Paul Rudd

At 55 years old, Paul Rudd has this physical status:

Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

He studied theater at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1992 with NBC's drama series Sisters. Rudd is best known for his roles in the films Clueless (1995), A New Beginning (2010), Knocked Up (2007), This Is the Beginning of a Wallflower (2008), This Is a Wallflower (2008), This Is 40 (2004), The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), This Is 40 (2006), I Love You, Man (2008), This Is 40 (1995), The Legend of Being a Wallflower (2018), This Is 40 (2006), This Is 40 (2006)

Scott Lang / Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Rudd has appeared on numerous television shows, including the NBC sitcom Friends as Mike Hannigan, as well as guest appearances on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Parks and Recreation has hosted Saturday Night Live.

He currently stars in two parts of Netflix's Life with Yourself, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

In July 2015, he was named on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a celebrity.

In 2019, he was ranked as one of the Forbes Celebrity 100.

Early life

Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of English-born Jewish parents. Michael Rudd (1943-2008), a tour guide and former vice president of TWA, was his father. Gloria Irene Granville Granville, his mother, served as a sales manager at Kansas City, Missouri's television station KSMO-TV. Both his parents were from London, with his father hailing from Edgware and his mother from Surbiton, and both of them were descendants of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants who immigrated to England from Belarus, Poland, and Russia. Rudd's paternal family's name, Rudnitsky, was changed by his grandfather to Rudd, and his maternal family's surname was originally Goldstein; his parents were second cousins. Rudd held a Bar Mitzvah service in Ontario, Canada. As a child, he loved reading The Beano and The Dandy, which his uncle in the United Kingdom sent him.

Rudd's family immigrated to Lenexa, Kansas, when he was ten years old. His family lived in Anaheim, California, due to his father's work. Rudd attended Broadmoor Junior High School in Johnson County and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in 1987. He attended the University of Kansas, where he majored in theater and was active in Sigma Nu fraternity's Nu Chapter. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with fellow actor Matthew Lillard. At the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, he spent three months researching Jacobean drama. He served as a DJ at bar mitzvahs while attending acting school. He worked at the Holiday Ham Company in Overland Park, Michigan, for a variety of odd jobs, including glazing hams.

Personal life

Rudd married Julie Yaeger, a publicist's office where she worked in 2003. Since becoming a screenwriter and producer, Yaeger has been working as a screenwriter and director. They live in Rhinebeck, New York, with their two children, Jack Sullivan, born in 2006, and Darby, a 2010 boy.

Rudd is a fan of MLB's Kansas City Royals, Kansas Jayhawks football, and the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, for whom he narrated HBO's Hard Knocks' 2007 season.

Rudd became a member of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 1, 2015. On Hollywood Boulevard, he unveiled the 2,554th star. "I remember being a kid and strolling this boulevard and learning the names and wondering what so many others are worried about, which is, you know, 'Who's that?'" He said.

Rudd is a promoter of the Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY), a non-profit group dedicated to supporting young people who stutter. On January 22, 2018, He held its 6th Annual All-Star Bowling Benefit. After starring a character who stuttered in a play, he told Vanity Fair that he became an advocate for stuttering consciousness. He is also the founder of The Big Slick, a huge sporting event in Kansas City every June to benefit Kansas City's Children's Mercy Hospital.

Rudd and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, a candy store in Rhinebeck, New York, have been co-owners of Samuel's Sweet Shop since 2014, when the former owner, a friend of theirs, died unexpectedly.

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Career

Rudd made his acting debut in 1991, when he appeared in a Super Nintendo commercial. Rudd appeared in the television drama Sisters, in which he portrayed Kirby Quimby Philby. He appeared in Wild Oats for six episodes in 1994. Rudd left Sisters in 1995 to appear in the comedy film Clueless with Alicia Silverstone. Tommy Doyle, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, The Locusts, Overnight Delivery, The Object of My Affection, and 200 Cigarettes were also included in "The Curse of Michael Myers as Tommy Doyle, The Curse of Myers. He appeared in the 1999 film The Cider House Rules, which received a SAG award for Outstanding Achievement by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

In Benny Chan's 2000 Hong Kong action film Gen-Y Cops, he played FBI Agent Ian Curtis. Mike Hannigan, who appeared and then marries Phoebe Buffay played by Lisa Kudrow, appeared on the sitcom Friends in 2002. He appeared in several Reno 911 episodes in 2006. In the Reno 911, Guy Gerricault (pronounced "jericho"), the teacher of a lamaze class, was first depicted as a drug lord. Film from Miami. In the 2007 episode "Debasement Tapes," Desmond Fellows, a has-been 1990s rock star, appeared on the television show "Veronica Mars."

