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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 was included on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2019 and was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2021. The accolades he has received include a Critics' Choice Television Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. 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). He has played the superhero Scott Lang / Ant-Man in five Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, from Ant-Man (2015) to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). He played Gary Grooberson in the Ghostbusters films Afterlife (2021) and Frozen Empire (2024). Rudd has also appeared on numerous television shows, including the sitcom Friends (2002–2004) as Mike Hannigan, and has been featured as a guest host of Saturday Night Live multiple times. He had a dual role in the comedy series Living with Yourself (2019), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy. He starred in the miniseries The Shrink Next Door (2021). He featured in the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building (2023–2024), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Overview

Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Graham Norton Show

The Kelly Clarkson 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

Entertainment Tonight

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

GMTV

Bob's Burgers

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

Strangers with Candy

The Jonathan Ross Show

Only Murders in the Building

Welcome to Wrexham

Finding Your Roots

Veronica Mars

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Honest Trailers

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Late Show with David Letterman

Marvel Studios Legends

Marvel Studios Assembled

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Friends

Impractical Jokers

Travel Man: 48 Hours in...

The Greatest Event in Television History

Reno 911!

Marvel Zombies

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Delocated

What If...?

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

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

This Is the End

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

The Little Prince

Romeo + Juliet

Captain America: Civil War

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Saturday Morning All Star Hits!

Sausage Party

Avengers: Endgame

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme

Avengers: Secret Wars

Monsters vs Aliens

Hard Knocks

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Runaway Daughters

Friendship

Little Britain USA

The Cider House Rules

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

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

Clueless

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Knocked Up

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

How Do You Know

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Secrets of the Octopus

Mute

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Role Models

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Wanderlust

Ant-Man

Dinner for Schmucks

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

The Fundamentals of Caring

The Shrink Next Door

This Is 40

Ant-Man and the Wasp

The Catcher Was a Spy

Our Idiot Brother

Living with Yourself

Production Credits