Michael Cera

At 36 years old, Michael Cera has this physical status:

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George Michael Bluth, a character on the sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013–2019), and as Evan in Superbad (2007), Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and a fictional version of himself in This Is the End (2013). In The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry in Sausage Party (2016), and Sal Viscuso, the voice behind the scenes in Children's Hospital, he sang Dick Grayson/Robin.

Cera made his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth, a series. Cera was nominated for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play in 2018. Cera appeared in Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery's revival.

Cera is a performer, not an actor, and he released his debut album True That in 2014. Cera has also appeared as the touring bassist for indie rock band Mister Heavenly.

Early life

Cera was born in 1988 in Brampton, Ontario. He is the son of Linda (née Cockman) and Luigi Cera, a technician. His father is Sicilian (Italian), and his mother has Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and English roots. Both his parents worked for Xerox. Cera has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly. Since being sick with the chicken pox at the age of three, he became interested in acting. Cera memorized all of the dialogue and idolized Bill Murray. He enrolled in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation lessons.

Cera attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School, and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine. He attended online until grade 12, after starting acting.

Personal life

Cera has been very private about her personal life. The pair had been dating for about 18 months after filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in 2010 and considering getting married in 2016. The two people are still colleagues.

Amy Schumer mistakenly revealed Cera was a father in March 2022, but the child's name, date of birth, and mother were not revealed. He revealed to Extra later that month that the baby was a six-month-old boy.

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Career

He was his first appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial for the first time. In which he poked the Pillsbury Doughboy and got his first role with lines, he landed him a job in a Pillsbury commercial. After auditions, he found it "completely disheartening" not to be cast in commercials.

Cera went beyond that in 1999, when he was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian children's show I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, which ran for two seasons. He appeared in the television films What Katy Did and Switching Goals, starring the Olsen twins, throughout the year.

As the son of Noah Emmerich's character, Cera made his theatrical debut in the science fiction film Frequency (2000) next year. Cera has appeared in the films Steal This Movie! The Ultimate G's: In 2000, Zac's Flying Dream came true. He appeared in the second film, which was shown in IMAX theaters, for the first time. In 2001, Cera appeared in many television films, including My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger. Josh Spitz appeared in the animated film Braceface, which he continued until 2004.

In the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Cera played young Chuck Barris (played by Sam Rockwell). In the 2003 The Berenstain Bears animated film, he played Brother Bear, an anthropomorphic bear.

He appeared in the critically panned Fox pilot The Grubbs, which never aired, was the pilot. But Cera auditioned for a role in another Fox sitcom, Arrested Development. In November 2003, this show premiered in November 2003 and lasted for three seasons. Cera plays George Michael Bluth, the teen son of character Michael Bluth played by Jason Bateman, as the former wealthy and dysfunctional Bluth family is chronicled on the show. Fox canceled the series in 2006 due to poor viewership, even though it had received critical acclaim. Cera produced and performed in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, Aleksey Vayner's video resume. In the episode "The Rapes of Graff" in 2006, Cera and his Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat co-starred as a pair of college students.

Cera and her best friend Clark Duke wrote and starred in a string of short films that were released on their website. Duke first conceived the idea when he was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University and used their videos for his film school classes. The pair wrote, produce, direct, and appear in a short-form comedy series named Clark and Michael in 2007. The show starred guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter, and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed on CBS's internet channel, CBS Innertube.

Cera appeared in a staged comedy film showing him being fired from the lead role of Knocked Up after belittling and arguing with its producer Judd Apatow in a scene that mocks the David O. Russell blow up on the set of I Heart Huckabees in May 2007. Cera appeared in the Apatow-produced teen comedy Superbad with Jonah Hill. The film's characters – two virgin teenagers about to graduate from high school with no partying were based on Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – were based on Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, both based on the comedy's writers. In August 2007, Superbad was released in theaters, surpassing the US box office for the second week in a row.

Cera's performance was critically praised by the Atlantic reviewer for capturing "teen sexual abduction" as he did in the role of George Michael [on Arrested Development]. Cera and Hill were "excellent," according to the New York Times, and CNN lauded them for "off each other beautifully."

Cera produced a live, staged version of Saturday Night Live in November 2007, but it was not broadcast due to the continuing Writer Guild of America Strike in 2007. Cera co-starred in Juno as Paulie Bleeker, a teen who has impregnated his long-time school buddy Juno (played by Elliot Page). Cera was named in Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" list in February 2008 for Superbad and Juno, and was a recipient of Breakthrough Artist in the Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007.

Cera appeared in Infinite Playlist (2008), where they played two strangers who bond over their shared love of a band and explore their unethical art. He appeared in the comedy Extreme Movie (2008), which was made of vignettes focusing on teen sex. Cera appeared on Children's Hospital from 2008 to 2016, as Sal Viscuso, a hospital employee whose identity is only revealed by his voice over an intercom.

In the independent romantic comedy Paper Heart (2009), Cera played a fictionalized version of himself. In addition to playing herself, it explored Cera and the film's writer Charlyne Yi's fictional relationship. Cera and Yi assembled the film's score together. Cera appeared alongside Jack Black in Year One, which was set during the Stone Age. Harold Ramis' film was poorly received, but Time magazine commentator Mary Pols said Cera's role saved the film from being a "catastrophe." Cera appeared in Youth in Revolt, the eponymous book's last film of 2009. François Dillinger, a shy teen who creates a destructive alter ego after being smitten with a girl played by Portia Doubleday, played Nick Twisp.

Cera had also begun to write. In 2009, McSweeney's Quarterly thirtieth issue published his first published short story, "Pinecone."

