Mike Myers

At 61 years old, Mike Myers has this physical status:

Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and director with citizenship in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

He is best known for his appearances on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995, as well as the Shrek and Snake film franchises.

Shep Gordon made his directorial debut with the documentary Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013).

He hasn't been acting since 2012, though he had support roles in Terminal and Bohemian Rhapsody (both 2018).

Early life

Michael John Myers was born in Toronto's Scarborough district on May 25, 1963, to data processor Alice "Bunny" E. (née Hind) and insurance agent Eric Myers. His parents were English immigrants from Liverpool's Old Swan neighborhood. Both were World War II veterans, with his mother serving in the Royal Air Force and his father in the British Army. He has distant Scottish ancestry. He has two older brothers, Paul, a guitarist, and Peter, a Sears Canada performer. He grew up in Scarborough and North York, where he attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute. In 1982, he graduated from Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.

Maurice LaMarche, one of his many neighbors and classmates, was a well-known voice actor.

Personal life

Myers began dating actress and comedian Robin Ruzan in the late 1980s after meeting in Chicago, where Myers picked up a puck and used the occasion as an icebreaker to spark a discussion with Ruzan. Myers later referred to Ruzan as "his muse" after the couple married on May 22, 1993. In December 2005, the couple filed for divorce.

Kelly Tisdale confirmed that she and Myers were dating in 2006. In late 2010, Myers and Tisdale married in New York City in a secrecy. Tisdale is a former cafe owner and a scenic artist who works in entertainment. They have a son and two daughters. They live in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City.

Myers, a Dungeons & Dragons participant, was one of many celebrities to have taken part in the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day in 2006. He supports the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team and named two characters in the first Austin Powers film Commander Gilmour and General Borschevsky, after then-Maple Leafs players Doug Gilmour and Nikolai Borschevsky. He is also a fan of Liverpool FC, his parents' hometown football team.

Myers has played for Hollywood United FC, a professional soccer team. He competed in the 2010 Soccer Aid for UNICEF UK football match, England vs. R.O.W (Rest of the World), and scored his penalty after the game ended 2–2 on June 6, 2010. For the first time since the tournament began, the Rest of the World Team defeated England.

Myers appeared in a commercial for Sears Canada with brother Peter in 2014, using "humorous banter" to spread the word that Sears wasn't closing down amid rumors. Peter was at the time senior director of planning at Sears' head office in Toronto, and he was fired in 2017 after Sears Canada filed for bankruptcy.

Myers' book, Canada, a memoir interwoven with reflections on his native country's past, popular culture, and the renaissance portrayed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's election in 2016.

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Career

Myers began performing in commercials at two years old. He produced a commercial for British Columbia Hydro at the age of ten, with Gilda Radner playing his mother. He made a guest appearance on the TV show King of Kensington at 12 years old. He appeared on the television show "Boy on Wheels" in season 1 of the Littlest Hobo at 16 years old at 16.

After graduating from high school, Myers was accepted into The Second City Canadian touring company. He migrated to the United Kingdom and was one of the founding members of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational company based at The Comedy Store in London in 1985.

In collaboration with Neil Mullarkey, he appeared on the British children's television program Wide Awake Club, parodying the show's natural aplomb with his own "Sound Asleep Club" this year.

He appeared in The Second City's main stage performance, Second City Theatre, in 1986. He went from Second City in Toronto to Chicago in 1988. He was prepared, competed, and instructed at the Improv Olympics.

Myers appeared on many television shows, including Wayne Campbell on Toronto's Citytv in the early 1980s; myers also appeared on several television shows after Christopher Ward's unveiling of City Limits, which was essentially the prototype. In Ward's Canadian hit "Boys and Girls," myers appeared as Wayne Campbell in a music video.

In the 1986 summer series It's Only Rock & Roll, produced by Toronto's Insight Production Company for CBC Television, Wayne Campbell's character was prominent. Wayne appeared both in-studio and in a sequence of location sketches edited and edited by Allan Novak. Myers co-starred with Dana Andersen of Second City and later directed by Novak, which later became the famous "Sprockets" sketch on Saturday Night Live.

