Jason Sudeikis
Jason Sudeikis | |
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 Sudeikis at the 2009 New York Television Festival | |
| Born | Daniel Jason Sudeikis |
| Spouse | Kay Cannon (2004-2010) (divorced) |
Daniel Jason Sudeikis[1] (Template:Pron-en; sə-DAY-kis; born September 18, 1975) is an American actor and comedian.
Personal life
Sudeikis was born in Fairfax, Virginia to parents Dan and Kathy.[citation needed] He moved to Overland Park, Kansas with his family as a child. Sudeikis considers Overland Park to be his hometown.[2] He attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School, both of which are located in Overland Park. He began high school at the Jesuit Rockhurst High School in 1991, later transferring to Shawnee Mission West High School, where he was a point guard for the boys' basketball team, graduating in 1994. Sudeikis is proud of being from Kansas and often references Kansas in SNL sketches.[2] Sudeikis is also a long time die-hard Kansas Jayhawks fan[2][3] and has worked KU themes and well known Lawrence, Kansas locations into several sketches on SNL.
Sudeikis was married to actress and 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon but they have now divorced. He is the nephew of actor and frequent 1990s-era Saturday Night Live guest star George Wendt[citation needed] - known for his role as "Norm" from Cheers. He has two sisters, Lindsay and Kristin. Kristin is a budding actress and dancer in New York City, and has also appeared in an episode of 30 Rock.
Career
In 2003, Sudeikis was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live at the recommendation of Jeff Richmond, husband of then head writer Tina Fey, when he was performing at The Second City in Las Vegas and later, in May 2005, became a featured player on the show. He became famous for his impersonation of American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, as well as one-half of the A-Hole duo with Kristen Wiig (one of many sketches in which the two are paired). He was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of the show's 32nd season on September 30, 2006. He is currently in his 6th season as an SNL cast member.
Before being hired by Saturday Night Live, Sudeikis performed at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City, where he co-founded a sketch comedy troupe called Der Monkenpickle. After moving to Chicago, Sudeikis studied at iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) where he was one of the founding members of the legendary long-form team JTS Brown, whose form is now part of the curriculum in Level 5 classes at iO. He was later cast in The Second City's National Touring Company and has performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. While with The Second City, he became a founding member of Second City Las Vegas. He has also studied at ImprovOlympic and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, and frequently performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York.
Sudeikis had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock 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. He is expected to appear again on the episode airing March 25, 2010.
He also plays the role of extreme right-wing talk show host Richard Bastion on the fictional radio station WKTT, in Grand Theft Auto IV. He was recently in the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher led comedy What Happens in Vegas as Cameron Diaz's character's ex-fiancé.
In July 2008, Sudeikis co-starred in the web series The Line on Crackle.[4]
Sudeikis most recently appeared in the film The Bounty Hunter, released in March of 2010. He co-starred alongside Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, playing Aniston's colleague, who falls in love with her and mistakenly assumes she is his girlfriend.[5]
Sudeikis is currently a recurring voice actor on Seth MacFarlane's newest animated comedy series The Cleveland Show on FOX. Sudeikis provides the voice for Holt Rickter, Cleveland's wannabe hipster neighbor, as well as the voice of Terry Kimple, Cleveland's hard-partying high school buddy, who he now works with at the cable company.
Saturday Night Live
Recurring characters
- Male A-Hole ("Two A-Holes...") with Kristen Wiig as the Female A-Hole
- 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 weeks guest host) that he often arrests.
- "What Up With That?" Dancer, a hip-hop dancer usually dressed in a red and white RUN-DMC-style Adidas tracksuit, often seen as one of the background performers on the "What Up With That?" talk show.
- One half of Bon Jovi opposite band 'Jon Bovi' appearing on weekend update with Will Forte
Celebrity impressions
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Filmography
| Film | |||
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| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
| 1998 | Alien Avengers II | Chester | |
| 2007 | The Ten | Tony Contiella | |
| 2007 | Watching the Detectives | Jonathan | |
| 2007 | Meet Bill | Jim Whittman | |
| 2008 | The Rocker | David Marshall | |
| 2008 | Semi-Pro | Nacho Fan | |
| 2008 | What Happens in Vegas | Mason | |
| 2009 | A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | N/A | (completed) |
| 2010 | The Bounty Hunter | Stewart | |
| Going the Distance | Box | (post-production) | |
| The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Henry | (pre-production) | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003–present | Saturday Night Live | Various | 91 episodes |
| 2007 | Wainy Days | Handsome David | Episode: Plugged |
| 2007-08 | 30 Rock | Floyd | 8 Episodes |
| 2008 | Grand Theft Auto IV | Richard Bastion | VG (Voice Role) |
| Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08 | Joe Biden/Various | (also archive footage) | |
| Children's Hospital | Dr. Robert "Bobby" Fiscus | Episode 1.5 Episode 1.7 | |
| Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday | Various | Episode 1.1 Episode 1.3 Episode 2.1 Episode 2.2 Episode 2.3 | |
| 2009 | The Cleveland Show | Holt | Episode: Pilot Episode: Da Daggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance Episode: The One About Friends Episode: Birth of a Salesman Episode: Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb Episode: Ladies' Night |
See also
References
- ^ Jason Sudeikis Biography. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ a b c Niccum, Jon (2005-10-28). "'Saturday Night' fever". www2.ljworld.com. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
- ^ Stevens, Hamtpon (2008-08-19). "JASON SUDEIKIS CHECKS IN:"I'M A LEFTY FROM KANSAS!"". sports.espn.go.com. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
- ^ "And the newest cast member of SNL is ..." TV Squad. 2008-08-21. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "News: Jason Sudeikis joins the Bounty Hunter cast". http://www.gerardjamesbutler.co.uk.
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External links
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- MySpace
- We Are Movie Geeks Interview
- Childrens' Hospital -- streaming episodes on the WB
- Jason Sudeikis at SNL.org