Paul Rudd

**Paul Stephen Rudd** (born April 6, 1969) is an American actor.

## Early and personal life

Rudd was born on April 6, 1969 in Passaic, New Jersey. His father, Michael Rudd, was a historical tour guide and former vice-president of Trans World Airlines who died of cancer when Rudd was 39. His mother, Gloria Irene (Granville), was a sales manager at the television station KCMO-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. His parents were born in England; his father was from Edgware and his mother from Surbiton, both in London. Rudd's parents were both Jewish (descended from Jewish immigrants who moved to Britain from Russia, Belarus, and Poland). Rudd's parents were second cousins. His father's family's original surname, "Rudnitsky", was changed by his grandfather to "Rudd", and his mother's family's surname was originally "Goldstein". Rudd had a Bar Mitzvah service. Growing up, he loved reading British comics, _The Beano_, and _The Dandy_, which his uncle in the U.K. would send to him.

At age ten, his family moved to Lenexa, Kansas. They spent three years living in Anaheim, California, because of his father's occupation. Rudd attended Broadmoor Junior High and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in the class of 1987. Rudd attended the University of Kansas, where he majored in theater. He was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity's Nu Chapter there. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West in Los Angeles with fellow actor Matthew Lillard. Rudd spent three months studying Jacobean drama at the British American Drama Academy based in Oxford, England. While attending acting school, Rudd worked as a Bar Mitzvah disc jockey.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|Director|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1995|_Clueless_|Josh|Amy Heckerling||
|_Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers_|Tommy Doyle|Joe Chappelle||||
|rowspan="2"|1996|_Romeo + Juliet_|Dave Paris|Baz Luhrmann||
|__|Alex|Kari Skogland||||
|1997|__|Earl|John Patrick Kelley|||
|rowspan="2"|1998|_Overnight Delivery_|Wyatt Trips|Jason Bloom||
|__|George Hanson|Nicholas Hytner||||
|rowspan="2"|1999|_200 Cigarettes_|Kevin|Risa Bramon Garica||
|__|Wally Worthington|Lasse Hallström||||
|2000|_Gen-Y Cops_|Ian Curtis|Benny Chan|||
|rowspan="3"|2001|_Wet Hot American Summer_|Andy|David Wain||
|_Reaching Normal_|Kenneth|Anne Heche||||
|__|Graham Granville|Jesse Peretz||||
|rowspan="3"|2003|__|Adam Sorenson|Neil LaBute||
|_Two Days_|Paul Miller|Sean McGinly||||
|_House Hunting_|Daniel|Amy Lippman|Short film|||
|rowspan="3"|2004|_Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy_|Brian Fantana|Adam McKay||
|_P.S._|Sammy Silverstein|Dylan Kidd||||
|_Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie_|Brian Fantana|Adam McKay|Direct-to-DVD|||
|rowspan="3"|2005|__|Dan Abbott|Michael Showalter||
|__|David|Judd Apatow||||
|_Tennis, Anyone...?_|Lance Rockwood|Donal Logue||||
|rowspan="3"|2006|__|Jack Chase|Billy Kent||
|_Diggers_|Hunt|Katherine Dieckmann||||
|_Night at the Museum_|Don|Shawn Levy||||
|rowspan="6"|2007|_Reno 911!: Miami_|Ethan|Robert Ben Garant||
|_I Could Never Be Your Woman_|Adam Pearl|Amy Heckerling||||
|__|Leon|Jesse Peretz||||
|_Knocked Up_|Pete|Judd Apatow||||
|__|Jeff Reigert|David Wain|Also producer|||
|_Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story_|John Lennon|Jake Kasdan|Uncredited cameo|||
|rowspan="3"|2008|_Over Her Dead Body_|Dr. Henry Mills|Jeff Lowell||
|_Forgetting Sarah Marshall_|Chuck|Nicholas Stoller||||
|_Role Models_|Danny Donahue|David Wain|Also writer|||
|rowspan="3"|2009|_I Love You, Man_|Peter Klaven|John Hamburg||
|_Monsters vs. Aliens_|Derek Dietl (voice)|Conrad Vernon Rob Letterman||||
|_Year One_|Abel|Harold Ramis|Uncredited|||
|rowspan="2"|2010|_Dinner for Schmucks_|Tim Conrad|Jay Roach||
|_How Do You Know_|George Madison|James L. Brooks||||
|2011|_Our Idiot Brother_|Ned|Jesse Peretz|||
|rowspan="3"|2012|_Wanderlust_|George|David Wain|Also producer|
|__|Bill Anderson|Stephen Chbosky||||
|_This Is 40_|Pete|Judd Apatow||||
|rowspan="5"|2013|_Admission_|John|Paul Weitz||
|_Prince Avalanche_|Alvin|David Gordon Green||||
|_This Is the End_|Himself|Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg|Cameo|||
|_All Is Bright_|Rene|Phil Morrison||||
|_Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues_|Brian Fantana|Adam McKay||||
|2014|_They Came Together_|Joel|David Wain|||
|rowspan="2"|2015|_The Little Prince_|Mr. Prince (voice)|Mark Osborne||
|_Ant-Man_|Scott Lang / Ant-Man|Peyton Reed|Also writer|||
|rowspan="4"|2016|_The Fundamentals of Caring_|Ben|Rob Burnett||
|_Sausage Party_|Darren (voice)|Greg Tiernan Conrad Vernon||||
|_Captain America: Civil War_|Scott Lang / Ant-Man|Anthony Russo Joe Russo||||
|_Nerdland_|John (voice)|Chris Prynoski||||
|Narrator|Dale Heslip|||||
|2017|_Fun Mom Dinner_|Brady|Alethea Jones|Also executive producer||
|rowspan="5"|2018|_The Catcher Was a Spy_|Moe Berg|Ben Lewin||
|_A Futile and Stupid Gesture_|Lawrence “Larry” Kroger|David Wain|Cameo|||
|_Ideal Home_|Paul|Andrew Fleming||||
|_Mute_|Cactus Bill|Duncan Jones||||
|_Ant-Man and the Wasp_|rowspan=2|Scott Lang / Ant-Man|Peyton Reed|Also writer||
|2019|_Avengers: Endgame_|Anthony Russo Joe Russo||||

## Other websites

- Interview with Paul Rudd about _Knocked Up_

## Infobox (actor)

- **name**: Paul Rudd
- **image**: Paul Rudd and Kate Mara at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 8 (cropped).jpg
- **image caption**: Rudd in 2024
- **birthname**: Paul Stephen Rudd
- **birth place**: Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.
- **years active**: 1991–present
- **spouse**: Julie Yaeger (2003–present)
- **children**: 2