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Paul Rudd
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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.
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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.
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
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
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
SNL Digital Shorts
Late Show with David Letterman
Marvel Studios Legends
Marvel Studios Assembled
What If...?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Friends
Impractical Jokers
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Reno 911!
The Greatest Event in Television History
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Delocated
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
Reno 911!: Miami
On the Edge
Night at the Museum
200 Cigarettes
This Is the End
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Romeo + Juliet
The Little Prince
Captain America: Civil War
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Avengers: Endgame
Sausage Party
Avengers: Doomsday
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
The Fire Next Time
Hard Knocks
Monsters vs Aliens
Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
Deadline
Avengers: Secret Wars
Admission
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
WHIH Newsfront
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Runaway Daughters
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Clueless
Little Britain USA
The Cider House Rules
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Knocked Up
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anaconda
Role Models
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Secrets of the Octopus
Wanderlust
How Do You Know
Mute
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Living with Yourself
This Is 40
The Shrink Next Door
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man
Our Idiot Brother
Tiny World
They Came Together
I Love You, Man
The Fundamentals of Caring
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dinner for Schmucks
The Catcher Was a Spy
Production Credits
Role Models
Wanderlust
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Party Down
Living with Yourself
Tiny World
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The Shrink Next Door
Ant-Man
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