Bill Hader

At 45 years old, Bill Hader has this physical status:

Career

Hader's aspirations to become a filmmaker led him to drop out of college and to Los Angeles in 1999. His parents were supportive of his son's decision and allowed him to use the funds they had saved up for his living expenses in Los Angeles. While browsing the back pages of The Hollywood Reporter, he found work as a production assistant (PA) and hoped to progress to become an assistant director. He spent a significant portion of his life as a young man "lonely and underemployed" and spent a considerable amount of his time watching movies. He worked 18-hour days as a PA, but he had no time to pursue his creative aspirations. He served as a PA on the documentary Empire of Dreams: The True Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004) and James Dean (2001), Spider-Man (2002), and Collateral Damage (2002). He also appeared on the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life (2003–2006). He served as a PA and stage manager on Playboy TV's sexual fantasy show Night Calls for a brief period of time, but soon resigned because it would offend his parents. After a bad experience while shooting The Scorpion King (2002), he eventually left being a PA.

Hader later obtained a night job as a nighttime assistant editor at Triage Entertainment, where he worked as a nighttime assistant editor. He invested money into his own short film but was afraid to reveal it. He and his then-long-distance girlfriend broke up soon after. He began attending comedy classes with colleagues at the Second City, an improvisational comedy company. He soon discovered that comedy was the creative outlet he had been looking for since leaving higher education, and Hader, his new compatriot in comedy Matt Offerman, and fellow humorists Eric Filipkowski and Mel Cowan decided to form their own sketch comedy troupe. The four four members of Animals From The Future, a Christening organisation, appeared in Van Nuys to small audiences at backyard shows. Megan Mullally, Matt's brother, informed his wife, Megan Mullally, that the firm exists. Mullally told Hader that she would discuss him with Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live after attending one of the group's backyard appearances. Hader was invited to audition for the show following Mullally's suggestion, and he soon travelled to New York to meet with a group of SNL producers. When he was invited to audition, Hader had no impressions that he was well prepared. During the audition, he was anxious and ineffective at revealing his strengths. The result was his uninhibited impersonation of an Italian man who had never overheard. The portrayal would later become Hader's first of the show's many recurring characters: Vinny Vedecci. Hader obtained an agent and boss as a result of the audition. Hader was working as an assistant editor on Iron Chef America right before he was officially accepted to work on SNL.

Hader was hired as a featured artist and made his debut on the program on October 1, 2005. During JetBlue Airways Flight 292's emergency landing, he was a psychologist speaking out about life and death. He went from "preschool to Harvard" in a short time. He became the "impressions guy," aiming to fill a utility-player role "as his hero Phil Hartman." Hader has claimed that he did impersonations of teachers and friends as he was growing up, but that he did not do impersonations of famous people until his Saturday Night Live audition. Vincent Price in the Variety Vault sketches, Matthew Price, Harvey Fierstein, Al Pacino, Rick Perry, John Malkovich, John Malkovich, John Malkovich, James Carville, Julian Assange, Eliot Spitzer, Clint Eastwood, and Charlie Sheen are among his impressions. Hader's first nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series came on July 19, 2012. Eddie Murphy, the first male SNL cast member to be voted on this award since 1984.

Hader's favorite was Stefon, Weekend Update's flamboyant New York City correspondent, whose only observations were of bizarre nightclubs involving nightmarish characters. Stefon is in love with Seth Meyers, and he's married him. On a season-34 sketch in which a screenwriter named David Zolesky (played by Ben Affleck) invited his estranged brother Stefon to pitch a family-friendly sports drama about a college student who bonds with his grandfather in order to try out for the college football team. He was based on two people: John Mulaney and Hader, a young club owner who had never welcomed Mulaney to strange underground clubs and a barista Hader encountered who looks, speaks, and dresses like Stefon.

Hader played a variety of roles in 2007, including Katherine Heigl's character's editor at E!, on his debut You, Me and Dupree (2006). Dave, the acid-taking mechanic in Hot Rod, is joined by SNL co-star Andy Samberg, a recumbent biker in The Brothers Solomon (which featured SNL actor Will Forte in one of the film's co-leading roles) and, more specifically, as Officer Slater in the Judd Apatow produced Superbad. His participation in Superbad raised his public knowledge and allowed him to appear on mainstream shows such as Total Request Live, The Tonight Show, and MTV's Video Music Awards.

Hader appeared on South Park as a creative consultant and producer, beginning with the series's 12th season. He developed his interest in the series as a result of Matt Stone's friendship; the two had a common sense of humor, and Hader began going on writers' retreats with the staff. He began working on the service in the hopes of learning about story structure. Hader is one of the 2009 Emmy Award for Best Animated Series. On the 2009 Blu-Ray version of South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, as well as the Comedy Central special 6 Days to Air, a documentary filming during the 2011 South Park episode "HumancentiPad." For the 17th season, Hader rejoined the South Park writing staff. Hader received a Peabody Award in Political Satire in 2008 for his work on Saturday Night Live. On the second season of the Adult Swim animated series Punk'd, he appeared on MTV prank show Punk'd and voiced a number of characters. Renegade Angel is an acronym that has been in possession of an adult Swim cartoon series. Back in the Day, Sounds Good to Me: Remastering the Sting, and The Jeannie Tate Exhibition were also produced with SNL writer Liz Cackowski and then-wife Maggie Carey.

