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Jason Sudeikis

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Jason Sudeikis
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Sudeikis at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivalpremiere of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.
BornDaniel Jason Sudeikis
September 18, 1975 (age 40)
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationActor, voice actor, writer,comedian
Years active2003–present
Home townOverland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Spouse(s)Kay Cannon (2004–2010; divorced)
Partner(s)Olivia Wilde (2011–present; engaged)
Children1
Daniel Jason Sudeikis (/sʉˈdeɪkɪs/ sə-day-kis; born September 18, 1975) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter and comedian. He began his career in improv comedy. In 2003, he was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live and became a cast member from 2005 to 2013. He has appeared on television in 30 Rock, The Cleveland Show, Eastbound & Down, and other shows. He is also known for his roles in the films Hall Pass (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), Epic (2013), We're the Millers (2013), and Horrible Bosses 2 (2014).

Early life[edit]

Sudeikis was born Daniel Jason Sudeikis[1] in Fairfax, Virginia. His mother, Kathryn (née Wendt), was formerly a travel agent at Brennco and was president of the American Society of Travel Agents. His father, Daniel Joseph Sudeikis, is a vice president of business development.[2][3][4][5] His uncle (mother's brother) is actor George Wendt, who is best known for his role as Norm Peterson on Cheers,[6] and his maternal grandmother's father was photographer Tom Howard.[7] Sudeikis is of Lithuanian and Irish descent on his father's side, and German and Irish ancestry on his mother's.[8][9]
As a child, Sudeikis moved with his family to Overland Park, Kansas, which he has described as his hometown.[10] He attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School; both are located in Overland Park. He began high school at the Jesuit Rockhurst High School in 1990, later transferring to Shawnee Mission West High School.
Sudeikis occasionally referenced Kansas in Saturday Night Live sketches.[10] He is also a longtime Kansas Jayhawks fan[10][11] and has worked University of Kansas themes and well-known Lawrence, Kansas, locations into several sketches on SNL.

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Sudeikis began performing at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City. After moving to Chicago, Sudeikis studied at the Annoyance Theatre and ImprovOlympic, where he was one of the founding members of the long-form team J.T.S. Brown.
He was later cast in The Second City's National Touring Company, and also performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. In the early 2000s, he became a founding member of Second City Las Vegas. He continues to frequently perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre's weekly improv show ASSSCAT 3000 in New York City.

Saturday Night Live[edit]

In 2003, while a regular performer at Second City Las Vegas, Sudeikis was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live, and would occasionally make bit appearances as audience members or extras. In May 2005, he became a featured player on the show, and was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of the show's 32nd season on September 30, 2006. In July 2013, Sudeikis announced that he was leaving Saturday Night Live.[12]

Recurring characters[edit]

