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Paul Rudd

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Biography

Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American actor. Rudd studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1991. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in July 2015 and was included on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2019. In 2021, he was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive.". Rudd appeared in the films Clueless (1995), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), and This Is 40 (2012). Notably, Rudd has played the superhero Scott Lang/Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Ant-Man (2015) and most recently in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) and Gary Grooberson in the Ghostbusters films Afterlife (2021) and Frozen Empire (2024). Rudd has also appeared in numerous television shows, including the sitcom Friends as Mike Hannigan, guest roles on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Reno 911!, and Parks and Recreation, and as guest host of Saturday Night Live multiple times. He had a dual role in the comedy series Living with Yourself, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series—Musical or Comedy. He starred in the miniseries The Shrink Next Door (2021) and had another dual role in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building (2023–2024) as Ben Glenroy and Glen Stubbins, the former for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Rudd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Overview

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Saturday Night Live

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Graham Norton Show

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Parks and Recreation

The Simpsons

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Daily Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Bob's Burgers

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

Strangers with Candy

The Jonathan Ross Show

Welcome to Wrexham

Only Murders in the Building

Veronica Mars

Finding Your Roots

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Honest Trailers

Marvel Studios Legends

SNL Digital Shorts

Late Show with David Letterman

Deadline

Marvel Studios Assembled

What If...?

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Impractical Jokers

Friends

Travel Man: 48 Hours in...

Reno 911!

The Greatest Event in Television History

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Little Britain USA

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Friends: The Reunion

The Bob's Burgers Movie

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

The Little Prince

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Captain America: Civil War

Romeo + Juliet

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Avengers: Endgame

Sausage Party

The Fire Next Time

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme

The Infinity Saga

Hard Knocks

Avengers: Secret Wars

Admission

Saturday Morning All Star Hits!

Monsters vs Aliens

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The Cider House Rules

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Clueless

Runaway Daughters

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

WHIH Newsfront

Avengers: Doomsday

Knocked Up

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Secrets of the Octopus

Mute

Anaconda

The Shrink Next Door

The Fundamentals of Caring

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

The Catcher Was a Spy

Production Credits

Party Down