John C. Reilly

At 58 years old, John C. Reilly has this physical status:

John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, singer, voice actor, screenwriter, and producer who made his film debut in Brian De Palma's war film Casualties of War (1989).

Reilly gained exposure through his supporting roles in Days of Thunder (1990), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), and The River Wild (1994).

He also starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's films Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), and Magnolia (1999).

For his performance in Chicago (2002), Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award.

He worked with director Martin Scorsese on both Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004). In 2007, he starred in the comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, garnering him a Grammy Award nomination and a second Golden Globe Award nomination for the song performed in the film, "Walk Hard".

Reilly starred with Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen in the Adam McKay-directed comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and Step Brothers (2008).

He voiced the title character in the commercially successful Wreck It Ralph film series (2012-2018), and appeared in the superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), as well as Kong: Skull Island (2017).

Since 2010, Reilly has been starring in the television series Check It Out! with Dr.

Steve Brule, playing the titular character that originated on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.

In 2018 he starred as the comedian Oliver Hardy in the biopic Stan and Ollie.

The role won him the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor.

His performance as Dr.

John Watson in the 2018 Columbia comedy/mystery film Holmes & Watson garnered very negative reviews, earning him his first Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor. Reilly performs with his band John Reilly and Friends and worked as a stage actor in True West (2000), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

Early life and education

Reilly was born in Chicago, Illinois, the fifth of six children. His father was of Irish and Scottish descent, and his mother was of Lithuanian ancestry. His father ran an industrial linen supply company. Reilly has described himself as being mischievous during his childhood, highlighting an event when he was 12 in which he and his friends stole 500 boxes of Sugar Corn Pops from a freight train. Reilly grew up in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.

Reilly was raised Roman Catholic and attended Brother Rice High School. He is an alumnus of The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.

Personal life

In 1992, Reilly married Alison Dickey, an independent film producer. They met on the set of Casualties of War (1989) in Thailand. They have two sons. Reilly and Dickey's eldest son Leo is a musician, who performs under the name LoveLeo. Reilly practices transcendental meditation.

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Career

In 1989, Reilly made his film debut in the Brian De Palma war film Casualties of War as PFC Herbert Hatcher. Although his role was limited, De Palma loved Reilly's appearance so much that his role was greatly expanded. In Tony Scott's Days of Thunder in June 1990, he played Buck, Tom Cruise's character's NASCAR crew member. Stevie McGuire, an Irish hoodlum in the crime film State of Grace, directed Sean Penn, appeared as a monk in the comedy We're No Angels (1989), which also starred Penn. Reilly's Hoffa's (Jack Nicholson) associate who testifies against him at the trial in 1992 was Jimmy Hoffa. Reilly appeared in a supporting role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), portraying one of the titular characters' (played by Johnny Depp) relatives. Reilly's next role was in The River Wild (1994), in which Reilly appeared alongside Kevin Bacon as a pair of criminals terrorizing a family during a rafting trip. Reilly appeared in Dolores Claiborne as a police constable and as a heroin-addicted drummer in the band Jennifer Jason Leigh's role.

Reilly played a near homeless man in Reno, Nevada, who is taken under the wing of a senior gambler in Paul Thomas Anderson's directorial debut film Hard Eight (1996). In Boogie Nights (1997), a deeply religious police officer in Magnolia (1999); and a cameo in Fiona Apple's single "Across the Universe." The Thin Red Line (1998), Terrence Malick's ensemble war film, starred Reilly in a supporting role that was not intended as a larger one, but many of his scenes were deleted along with several other cast members, although many of his scenes were deleted along with other cast members. Reilly appeared in The Settlement, a 1999 film starring William Fichtner, which Variety writer Robert Koehler described as a "write-off" despite applauding his performance. In the romantic comedy film Never Been Kissed, Reilly appeared as one of the newspaper's managing editors in the same year. Gus Sinski, Sam Raimi's sports drama For Love of the Game, was released the same year.

The Perfect Storm was his first release of 2000, starring Reilly as a veteran crew member on the Andrea Gail fishing ship that was captured in the 1991 Perfect Storm. In the Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming-directed comedy The Anniversary Party (2001), he played director Mac Forsyth. In Miguel Arteta's comedy-drama The Good Girl, Reilly portrayed a stoner husband in a lackluster marriage to Jennifer Aniston's character, cheating on a younger man played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Reilly won three of the year's Academy Awards for Best Picture nominees in three of the year's Academy Awards – Chicago, Gangs of New York, and The Hours later this year. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in Chicago. Zellweger said "John is so often the best thing about the films he's in" and that critic Roger Ebert praised the "pathetic sincere naivete" that Reilly brought to the role. Gangs of New York by Martin Scorsese featured Reilly as the violent 19th-century constable "Happy Jack" Mulraney, in Stephen Daldry's drama The Hours starred him as the husband to Julianne Moore's character. Reilly appeared in the comedy Anger Management (2003) as a monk for a brief period of time.