Main article: Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed by cast member)
  • Male A-hole of the Two A-Holes with Kristen Wiig
  • Gil, a news anchor who treats his field correspondent Michelle Dison's (Kristen Wiig) misfortunes as amusement
  • One of the guys from the "Song Memories" sketches who is the first to tell strange stories about where he was when he first heard a song
  • Ed Mahoney, a brash man who often makes a fool of himself in public
  • Officer Sikorsky, a police officer who brings in convict Lorenzo McIntosh (Kenan Thompson) in an attempt to "scare straight" the three delinquent teens (Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Andy Samberg, and occasionally the week's guest host) that he often arrests. In the earlier sketches, Officer Sikorsky's last name was Matthews.
  • Dancer on What Up with That, an overzealous background dancer often dressed in a red and white Adidas tracksuit with a 1980s man perm. The Ed Helms/Paul Simon episode reveals that his real name is Vance.
  • One half of Bon Jovi opposite band 'Jon Bovi' appearing on weekend update with Will Forte
  • DJ Supersoak. Spoof on Psychopathic Records recording artist DJ Clay. Emcee for Kickspit Underground Music with Lil' Blaster (Nasim Pedrad) and MC George Castanza (Jay Pharoah). He has appeared in the "Underground Rock Minute", the "Crunkmas Karnival", the "Kickspit Underground Easter Festival", the "Columbus Day Assblast" and the "Donkey Punch the Ballot" sketches.
  • Pete Twinkle, ESPN Classic host of obscure women's sports with dim-witted Greg Stink (Will Forte) as his co-host
  • Jeff, a disgruntled film and theatre technician who starts unprovoked arguments with the star of the piece.
  • The Devil, who often comes on Weekend Update to point out religious and moral hypocrisy on Earth. On the Emma Stone/Coldplay episode, the Devil gets so upset over the Penn State University sex scandal that he quits his job as The Prince of Darkness and returns to his old job as a customer service representative for Time Warner Cable.[13]
  • Jack Rizzoli, an anchor at WXPD News who always tells veteran reporter Herb Welch (Bill Hader) to do his job.
  • Tommy, a strip club M.C. for Bongo's Clown Room
  • Sensei Mark Hoffman, the faculty adviser and Japanese Studies teacher to Jonathan Cavanaugh-san and Rebecca Stern-Markowitz-san (Taran Killam and Vanessa Bayer, respectively), hosts of "J-Pop America Fun Time Now". Considers Jonathan and Rebecca to be the worst students in his Japanese studies class due to their stereotypical perceptions of Japanese culture and is only on the show because university policy states that one of the teachers have to be present if students are using the campus studio.
  • Marshall T. Boudreaux: The host of the courtroom reality show, Maine Justice. Originally, the character was an archetypical Southern gentleman known as Mr. Aymong who appeared on a one-shot sketch on the season 35 episode hosted by Blake Lively where a Southern man ruins his chances of being hired to NASA by eating his interviewer's potato chip.

Other work[edit]

Sudeikis had a recurring role on the NBC series 30 Rock with friend Tina Fey in early 2007, appearing in a total of seven episodes. He played Floyd DeBarber, a love interest of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon. He made another appearance as Floyd in a 2008 episode, and appeared again in the Valentine's Day episode airing February 11, 2010, along with Jon Hamm and Dean Winters. Sudeikis last appeared in three episodes towards the end of the show's 4th season in 2010.
Sudeikis did voice work for the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV, playing the role of right-wing radio host Richard Bastion. He also appeared in the 2008 comedy What Happens in Vegas, playing the role of Cameron Diaz's character's ex-fiancé. In July 2008, Sudeikis co-starred with Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio in the Lorne Michaels-produced web-series The Line on Crackle.[14]
Sudeikis appeared in the film The Bounty Hunter, released in March 2010. He co-starred alongside Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, playing a colleague of Aniston's character, who falls in love with her.[15]
Sudeikis with co-stars Charlie Dayand Jason Bateman at the 2011 premiere of Horrible Bosses.
Sudeikis was a voice actor on the FOX animated comedy series The Cleveland Show. Sudeikis provided the voice for Holt Richter, Cleveland's wannabe hipster neighbor, as well as the voice of Terry Kimple, Cleveland's hard-partying high school buddy, who now works with Cleveland at the cable company. After previously being credited as a recurring guest in season one, Sudeikis was bumped up to a series regular beginning in season two.
In May 2010, Sudeikis joined the cast of the 2011 Seth Gordon comedy Horrible Bosses, which also starred Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Charlie Day, and Jason Bateman.[16]Sudeikis co-hosted WWE Raw with Going the Distance co-stars Charlie Day and Justin Long on August 16, 2010, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.[17] Sudeikis also played his first lead film role, alongsideOwen Wilson, in the 2011 Farrelly brothers comedy Hall Pass. He had worked with Day when he played the role of Schmitty on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and reprised the role on that show's 7th season finale.
He hosted the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on June 5, 2011, at the Gibson Amphitheatre.[18][19][20]
In 2012, Sudeikis had a recurring role on the third season of the HBO series Eastbound & Down playing Shane, Kenny Powers's battery mate on the Myrtle Beach Mermen, and Shane's twin brother, Cole.[21]
Sudeikis became the voice for a line of advertisements of the Applebee's casual dining chain that began running in 2012.[22]
Sudeikis features in the video for Mumford and Sons song "Hopeless Wanderer".[23]
Sudeikis has portrayed Ted Lasso, a hapless American football coach brought to England to coach the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, as part of two promotional videos for NBC Sports in 2013 and 2014 for their coverage of the Barclays Premier League.

