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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 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. 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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Rudd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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
Veronica Mars
Finding Your Roots
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Honest Trailers
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Show with David Letterman
Marvel Studios Legends
Deadline
Marvel Studios Assembled
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Impractical Jokers
Friends
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Reno 911!
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Little Britain USA
The Greatest Event in Television History
Delocated
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Avengers: Doomsday
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
The Little Prince
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Captain America: Civil War
Romeo + Juliet
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Sausage Party
Avengers: Endgame
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
The Fire Next Time
Monsters vs Aliens
Hard Knocks
Avengers: Secret Wars
Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
Admission
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Clueless
Runaway Daughters
The Cider House Rules
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Knocked Up
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Wanderlust
Friendship
Mute
Role Models
Secrets of the Octopus
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
How Do You Know
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Our Idiot Brother
Death of a Unicorn
Living with Yourself
I Love You, Man
The Shrink Next Door
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Anaconda
This Is 40
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dinner for Schmucks
The Fundamentals of Caring
Ant-Man
Tiny World
They Came Together
The Catcher Was a Spy
Production Credits
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Party Down
Role Models
Death of a Unicorn
Tiny World
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The Shrink Next Door
Friendship
Living with Yourself
Wanderlust
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