Reilly appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2004 Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator as Noah Dietrich, Howard Hughes' (Leonardo DiCaprio) trusted business partner. "Noah was almost a father figure to Hughes," Reilly said, and it was Noah who had a dream, and it was him who said, 'We don't have the funds." He was one of his few friends." He appeared in Criminal (2004), starring Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Stephen Holden of The New York Times said "John C. Reilly may be one of our finer character actors," but the actor's portrayal of Richard Gaddis, a gimlet-eyed con man, in Criminal makes too many vestiges of a husband's duped schlub in Chicago to see through his performance." According to reports, Reilly left the 2005 Lars von Trier film Manderlay to protest the on-set killing of a donkey. Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody, one of Miranda July's short films? (2005). He appeared in the Jennifer Connelly-led horror film Dark Water (2005) as the boss of a mystic hotel. Cal Naughton Jr., the best friend and teammate of the title character played by Will Ferrell, co-starred in Adam McKay's comedy about NASCAR drivers named Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby in August 2006. The film was well-received, grossing $163 million around the world. In addition to appearing in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny as a Sasquatch, Robert Altman's last film A Prairie Home Companion appeared in him the same year.

Reilly appeared on Sketch Comedy's Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Great Job! Dr. Steve Brule, a handicapped doctor and television presenter, appeared on television from 2007 to 2010. Check It Out! was the role that lead to the spin-off film Check It Out! Dr. Steve Brule's show has been broadcasting since 2010 and is written and produced by Reilly. In 2007, Reilly starred as the title character in parody biographical Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, performing various songs, parodying Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and others. For the film's title song "Walk Hard," he received two Golden Globe awards, Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Best Original Song. In Step Brothers, Reilly reunited with Ferrell, playing middle-aged step brothers who are forced to live together for the next year. He appeared in The Simpsons' episode "Any Given Sundance" that year, as well as Seann William Scott in The Promotion. He appeared in the film Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, as Larten Crepsley, and he sang "5" in 9. Reilly appeared in the 2010 film Cyrus as a divorcé in a new love. Reilly was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy by a Satellite Award, as well as for Best Male Lead for his critically acclaimed appearance.

Ed Helms appeared in early 2011 and appeared in the comedy Cedar Rapids for the second time. Elizabeth Weizman, a New York Times columnist, considered Reilly a standout in the film, and he was nominated for the Best Supporting Male award. In the British-American drama We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, Reilly co-starred alongside Ezra Miller and Oscar-winning Tilda Swinton. Franklin, the father of the troubled Kevin, was the protagonist in the film; Slate critic Dana Stevens characterized his appearance as "heartbreakingly sweet." He appeared in the comedy-drama Terri alongside Jacob Wysocki, portraying a school principal who is interested in a teenage misfit. Roman Polanski's black comedy-drama Carnage, which takes place in a single apartment, was his last release of 2011. Jodie Foster, Oscar-winning actor, and Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, two other married couples who are involved in a conflict after their children get involved. Reilly was supposed to appear in a God of Carnage production, but he couldn't make it fit into his schedule and said, "I think I've spent enough time in that apartment."

In the 2012 animated film Wreck-It Ralph, which follows an arcade game robber who is determined to be the hero, Reilly played the title character. Reilly made several contributions to the film's script. "The film was applauded," Los Angeles Times writer Betsy Sharkey said, "the film's subversive sensibility and old-school/new-school feel are a complete kick." In November 2018, Wreck-It Ralph's sequel titled Ralph Breaks the Internet was released, grossing over $471 million and a sequel titled Ralph Breaks the Internet. Reilly appeared in Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie as the dim-witted Taquito and made an uncredited cameo appearance in the comedy The Dictator, starring Sacha Baron Cohen. In the film's fight scene, he appeared in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, playing Confederate General Stonewall Jackson.

