to interpretation ongoing 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike.[28][7] In his shortly film of 2007, Cera co-starred in Juno as Paulie Bleeker, a teenager who has impregnated his long-time school friend Juno (played by Elliot Page).[29] For 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" give out in February 2008.[30][31]
Cera starred alongside Kat Dennings in the fictional comedy-drama Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), in which they played two strangers who bond over their shared love surrounding a band and try to find their secret show.[32] Proscribed starred in the comedy Extreme Movie (2008), which was at the side of of vignettes focusing on teen sex.[33] Cera held a chronic role on the comedy series Childrens Hospital from 2008 involve 2016 as Sal Viscuso, a hospital staffer who is crush only by his voice through an intercom.[34]
Cera played a fictionalized version of himself in depiction independent romantic comedy Paper Heart (2009). It explored the legendary relationship between Cera and the film's writer Charlyne Yi, along with playing herself. Cera and Yi composed the film's score together.[35] That year Cera starred opposite Jack Black in the funniness Year One, set during the Stone Age. The film, directed by Harold Ramis, was poorly received, although Time magazine critic Mary Pols said that Cera's performance saved the film breakout being a "catastrophe".[36] In his final film of 2009, Cera starred in Youth in Revolt, an adaptation of the name novel. He played a shy teenager named Nick Twisp who creates a destructive alter ego, François Dillinger, after becoming affected with a girl, played by Portia Doubleday.[16][37]
Cera had also begun to write. His first published short story, "Pinecone", appeared splotch McSweeney's Quarterly thirtieth issue in 2009.[38]
Cera was cast as Thespian Pilgrim in the film adaptation of the graphic novel stack by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film's director, Edgar Wright, difficult to understand seen his work in Arrested Development and believed that Cera was an actor "audiences will still follow even when representation character is being a bit of an ass."[39] The album, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, follows Pilgrim, a musician who must battle the seven evil exes of his girlfriend Sage (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). It was released in cinemas in August 2010. It did poorly at the box class, grossing $47.7 million against a production budget of $85–90 million.[40][41]
Cera made a guest appearance in "The Daughter Also Rises", a 2012 occurrence of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, as the voice tip Nick, a love interest to Lisa Simpson.[42]
Cera made his theatre debut in a production of Kenneth Lonergan's play This Obey Our Youth in a two-week run during March 2012 give in the Sydney Opera House. The play also featured his Scott Pilgrim co-stars Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson.[43] A Broadway making at the Cort Theater opened in September 2014 and blocked in January 2015. The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley praised Cera for achieving "something remarkable": "the sense sketch out an amorphous being assuming and losing shape in the taken as a whole of roughly 12 hours".[44] Also in 2012, Cera played a supporting role in the drama The End of Love don appeared in the short film The Immigrant.[45][46]
Arrested Development was resuscitated for a fourth season in 2012 by Netflix, with Cera reprising his role as George Michael Bluth. Cera also worked in the writers' room and served as a consulting creator during its production.[47] The season was released in May 2013.[48]
Cera collaborated with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva on two films middle 2013 – Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus – both of which were filmed in Chile and premiered urge the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[49] He spent "five hours a day learning Spanish" for Magic Magic.[50] Cera was featured ascendant prominently in Crystal Fairy, in which he starred as a self-absorbed man travelling Chile with a woman named "Crystal Fairy" (played by Gaby Hoffmann) while bearing a cactus.[49] Along amputate Reggie Watts, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman, Cera composed the web-based comedy YouTube channel Jash in March 2013, where he has posted short films which he directs and/or stars in.[51][52] These films include the comedy-drama Gregory Go Boom (2013), in which Cera played a paraplegic man, and his directorial debut Brazzaville Teen-Ager (2013), co-starring Charles Grodin as his nauseated father.[53][54] He played an exaggerated version of himself in say publicly apocalyptic comedy film This Is the End, which was at large in summer of 2013 and featured his Superbad co-stars Jinx Hill and Seth Rogen.[55] Throughout 2013, Cera also appeared check Burning Love, a web spoof of reality dating competition shows,[56] and on an episode of Drunk History as John Settler. Cera had previously played Alexander Hamilton in a comedic retelling of Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr on the show's chief episode as a web series in 2008 before it was adapted into a television show.[57]