In the film version of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel series, Cera was played as Scott Pilgrim. Also when the actor's character is being a bit of an assassination, the film's producer Edgar Wright had seen his work in Arrested Development and assumed that Cera was an actor "audiences would still follow." Pilgrim, a musician who must battle the seven bad exes of his girlfriend Ramona's girlfriend Ramona is the subject of the film's title, "played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead" focuses on Pilgrim, a journalist who must fight the seven evil exes (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). In August 2010, it was first announced in theaters. The box office did poorly, grossing $47.7 million against a $85–90 million production budget.

Cera appeared in "The Daughter Also Rises," a 2012 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, as the voice of Nick, a love interest to Lisa Simpson.

In a two-week run at the Sydney Opera House in March 2012, Cera made his theater debut in a production of Kenneth Lonergan's "This Is Our Youth." Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, two Scott Pilgrim co-stars, appeared in the play as well. The Cort Theater opened in September 2014 and closed in January 2015. "The feeling of an amorphous being being assuming and losing shape in the course of about 12 hours," New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley lauded. Cera appeared in the short film The Immigrant in 2012 and was also a supporting actor in the drama The End of Love.

Argusted Development was revived by Netflix in 2012 for a fourth season, with Cera reprising his role as George Michael Bluth. Cera has served in the writer's room and served as a consultant producer during the company's production. In May 2013, the season was announced.

Cera also worked with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva on two films in 2013 – Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus – both of which were shot in Chile and premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He spent "five hours a day learning Spanish" for Magic Magic. Cera was most prominent in Crystal Fairy, in which he appeared as a self-absorbed man traveling Chile with a woman named "Crystal Fairy" (played by Gaby Hoffmann) while carrying a cactus. Cera, along with Reggie Watts, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman, founded Jash, a web-based comedy YouTube channel, where he produces short films in which he produces and/or stars. These films include Gregory Go Boom (2013), in which Cera appeared as a paraplegic man, and Brazzaville Teen-Ager (2013), co-starring Charles Grodin as his sick father. In the apocalyptic comedy film This Is the End, he starred his Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen, who was an exaggerated version of himself. Cera appeared on Burning Love, a web spoof reality dating competition, and on an episode of Drunk History as John Endecott throughout 2013. Cera had previously appeared in a comedic retelling of Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr on the show's first episode as a web series in 2008 before it was turned into a television show.

Cera appeared in his Arrested Development co-star David Cross' 2014 film Hits as a marijuana dealer. In Charlie Kaufman's television pilot How & Why, which was also co-starred John Hawkes and Sally Hawkins, which was also rejected by FX. Cera appeared in the prequel to the 2001 comedy film Wet Hot American Summer, the comedy series Wet Hot American Summer's First Day of Camp, and in Bill Murray's fictional talent agent Avery Murray Christmas. In the animated comedy Sausage Party (2016), Cera played a hot dog in an attempt to flee his fate in a supermarket.

Cera made a cameo on Louis C.K. in 2015. Louie on FX's season five "Sleepover" stars Glenn Close, John Lithgow, and Matthew Broderick.

Cera released five films in 2017, the first of which was the animated superhero film The Lego Batman Movie, in which he played Robin of Batman's sidekick Robin. He appeared in How to Be a Latin Lover and co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full length film, Lemon, as a supporting role as a sleazy car salesman. By Variety critic Owen Gleiberman, he played an actor with a "wedge of hair that makes him look like Frédéric Chopin crossed with Eraserhead." In the drama Person to Person, Cera starred opposite Abbi Jacobson, focusing on the lives of various individuals over the course of a single day in New York City. Cera and Jacobson are among two crime reporters investigating a possible suicide. Aaron Sorkin's crime drama Molly's Game, Cera played a celebrity known only as Player X in 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 mix of celebrity poker players and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Ben Affleck.

In the show's fourth episode, a "giant fan" of director David Lynch, Cera, appeared as Wally "Brando" Brennan, the son of Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan and his wife Lucy Brennan, the son of Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan and his wife Lucy Brennan, a "big brother." Multiple references to actor Marlon Brando's career were made at the premiere: Wally shares the same birthday and is regarded after Brando.

Cera appeared in a second Kenneth Lonergan performance, Lobby Hero, at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway in March 2018. Chris Evans, Brian Tyree Henry, and Bel Powley appear in the film. Both Cera and Henry were nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony Awards.

Cera appeared onstage again in October 2018 in a third Kenneth Lonergan production, a revival of The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, and Joan Allen appeared in the film as well.

Cera appeared in Gloria Bell, a 2018 film drama, with Julianne Moore as the title character. Cera's forthcoming projects include the animated film Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, a dog that aspires to be a samurai. In the fifth season of Arrested Development in 2018, Cera reprised his role as George Michael Bluth.

Cera appeared in 2021 on the adult animated film Cryptozoo.

Cera performed mandolin and backing vocals on the Weezer song "Hang On" from their album Hurley in 2010. Cera has also established himself as the touring bass player in Mister Heavenly, an indie rock band from the United States northwest, and is a member of the band The Long Goodbye, as well as Clark Duke. Cera performed bass and sang back up during songs in both Scott Pilgrim vs. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Through his official Bandcamp website, he unveiled his full length debut album True That on August 8, 2014. The album includes 19 original songs, a remix of Roderick Falconer's "Play It Again," as well as a a review of Blaze Foley's "Clay Pigeons."

Alden Penner, a Canadian musician, dropped "Meditate," a track from his forthcoming EP Canada in Space, which also features Cera, in early 2015. Penner revealed on Twitter that the EP would be released on June 29, 2015, as well as a European tour of the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, and Germany, which featured Cera as both co-headliner and member of Penner's backing band. At the 2017 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, the song "Best I Can" from Dina, written and performed by Cera, was nominated for "Best Song in a Documentary."

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