The year 2004 was the start of his professional career with director/producer Judd Apatow, first on the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy as Brian Fantana, directed by Apatow and then in 2005 with Carell and Seth Rogen. He appeared in Knocked Up's 2007 as a nefarious husband Pete, married to Leslie Mann's character. He co-starred with Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, and Jay Baruchel in the film. He was also the narrator for the 2007 version of the long-running sports documentary film Hard Knocks, as the team (the Kansas City Chiefs) was the team he supports. This was the only season not to feature the series' regular narrator, Liev Schnarrator.

Rudd appeared in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story in 2007 and as the heroin-addled surf instructor in Nicholas Stoller's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which Apatow produced. Rudd appeared in uncredited cameos in Year one (2009) and Bridesmaids (2011). He appeared and also co-produced with Apatow on the film Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston in 2012. Leslie Mann, a spinoff from Knocked Up, which was directed and produced by Apatow, starred him in the comedy film This Is 40. Brian Fantana appeared in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, and he reprised his role.

He appeared in The Oh in Ohio and The Ten, which reunited him with David Wain and Michael Showalter, and then in Over Her Dead Body with Eva Longoria in 2007. Role Models, he and co-star Seann William Scott, are compelled to do community service as part of a child mentoring program in a new comedy.

Rudd appeared with Jason Segel in I Love You Man, where he and Segel play buddies who bond over their mutual admiration for the rock band Rush in 2009. Rudd and Segel are both avid followers of the band. Rudd co-created the TV series Party Down with John Embom, Rob Thomas, and Dan Etheridge, who co-created it in 2009. Monsters Vs. Aliens, a DreamWorks computer-animated film.

Rudd appeared with Steve Carell for the first time since The 40-Year-Old Virgin was reunited with Rudd for the first time since the Jay Roach-directed comedy Dinner for Schmucks. In 2012, he was instrumental in the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, playing Mr. Anderson, a Charlie tutor played by Logan Lerman. Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer appeared in the 2011 comedy-drama film Our Idiot Brother. It was Rudd's fifth film he appeared in with Elizabeth Banks. He appeared in Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Baxter (2005), The 40-Year Virgin (2005), and Role Models (2008).

Rudd joined NBC's Parks and Recreation as Bobby Newport, a contender for City Council and a rival of Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope, a role for which he received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Feature Performer in a Comedy Series in 2012. He began doing voiceovers for Hyundai television advertisements in 2014. He has also appeared on John Hodgman's books The Areas of My Knowledge (2004) and More Information Than You Require (2008).

Rudd was officially announced as cast in the 2015 Marvel film Ant-Man on December 19, 2013. Scott Lang/Ant-Man was his lead character. Rudd reprised his role in Captain America: Civil War (2016) as well as Ant-Man and the Wasp's 2018 sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp; he also co-wrote the latter. Rudd appeared in Avengers: Endgame (2019), which received critical acclaim and went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, alongside Evangeline Lilly. With Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, he is expected to reprise his role in 2023.

Rudd reprised his role as Andy from Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp on Netflix, alongside a supporting cast including Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, and Elizabeth Banks, all reprising their roles from the 2001 film. He appeared in the comedy-drama film The Fundamentals of Caring, alongside Selena Gomez, in 2016 and lends his voice to the animated films The Little Prince and Sausage Party. In the animated comedy film Nerdland (2016), he and Patton Oswalt lent their voices to a struggling actor named John. Rudd appeared in The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), playing Moe Berg, a catcher for the Boston Red Sox who joined the OSS during World War II.

Rudd appeared alongside Aisling Bea in Netflix's comedy series Living with Yourself in August 2018. He also produced the series, which premiered on October 18, 2019.

Rudd would announce the clip that is going to be shown from 2004 to 2021, but would jump to a clip from 1989 film Mac and Me instead. Rudd admitted that he "never knew" that the running gag would last so long. "It's so difficult." I am here because I am. My wares will be on television. 'Here's something from what I just shot,' I guess.' It just seemed — and it does still does to a great extent — that it was "sincere," he said.

Rudd has appeared in Broadway plays before, the first being The Last Night of Ballyhoo as Joe Farkas in 1997. Kyra Sedgwick and Max Wright at the Lincoln Center Theatre appeared in Twelfth Night next year. In 2006, he appeared in Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain with Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts at the Bernard Jacobs Theater in New York City. Rudd appeared in Craig Wright's Grace at the Cort Theatre in 2012. Michael Shannon, Kate Arrington, and seven-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner appeared alongside Rudd.

He appeared in "Adam" in Neil LaBute's original London production of "The Shape of Things" in 2001 and then Off-Broadway for three months beginning in October 2001. The film was shot with the entire original cast two years ago.

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