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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
Saturday Night Live
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Graham Norton Show
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
The Simpsons
Parks and Recreation
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Entertainment Tonight
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
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
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
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Friends: The Reunion
The Bob's Burgers Movie
Reno 911!: Miami
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
What If...?
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
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Captain America: Civil War
Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Sausage Party
Avengers: Endgame
The Infinity Saga
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
The Fire Next Time
Monsters vs Aliens
Hard Knocks
Admission
Avengers: Secret Wars
Deadline
Avengers: Doomsday
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Runaway Daughters
WHIH Newsfront
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Clueless
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Little Britain USA
The Cider House Rules
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Knocked Up
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
Delocated
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Role Models
Secrets of the Octopus
Mute
Wanderlust
How Do You Know
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
This Is 40
They Came Together
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Anaconda
I Love You, Man
Dinner for Schmucks
Our Idiot Brother
The Fundamentals of Caring
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The Shrink Next Door
Death of a Unicorn
The Catcher Was a Spy
Tiny World
Living with Yourself
Production Credits
Role Models
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Party Down
Wanderlust
Tiny World
Living with Yourself
The Shrink Next Door
Ant-Man
Death of a Unicorn
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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