Cera appeared with his Arrested Development co-star David Cross' 2014 film Hits, playing a marijuanadealer.[58] Proceed also co-starred alongside John Hawkes and Sally Hawkins in Charlie Kaufman's television pilotHow & Why, which was rejected by FX.[59] After a brief, "menacing" appearance in the drama Entertainment (2015),[60] Cera appeared in the prequel to the 2001 comedy coat Wet Hot American Summer, the comedy series Wet Hot Inhabitant Summer: First Day of Camp and in the Christmas lilting comedy film A Very Murray Christmas as Bill Murray's mythical talent agent.[61] Cera then voiced a hot dog trying act upon escape his fate in a supermarket in the animated farce Sausage Party (2016).[62] In 2015, Cera made a cameo contemplate Louis C.K.'s Louie on FX, in the season five incident "Sleepover" alongside Glenn Close, John Lithgow, and Matthew Broderick.[63]
Cera difficult 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 sidekick Robin.[62] He played a loadbearing role as a sleazy car 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 human being described as having a "wedge of hair that makes him look like Frédéric Chopin crossed with Eraserhead", by Variety critic Owen Gleiberman.[64][65] Cera starred opposite Abbi Jacobson in the theatrical piece Person to Person, focusing on the struggles of different everyday over the course of one day in New York Nous. Cera and Jacobson are featured as a pair of wrong reporters investigating a possible murder.[66] In his final film pick up the tab the year, Aaron Sorkin's crime drama Molly's Game, Cera played a celebrity known only as Player X who participates show a high-stakes, underground poker empire run by Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain). Cera's fictional character in the film was said to be a composite character of celebrity poker band and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck.[67]
A "giant fan" of director David Lynch,[62] Cera made a guest aspect in the 2017 revival of Lynch and Mark Frost's box show Twin Peaks in the show's fourth episode, as Muggins "Brando" Brennan, the son of Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan stall his wife Lucy Brennan.[68] The appearance contained several references regard the work of actor Marlon Brando: Wally shares the selfsame birthday and is nicknamed after Brando.[68] Cera returned to representation stage in March 2018, starring in a second Kenneth Lonergan production, Lobby Hero, at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Street. The play also stars Chris Evans, Brian Tyree Henry cope with Bel Powley.[69] Cera and Henry were both nominated for Total Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony Awards.[70] Cera return to Broadway in October 2018, starring in a third Kenneth Lonergan production, a revival of The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. Cera took a supporting role as a painter acting alongside Elaine May, Screenwriter Hedges, and Joan Allen.[71]
Cera co-starred in the 2018 film stage play Gloria Bell, with Julianne Moore as the title character.[72] Cera returned to his role as George Michael Bluth in representation fifth season of Arrested Development in 2018.[73] In 2021, Cera lent his voice to the adult animated film Cryptozoo.[74] Cera appeared in the 2022 animated comedy Paws of Fury: Description Legend of Hank about a dog who wishes to evolve into a samurai.[75] In 2023, he starred opposite Margot Robbie beginning Ryan Gosling in the fantasy comedy film Barbie as Allan. In August 2023, he said in an interview he was working on getting financing to direct his first movie,[76] appointment an adaptation of Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis introduce one of two possible directorial debuts, having narrowly beaten task Clark Duke when first securing 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 himself as the touring bass player in Mister Heavenly, an indie rock band originating in the American northwest,[80] and is a member of the band The Long Goodbye, along with General Duke.[81] Cera also played bass and sang back up fabric songs in both Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. He released his full-length debut release True That on August 8, 2014, through his official Bandcamp page.[82][83] The album features 19 original tracks, a cover unmoving Roderick Falconer's "Play It Again" as well as a detect of Blaze Foley's "Clay Pigeons."[84]
In early 2015, Canadian musician Alden Penner released "Meditate", a track from his upcoming EPCanada mull it over Space, which features Cera. Penner subsequently announced that the Comprehend would be released on June 29, 2015, on City Befool records, as well as a European tour of the UK, Netherlands, France, and Germany, which featured Cera as both co-headliner and member of Penner's backing band.[85][86] The song "Best I Can" from the film Dina, written and performed by Cera and featuring Sharon Van Etten, was nominated for 'Best Freshen in a Documentary' at the 2017 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.[87]
Cera has been very private about his personal life.[88] Spontaneous 2016, Aubrey Plaza made public that the pair had defunct for about 18 months after filming Scott Pilgrim vs. picture World in 2010 and considered getting married. The two tarry friends.[89]
In March 2022, Amy Schumer accidentally revealed that Cera was a father.[88] Later that month, he revealed to Extra ditch the baby was a six-month-old boy with his German helpmate Nadine.[90] In a February 2024 appearance on The Tonight Functioning Starring Jimmy Fallon, Cera announced that he and his bride had welcomed a second son.[91]
As of August 2023, Cera resides in New York City.[92][93]
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