Jason Sudeikis

Jason Sudeikis
Sudeikis at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Daniel Jason Sudeikis September 18, 1975 Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, comedian, screenwriter, voice actor
Years active	2003–present
Home town	Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Kay Cannon (divorced)
Partner(s)	Olivia Wilde (2011–present; engaged)
Children	1

Daniel Jason Sudeikis (/sᵿˈdeɪkɪs/ sə-DAY-kis; born September 18, 1975)^[1] is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and voice actor. He began his career in improv comedy. In 2003, he was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live and was 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), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) and delved into dramatic territory with Race (2016).

Early life

Sudeikis was born Daniel Jason Sudeikis in Fairfax, Virginia.^[1] 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]

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.

He was born with anosmia, leaving him with no sense of smell and virtually no sense of taste.^[12][13]

Career

Early career

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

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.^[14]

Recurring characters

• 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.^[15]
• 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

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.^[16]

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.^[17]

Sudeikis with co-stars Charlie Day and 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.^[18] 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.^[19] Sudeikis also played his first lead film role, alongside Owen 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.^[20][21][22]

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.^[23]

Sudeikis became the voice for a line of advertisements of the Applebee's casual dining chain that began running in 2012.^[24]

Sudeikis features in the video for Mumford and Sons song "Hopeless Wanderer".^[25]

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

He is divorced from writer-producer Kay Cannon.^[26]

Sudeikis and actress Olivia Wilde became engaged in January 2013.^[27] They have one son, Otis Alexander, born April 20, 2014.^[28] In April 2016, Wilde announced she and Sudeikis were expecting their second child.^[29][30]

On May 11, 2012, Sudeikis' father's family history was traced on the NBC program Who Do You Think You Are?.^[31]

Filmography

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

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Ten	Tony Contiella
2007	Watching the Detectives	Jonathan
2007	Meet Bill	Jim Whittman
2008	The Rocker	David Marshall
2008	Bang Blow & Stroke	David Marshall	Short film
2008	Semi-Pro	Nacho Fan	Cameo
2008	What Happens in Vegas	Mason
2010	The Bounty Hunter	Stewart
2010	Going the Distance	Box Saunders
2011	Hall Pass	Fred Searing
2011	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy	Eric Keppler
2011	Horrible Bosses	Kurt Buckman
2011	My Least Favorite Career	Kurt Buckman	Short film
2011	Surviving a Horrible Boss	Kurt Buckman	Short film
2012	The Campaign	Mitch Wilson
2013	Movie 43	Fake Batman
2013	Drinking Buddies	Gene Dentler
2013	Epic	Bomba (voice)
2013	We're the Millers	David Clark
2014	Horrible Bosses 2	Kurt Buckman
2015	Sleeping with Other People	Jake
2015	Tumbledown	Andrew McDonnell
2016	Race	Larry Snyder
2016	Mother's Day	Bradley
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Red (voice)	In post-production
2016	Masterminds	Mike McKinney
2016	The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	Henry	In post-production
2016	Colossal		In post-production
2017	Downsizing		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003–13	Saturday Night Live	Various	168 episodes; also writer
2007	Wainy Days	Handsome David	Episode: "Plugged"
2007–10	30 Rock	Floyd DeBarber	12 episodes
2008	Childrens Hospital	Dr. Robert "Bobby" Fiscus	2 episodes
2008–12	Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday	Various	6 episodes
2009–13	The Cleveland Show	Various	80 episodes
2010–11	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Peter "Schmitty" Schmidt	2 episodes
2011–14	Portlandia	Aliki / Kim	2 episodes
2011	2011 MTV Movie Awards	Himself (host)	TV special
2012–13	Eastbound & Down	Shane Gerald / Cole Gerald	6 episodes
2013	Robot Chicken	Badtz-Maru / Farmer Smurf (voice)	Episode: "Papercut to Aorta"
2015–present	The Last Man on Earth	Mike Miller	10 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Voice	Notes
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	Richard Bastion

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Year	Award / Film Festival	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2014	40th People's Choice Awards (with Jennifer Aniston)	People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Duo	We're the Millers	Nominated	[32]
2014 MTV Movie Awards	MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance	We're the Millers	Nominated	[33]
2014 Teen Choice Awards	Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit	We're the Millers	Nominated	[34]
2015	2015 MTV Movie Awards (with Charlie Day)	#WTF Moment	Horrible Bosses 2	Nominated	[35]
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards	Best Actor	Sleeping With Other People	Nominated	[36]

References

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External links

• Jason Sudeikis on Myspace
• Jason Sudeikis at the Internet Movie Database