Hader appeared in, and cowrote with Simon Rich in the web series The Line on Crackle in 2008. Hader contributed to Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates' audiobook. Hader appeared on Tim and Eric Awesome Show impersonating recurring character James Quall in 2008 on "Jazz." He appeared in two other Apatow projects: Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Pineapple Express. In the action comedy Tropic Thunder, he appeared alongside Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr., and Tom Cruise. In the comedy films Adventureland (2009) and Paul (2011), Hader re-teamed with Superbad director Greg Mottola. In Grand Theft Auto IV, he lent his voice to his first video game role, as well as SNL castmates Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen.

The Short Halloween was written by Hader and SNL castmate Seth Meyers. It was illustrated by Kevin Maguire and came out on May 29, 2009. It was awarded three and a half out of five actors by Benjamin Birdie of Comic Book Resources. He appeared in Year One, the 2009 comedy film, with Jack Black and Michael Cera. Hader contributed to Chance of Meatballs, as well as its 2013 sequel, starring Flint Lockwood and the FLDSMDFR, as well as his invention in the films. In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, he performed a gazelle and appeared in the Museum's Fantasy Film Night: Battle of the Smithsonian as Major General George Armstrong Custer. Hader was one of Vanity Fair's list of "Comedy's New Legends" in April 2009.

On the fourth season of The Venture Brothers (2010-2013), Hader played Professor Impossible, a role that Stephen Colbert invented. In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "IAMAPOD," he appeared as the Pod, as well as Hitler in the episode "Der Inflatable Fuhrer." In the live episode of 30 Rock on October 14, 2010, Hader played Kevin, Matt Damon's copilot. In the action-comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), he played "The Voice," the disembodied voice that pops up during certain scenes of the film's video game-inspired combat scenes. In the science fiction film Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), he made a small cameo as the voice of the US Vengeance computer.

Hader hosted Essentials, Jr. on Turner Classic Movies from 2011 to 2014. Hader obtained the job after being a guest programmer with host Robert Osborne (1943), and Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950). When TCM asked him whether he'd like to host its summer Essentials Jr. festival, which introduces younger audiences to seminal films from Hollywood's golden age of Hollywood and international cinema. Hader was chosen because he has a "strong energy and appeal to younger people." He is ardent about the subject. He isn't limited to just reading a teleprompter. He really cares and knows the movies." Hader selected 13 films (one a week) to film for the entire family each of those four years as part of the Essentials, Jr. program. He liked Singin' in the Rain (1952), Bringing Up Baby (1938), and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951).

Hader appeared in the series premiere of Mindy's ex-boyfriend Tom McDougall, who played as Mindy's ex-boyfriend Tom McDougall. In the first season, his character came back later. In the Hulu animated comedy film The Awesomes, Hader played Dr. Malocchio. Hader's voice, Robert Downey, Jr., was replaced by Hader in 2013.

Hader decided to leave SNL after eight seasons, assassinating the cast and crew of his decision in February 2013. He came to the conclusion that he needed to leave because his then-wife and he were always having to travel to Los Angeles for work, which made it difficult for their children. It was his last episode on May 18, 2013. "It was a difficult decision, but it must have occurred at some point," he told reporters. "Maybe it's just time to go," I said at a point where I said, "Maybe it's just time to go." Hader returned as host with musical guest Hozier on October 11, 2014, and as musical guest Arcade Fire on March 17, 2018.

Hader appeared in a dramatic role in the 2014 film The Skeleton Twins, opposite Kristen Wiig, with whom he appeared on Saturday Night Live. At the Sundance Film Festival, the film was selected for the 'Best Screenplay' category. Hader appeared in the Disney-Pixar film Inside Out in 2015 and was hired to perform a dinosaur. Hader, alongside John Lithgow, Lucas Neff, Neil Patrick Harris, and Judy Greer, decided against the project after their characters were redesigned.

Hader was first recalled as the captain of the 99th Precinct in Brooklyn Nine-Nine in 2015. Hader reunited with fellow SNL alumni Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers in 2015 for the IFC mockumentary series Documentary Now!, in which he appeared as both an actor and a writer.

Drew McWeeny of HitFix announced that Hader and Ben Schwartz provided the voice of BB-8 in the film, and that the script's "BB-8 vocal consultants" was correct. Abrams was able to create the voice through a talkbox attached to an iPad running a sound effects software. In Bad Lip Reading's parodies of the Star Wars original trilogy, Hader also appeared multiple characters. Hader appeared in a minor supporting role in The Lonely Island's 2016 film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stop Stopping, directed by Judd Apatow.

In Maggie's Plan (2015), Hader played him in the first leading man role opposite Amy Schumer in Trainwreck (2015) and then went from a former college friend to Greta Gerwig's best friend. In the 2017 film version of Power Rangers, Hader played Alpha 5 for Alpha 5.

Hader co-created (with Alec Berg) and debuted in the HBO dark comedy series Barry, for which he received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations as producer, writer, director, and actor. In both 2018 and 2019, he received multiple awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the first two seasons.

Richie Tozier appeared in the supernatural horror film It: Chapter Two as Richie Tozier (sharing the role with Finn Wolfhard), as well as Jessica Chastain, Bill Skarsgy, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and James McAvoy. Hader was lauded for his work. Leonard appeared in Toy Story 2, Axel the Carnie in Toy Story 4, The Wanderer, the Age of Resistance, and he played Nick Kringle in Noelle.

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