Myers first appeared on Saturday Night Live on January 21, 1989, becoming the first repertory actor to the program's cast in over two years. According to Entertainment Weekly, "he quickly became one of the show's top draws thanks to his ability for constructing strangeball characters with memorable catch phrases." Myers appeared in "Lothar of the Hill People," "Stuart Rankin, All Things Scottish," "Mimon", "Mimon," "Reality Presenter," "The Hyper Hypothesis," "Wayne's World" and "Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly," in addition to "Wayne's World" and "Sprockets." On January 21, 1995, Myers' last episode as a cast member aired (exactly six years to the day). In 1997, he returned to host and made a cameback as Dr. Corey, his film role. In 2014, Evil was back in its first place.

When Myers and Dana Carvey adapted their "Wayne's World" Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketches into the film Wayne's World (1992), he made his film debut. It was one of the year's best films of the year, and Wayne's World 2 followed it in 1993; Myers appeared in So I Married an Axe Murderer the same year. After the completion of his time as an SNL regular, he went on a two-year absence from performing.

Myers returned to acting in Austin Powers: The International Man of Mystery (1997), followed by Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). Myers played both the hero (Austin Powers) and the villain (Dr. Bruton). In both three films, evil (Fat Bastard) and another villain (Goldmember) are included, as well as a henchman (Fat Bastard) and another villain (Goldmember) in the sequels.

In the film 54 (1998), which portrayed Steve Rubell, the director of New York City's historic 1970s disco nightclub Studio 54, one of Myers' rare non-comedic roles appeared. The film was not particularly or commercially profitable, though Myers received some encouraging news.

Myers was sued by Universal Pictures for $3.8 million for withdrawing from a deal to produce a SNL film based on his SNL character Dieter. Myers said he refused to honor the US$20 million deal because his script was not ready. Myers retaliated and a deal was reached after Myers promised to make another film with Universal for several months. Myers appeared in The Cat in the Hat in November 2003, and the title character was played by Myers. It received poor feedback and was unsuccessful at the box office.

Myers, the original scripted voice actor, died in December 1997 before recording all of his dialogue. In 2003, Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2006), and Shrek Forever After (2010) all appeared in Shrek 4-D (a theme park ride).

Myers was named the second Canadian to win the MTV Generation Award in June 2007, after Jim Carriery in 2006.

Myers co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in The Love Guru, a poorly received book, in 2008, and in 2009, he appeared as British general Ed Fenech in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

Myers appeared in supporting roles in Terminal (2018) and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), following an eight-year absence from feature film.

Myers sent a cryptic note in May 2022 that indicated that an Austin Powers 4 would be forthcoming.

Myers appeared in Britney Spears' "Boys" as Austin Powers, in my "Boys" video. In turn, Britney Spears appeared in Goldmember's Austin Powers as "Boys." He was voted one of the top comedy acts by fellow comedians and comedy insiders in a 2005 poll.

Myers, as well as Ming Tea guitarist and vocalist Susanna Hoffs and singer Matthew Sweet, are members of the band Ming Tea. They performed "BBC" and "Daddy Wasn't There" from the Austin Powers films. Myers performed a one-night stand-back of his appearance with The Comedy Store Players in 2011. Chortle, a UK comedy website, praised his performance.

In the Gala Presentation section of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, Myers' 2013 directorial debut, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, was selected to be shown. Myers hosted a revived version of The Gong Show in heavy makeup as Tommy Maitland, a fictional British host, although his identity was not confirmed until the second season.

In July 2014, Myers, an avid fan of Monty Python's comedian, performed on stage at the O2 Arena on the final night of their ten-date live show Monty Python Live (Mostly), and also appears on Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

Myers will appear in and executive produce a Netflix comedy series in April 2019, which will feature him as multiple characters. The Pentaverate, which is a spin-off of So I Married an Axe Murderer, was announced in June 2021.

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