Jason Sudeikis

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Jason Sudeikis

December 2008
Born Daniel Jason Sudeikis
September 18, 1975 (1975-09-18) (age 33)
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Spouse(s) Kay Cannon

Jason Daniel Sudeikis (born September 18, 1975) (pronounced: soo-DAY-kiss) is an American actor and comedian.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Sudeikis was born in Fairfax, Virginia. He moved to Overland Park, Kansas with his family as a child. Jason considers Overland Park, Kansas to be his hometown.[1] He attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School, both of which are located in Overland Park, Kansas. 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. (He referenced this fact in an October 20, 2007 SNL sketch involving LeBron James.) Jason is proud of being from Kansas and often plays this fact up on SNL.[1] Jason is also a long time die-hard Kansas Jayhawks fan[1][2] and has worked KU themes as well as well known Lawrence, Kansas locations into several sketches on SNL.

Sudeikis is married to actress and 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon and is the nephew of actor and frequent 1990s-era Saturday Night Live guest star George Wendt - 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.

His next movie will be Bounty Hunter the film which is currently in production. He will be starring alongside Gerard Butler (who plays The Bounty Hunter) and Jennifer Aniston (who plays Casidy). He will be playing the role of Casidy's colleague who falls in love with her and mistakenly assumes she is his girlfriend.[3]

[edit] 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 skits where the two are paired). He was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of the show's 32nd season on September 30, 2006.

Before being hired by Saturday Night Live, he 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 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, a love interest of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon. He made another appearance as Floyd in a 2008 episode.

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-boyfriend.

In July 2008, Sudeikis co-starred in the web series The Line on Crackle.[4]

Sudeikis will have a recurring role on the Fox's The Cleveland Show this fall.

[edit] Saturday Night Live

[edit] Recurring characters

  • Male A-Hole ("Two A-Holes...")
  • 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.
  • Count Dracula (once in a one-off sketch on the Hugh Laurie/Beck episode about a group of villagers who get tricked by Frankenstein (Bill Hader) into capturing Dracula instead of him and again in an SNL Digital Short on the Ellen Page/Wilco episode about a girl (Page) who has a chain of nightmares, one of which is about a woman (Kristen Wiig) who wakes up next to Dracula).
  • Ed Mahoney, a brash man who often makes a fool of himself in public.

[edit] Celebrity impressions

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Niccum, Jon (2005-10-28). "‘Saturday Night’ fever". www2.ljworld.com. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/oct/28/saturday_night_fever/?arts. Retrieved on 2009-06-19. 
  2. ^ Stevens, Hamtpon (2008-08-19). "JASON SUDEIKIS CHECKS IN:"I'M A LEFTY FROM KANSAS!"". sports.espn.go.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3542400. Retrieved on 2009-06-19. 
  3. ^ "News: Jason Sudeikis joins the Bounty Hunter cast". www.gerardjamesbutler.co.uk. http://news.gerardjamesbutler.co.uk/2009/06/17/news-the-newly-formed-love-triangle-between-gerard-butler-jennifer-aniston--jason-sudeikis.aspx. 
  4. ^ "And the newest cast member of SNL is ...". TV Squad. 2008-08-21. http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/08/21/and-the-newest-cast-member-of-snl-is/. Retrieved on 2009-02-27. 

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