Paul Rudd

Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American film, television, and stage actor who has appeared in many films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,Anchorman The Lost Film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Role Models, I Love You, Man, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame. He portrays Mike Hannigan on Friends.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Jewish immigrants from England; his family's original surname was "Rudnitzky". His father, Michael Rudd, is a historical tour guide who was formerly the vice president of World Airways, while Rudd's mother managed a television station. He was raised in Overland Park, Kansas. He attended high school at Shawnee Mission West, and college at the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.
===Career===
Rudd's breakout performance was in the 1995 film Clueless. Additional credits include Wet Hot American Summer, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, The Cider House Rules, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Friends (in the recurring role of Mike Hannigan, who married Phoebe Buffay in 2004), The Object of My Affection with Jennifer Aniston and Tim Daly, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. While he played the original Josh in Clueless, he returned to play the character of Sonny when the movie was adapted into a television show in 1996. Rudd's Broadway credits include The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997), Twelfth Night (1998), and Three Days of Rain (2006). He recently guest-starred as a has-been 1990s rock star, Desmond Fellows, on the television series, Veronica Mars, in an episode titled "Debasement Tapes". He has also appeared in the audiobook recording of John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.
In 2006, he appeared in several episodes of Reno 911! as the coach of a birthing class, and portrayed a drug lord in the film Reno 911!: Miami. In 2007, he appeared in the films Knocked Up (his third collaboration with Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen), and The Ten (which reunites him with frequent collaborators David Wain and Michael Showalter). The same year, Rudd provided his voice for the narration of the HBO/NFL Films series Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Kansas City Chiefs. In 2008, Rudd starred in Over Her Dead Body, opposite Eva Longoria, I Could Never Be Your Woman, a direct-to-video release opposite Michelle Pfeiffer (reuniting him with Clueless director Amy Heckerling), Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Role Models. He also appeared on Little Britain USA as the French President. In 2009, he starred in I Love You, Man with Jason Segel.
As part of a running gag during his appearances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Rudd brings clips from the infamous film Mac and Me, where the wheelchair-bound Eric (Jade Calegory) flies off a cliff while Mac watches on, instead of showing clips from the actual movie he is there to promote. Every movie that Paul Rudd drinks a beer, it is always Sierra Nevada.
===Personal life===
In 2003, he married his girlfriend of five years, Julie Yaeger. In 2006, their son, Jack, was born and 2010, their daughter, Darby was born.
== Trivia ==
* Both Rudd and Jennifer Aniston starred in The Object of My Affection (1998) and again in Wanderlust (2010).
* Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon co-starred in the romcom How Do You Know (2010). 
==Filmography==
===Film===
 
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1995	Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers	Tommy Doyle 	Film debut
1995	Clueless 	Josh 	
1996	Romeo + Juliet 	Dave Paris 	
1996	The Size of Watermelons 	Alex 	
1997	The Locusts 	Earl 	
1998	Overnight Delivery 	Wyatt Trips 	
1998	The Object of My Affection 	George Hanson 	
1999	200 Cigarettes 	Kevin 	
1999	The Cider House Rules 	Wally Worthington 	
2000	Gen Y Cops 	Ian Curtis 	
2000	The Great Gatsby 	Nick Carraway 	
2001	Wet Hot American Summer 	Andy 	
2001	Reaching Normal 	Kenneth 	
2001	The Château 	Graham Granville 	
2003	The Shape of Things 	Adam Sorenson 	
2003	Two Days 	Paul Miller 	
2003	House Hunting 	Daniel 	
2004	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 	Brian Fantana 	
2004	P.S. 	Sammy Silverstein 	
2004	Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie 	Brian Fantana 	
2005	The Baxter 	Dan Abbott 	
2005	The 40 Year-Old Virgin 	David 	
2005	Tennis, Anyone...? 	Lance Rockwood 	
2006	The Oh in Ohio 	Jack Chase 	
2006	Diggers 	Hunt 	
2006	Night at the Museum 	Don 	
2007	Reno 911: Miami 	Ethan the Drug lord	
2007	I Could Never Be Your Woman 	Adam 	
2007	The Ex 	Leon 	Cameo
2007	Knocked Up 	Pete 	
2007	The Ten 	Jeff Reigert 	Also producer
2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 	John Lennon 	Cameo
2008	Over Her Dead Body 	Henry 	
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall 	Chuck or "Kunu" 	
2008	Role Models 	Danny 	also writer
2009	I Love You, Man 	 	
2015	Ant-Man 	Scott Lang/Ant-Man 	
2016	Captain America: Civil War 	Scott Lang/Ant-Man 	
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp 	Scott Lang/Ant-Man 	
2019	Avengers: Endgame 	Scott Lang/Ant-Man 	
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1992-1995	Sisters 	Kirby Quimby Philby 	Recurring guest star
1994 	Wild Oats 	Brian Grant 	Series regular
1996 	Clueless 	Sonny 	Guest star, episode: "I Got You Babe"
2000 	Deadline 	Zander Price 	Guest star, episode: "Lovers and Madmen"
2000 	Strangers with Candy 	Brent Brooks 	Guest star, episode: "The Last Temptation of Blank"
2002-2004	Friends 	Mike Hannigan 	Recurring guest star
2005 	Stella 	Greg 	Guest star, episode: "Office Party"
2006 	Cheap Seats 	Dave Penders 	Guest star, episode: "1996 Spelling Bee: Part 2"
2006 	Robot Chicken 	Jasper the Douchebag Ghost, Ang Lee	Guest star, episode: "Book of Corrine"
2006-2007	Reno 911! 	Guy Gerricault 	Recurring guest star
2007 	The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show 	Antagonistic Passenger 	Guest star, episode: "Gold Watch"
2007 	Veronica Mars 	Desmond Fellows 	Guest star, episode: "Debasement Tapes"
2007 	Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Kansas City Chiefs	Himself 	Narrator
2008 	Little Britain USA 	French president 	Guest Star
2008 	Saturday Night Live 	Himself 	Host (November 15)
2009 	Delocated 	Himself 	Guest Star (February 13)
2011,
2014	The Simpsons 	 	
==External links==
* Paul Rudd at the Internet Movie Database
* Paul Rudd at the Internet Broadway Database
* Paul Rudd on National Public Radio
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