Personal life[edit]

Sudeikis married actress and 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon on June 26, 2004, after having dated five years prior to that. They separated in 2008 and their divorce was finalized in 2010.
Sudeikis began dating actress Olivia Wilde in November 2011, and they became engaged in January 2013. They have one son, Otis Alexander (born April 20, 2014).[24]
Sudeikis has two sisters, Lindsay and Kristin. Lindsay is a teacher at Dominican Academy, an all-girls high school in New York. Kristin is an established choreographer and dancer in New York and has appeared on 30 Rock. On May 11, 2012, his father's family history was traced on the NBC program Who Do You Think You Are?.[25]

Filmography[edit]

Sudeikis at the New York Television Festival, October 17, 2009

Film[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007The TenTony Contiella
2007Watching the DetectivesJonathan
2007Meet BillJim Whittman
2008The RockerDavid Marshall
2008Bang Blow & StrokeDavid MarshallShort film
2008Semi-ProDanny
2008What Happens in VegasMason
2010The Bounty HunterStewart
2010Going the DistanceBox
2011Hall PassFred
2011A Good Old Fashioned OrgyEric Keppler
2011Horrible BossesKurt Buckman
2011My Least Favorite CareerKurt BuckmanShort film
2011Surviving a Horrible BossKurt BuckmanShort film
2012The CampaignMitch
2013Movie 43Batman
2013Drinking BuddiesGene Dentler
2013EpicBomba (voice)
2013We're the MillersDavid Clark
2014Horrible Bosses 2Kurt Buckman
2015Sleeping with Other PeopleJake
2015TumbledownAndrew McDonnell
2015MastermindsMike McKinneyPost-production
2016The Angry Birds MovieRedPre-Production
2016RaceLarry SnyderPost-production
2016The Devil and the Deep Blue SeaHenryPost-production
2016Mother's DayBradleyFilming

Television[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003–2013Saturday Night LiveHimself, Various168 episodes; also writer
2007Wainy DaysHandsome DavidEpisode: "Plugged"
2007–201030 RockFloyd12 episodes
2008Childrens HospitalDr. Robert "Bobby" Fiscus2 episodes
2008–2012Saturday Night Live Weekend Update ThursdayVarious6 episodes
2009–2013The Cleveland ShowHolt Richter, Terry Kimple (voice)80 episodes
2010–2011It's Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaSchmitty2 episodes
2011–2014PortlandiaAliki2 episodes
20112011 MTV Movie AwardsHimself (host)TV Special
2012–2013Eastbound & DownShane Gerald, Cole Gerald6 episodes
2013Robot ChickenBadtz-Maru, Farmer Smurf (voice)Episode: "Papercut to Aorta"
2015The Last Man on EarthMike Miller[26]Episode: "Screw the Moon"

Video games[edit]

YearTitleVoiceNotes
2008Grand Theft Auto IVRichard Bastion

Accolades[edit]

List of awards and nominations
YearAward / Film FestivalCategoryNominated workResultRef.
201440th People's Choice Awards (with Jennifer Aniston)People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie DuoWe're the MillersNominated[27]
2014 MTV Movie AwardsMTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceWe're the MillersNominated[28]
2014 Teen Choice AwardsTeen Choice Award for Choice Hissy FitWe're the MillersNominated[29]
20152015 MTV Movie Awards (with Charlie Day)#WTF MomentHorrible Bosses 2Nominated[30]
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