Jason Sudeikis

Infobox actor


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name = Jason Sudeikis
birthname = Daniel Jason Sudeikis
birthdate = birth date and age|1975|9|18
location = Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
spouse = Kay Cannon

Daniel Jason Sudeikis (born September 18, 1975) is an American actor and comedian.

Biography

Personal life

Sudeikis was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and is of partial Lithuanian descent. He moved to Overland Park, Kansas at a young age and attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School. He went to Rockhurst High School in 1991, and later transferred to Shawnee Mission West High School, where he was a point guard for the boys' basketball team, graduating in 1994. (He referenced this fact in an October 20, 2007 "SNL" sketch involving LeBron James.)

Sudeikis is married to actress and "30 Rock" writer Kay Cannon and is the nephew of actor and frequent 1990s-era "Saturday Night Live" guest star George Wendt - known for his role as "Norm" from "Cheers". He has two sisters, Lindsay and Kristin. Lindsay is a member of a Catholic Religious order as a nun, whose new name is Divino Amore. Divino currently lives in a convent in Toronto, Canada. Kristin is a budding actress and dancer in New York City.

Career

In 2003, Sudeikis was hired as a sketch writer for "Saturday Night Live" at the recommendation of Jeff Richmond, husband of then head writer Tina Fey, when he was performing at The Second City in Las Vegas and later, in May 2005, became a featured player on the show. He became famous for his impersonation of "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks, as well as one-half of the A-Hole duo with Kristen Wiig. He was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of the show's 32nd season on September 30, 2006.

Before getting hired by "Saturday Night Live", he performed at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City, where he co-founded a sketch comedy troupe called Der Monkenpickle. After moving to Chicago, Sudeikis studied at iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) where he was one of the founding members of the legendary long-form team JTS Brown, whose form is now part of the curriculum in Level 5 classes at iO. He was later cast in The Second City's National Touring Company and has performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. While with Second City, he became a founding member of Second City Las Vegas. He has also studied at ImprovOlympic and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, and frequently performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York.

Sudeikis had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock" in early 2007, appearing in a total of seven episodes. He played Floyd, a love interest of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon. He made another appearance as Floyd in a 2008 episode.

He also plays the role of extreme right-wing talk show host Richard Bastion on the fictional radio station WKTT, in Grand Theft Auto IV.

He was recently in the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher led comedy "What Happens in Vegas"

Jason also appears in the 2008 film The Rocker (film).

Saturday Night Live

Recurring characters

* Male A-Hole ("Two A-Holes...")
* Jim ("Carol")
* Gil, a news anchor who treats his field correspondent Michelle Dison's (Kristen Wiig) misfortunes as amusement
* One of the guys from the "Song Memories" sketches who is the first to tell strange stories about where he was when he first heard a song.
* Count Dracula (once in a one-off sketch on the Hugh Laurie/Beck episode about a group of villagers who get tricked by Frankenstein (Bill Hader) into capturing Dracula instead of him and again in an SNL Digital Short on the Ellen Page/Wilco episode about a girl (Page) who has a chain of nightmares, one of which is about a woman (Kristen Wiig) who wakes up next to Dracula).
*Ed Mahoney, a brash man who often makes a fool of himself in public.

Celebrity impressions

* Bill Frist
* Bill Oefelein
* Bobby Knight
* Bret Michaels
* Bruce Vilanch (as one of the "Dakota Fanning Show" writers)
* Dane Cook
* Doug Stanhope
* Dr. John
* Eli Manning
* George Allen
* George W. Bush
* Harry Connick Jr.
* John Krasinski (as Jim Halpert)
* Howard Dean
* Joe Biden
* Joe Buck
* John King
* Josh Peck (from the Nickelodeon sitcom "Drake and Josh")
* Kirk Krack
* Nick Carter
* Phil Simms
* Richie Sambora
* Roger Clemens
* Scott McClellan
* Simon Cowell
* Taylor Hicks
* Terry Moran
* Tom Tancredo
* Zack Snyder

External links

*imdb name|0837177
* [http://www.myspace.com/63644967 MySpace]
* [http://wearemoviegeeks.com/2008/08/wamg-interview-jason-sudeikis/ We Are Movie Geeks Interview]