Reilly narrated the nature documentary Bears in 2014. In the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy, he played Nova Corps corpsman Rhomann Dey. On FXX, Reilly co-starred in the animated television series Stone Quackers. Reilly, an inept police officer who spoke in a video, also produced the series. He appeared in five films this year, including the drama Entertainment; Yorgos Lanthimos' comedy-drama The Lobster as Robert, a man with a lisp who is given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be converted into an animal; and the English dub of Studio Ghibli's animated film When Marnie Was There. Reilly also appeared in and co-wrote Bagboy, resuming his role as Dr. Steve Brule in a Brule-created sitcom. It aired on February 21, 2015, with Vanity Fair reporter Melissa Locker saying, "If you get it, the show is knockout funny," but sadly, it is not for everyone and Reilly is O.K. With that information, we're done."

In the ensemble cast of the computer-animated musical comedy Sing, which was first published in December 2016, Reilly portrayed a sheep. Reilly appeared in Kong: Skull Island, a World War II lieutenant who has been stuck on the infamous island for 28 years. The actor, who portrayed his character as "essentially a love letter to Chicago," was singled out for praise for his work out of what is typically thought of as an underwhelming ensemble cast. Matt Zoller Seitz, a film critic, said Reilly "steals the film instantly and never gives it back" in his role as the "wise castaway," and Owen Gleiberman praised his role for being "terrifically dry and sly" in what may have been a stereotype stereotype.

In the 2018 biopic Stan & Ollie about the comedic double act Laurel and Hardy, Reilly co-starred Oliver Hardy and Coogan Stan Laurel. Eli Sisters, a hitman based on Patrick deWitt Western fiction, starred Charlie McNamar as his brother Charlie, Jacques Audiard directing, and Reilly as a producer. In 2011, Reilly himself selected the rights, but a film was produced in the summer of 2017. Will Ferrell played Watson in a comedic adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories in 2018. Reilly reprised his role in Ralph Breaks the Internet as Wreck-It Ralph in the same year.

Fred Gwynne, the Munster star, made an uncredited cameo appearance in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021).

In 1998, Reilly appeared in "Talk About The Blues," alongside Giovanni Ribisi and Winona Ryder, as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. In the musical film Chicago, Amos Hart, Roxie Hart's na've husband, appeared in Amos Hart. In 2006, he appeared on Rogue's Gallery's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys: "Fathom the Bowl" and "My Son John." Reilly appeared in the biopic parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story in 2007. He performed as both a singer and songwriter on the film's soundtrack, for which he was nominated for a Grammy. In the Cox Across America 2007 Tour, Reilly appeared as Dewey Cox in a concert performance tour in the United States.

He recorded songs by Jack White and released as two singles by White's Third Man Records in 2011. Two The Delmore Brothers' "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" and "Lonesome Yodel Blues #2," both of which were performed with Tom Brosseau, are included on the first single. Ray Price's "I'll Be There If You Ever Want" and the country classic "I'm Making Plans" performed with Becky Stark are among the second singles on display. In the Beastie Boys' video "Make Some Noise," he also appeared as "future Mike D." John Reilly & Friends, John Reilly & Friends' current band, was due to perform in the Railroad Revival Tour in 2012, alongside Willie Nelson & Family, Band of Horses, and Jamey Johnson. The case was however postponed.

Reilly appeared on Mr. Oizo's album "HAM," in which he played Father. "HAM" is an excerpt from Eric Wareheim's television comedy Rubberhead, which features sketches from a variety of comedians. On NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Series, John Reilly & Friends appeared in February 2015. In 2017, Reilly appeared in Lil Dicky's music video for "Pillow Talking." Reilly appeared on A$AP Mob's album Cozy Tapes Vol. (2017). 2: Daryl Choad, a principal, is too cozy as Principal Daryl Choad.

"Eileen g," a French-composed song performed by Percy, was recorded by guitarist and button accordion player Séamus Begley on the Irish traditional band Téada's album "Coiscéim Coiligh/As the Days Brighten" in 2022.

Reilly is known as a versatile stage actor. He has appeared in many Broadway productions and has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Sam Shepard's True West, 2000. After appearing in Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, he and co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman were nominated, alternated between the two lead characters during separate performances. Reilly appeared in musical Marty, a musical adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky-penned film Marty (1955). Stanley Kowalski was a Stanley Kowalski in Edward Hall's production of the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire in 2005. If a revival of the musical Guys and Dolls were to take place, Reilly said in 2010 that he would be incredibly determined to play the lead role of Nathan Detroit.

He appeared in a scene of Dustin Lance Black's play 8, a staged reenactment of California's Pro 8 ban on same-sex marriages, as well as David Blankenhorn. The play was staged at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and then broadcast on YouTube to raise funds for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, a non-profit group that funds the plaintiffs' legal team and sponsors the play.

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