Michael Cera


MICHAEL CERA
Born: June 7, 1988
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
As a Canadian TV and film actor, Michael Cera began his career in
commercials for a Canadian fast food chain at age 9. He then moved to sitcoms, and landed a role on Fox Family’s comedy series "I Was a Sixth Grade Alien." The baby-faced actor gained most of his exposure acting as the son of Jason Bateman on Fox sitcom "Arrested Development," which portrayed a dysfunctional family of land-tract developers. Later, he played the young, sexually overactive Chuck Barris in the 2002 film Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind.

No stranger to “awkward” or “challenging” roles, he’s become a recent staple of big-screen comedies, co-starring in Superbad, Juno, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Year One. His dry-witted screen persona has brought nothing but laughter to audiences across the nation. Michael has helped reinvent new age humor with his on screen awkwardness and growing fan base.


Career
Cera's career began when he was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian television series Was a Sizth Grade Alin in 1999. In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of Dangerous Mind and he also provided the voice for Brother Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated series, he also voiced Josh Spitz in the cartoon Braceface . He played George Michael Bluth in the award-winning television series Arrested Development for three seasons before it was cancelled. In 2005, he starred as Harold in the award winning short film Darling Darling, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the San Gio Festival in
Verona, Italy . In 2006, he created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing , a video résumé created by Aleksey Vayner. He also guest-starred in an episode of teen noir drama Veronica Mars the episode "The Rapes of Graff" which also featured Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat also in the Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job

Cera, along with best friend Clark Duke wrote and starred in a series of short videos released on their website.[8] In 2007, they signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and Michae The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt and was distributed via CBS's new internet channel, CBS Innertube.Duke and Cera are both members of the band The Long Goodbye.

Cera also appeared in a staged comedy video that shows him being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up after belittling and arguing with the director, in a scene that mocks the David O.Russell blow up on the set of /Heart Huckabees









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