Jason Sudeikis

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Jason Sudeikis.

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

Jason was born Daniel Jason Sudeikis in Fairfax, Virginia and is of partial Lithuanian descent. He moved to Overland Park, Kansas at a young age, and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in 1994. He is married to Kay Cannon and is the nephew of actor George Wendt.

In 2003 he was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live at the recommendation of Jeff Richmond when he was performing at The Second City and later, in May 2005, started out as 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 Kristin 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, Sudeikis studied at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City. 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.

Trivia

He is a Virgo.
He is left-handed.
He is 6' 1.
He references Kansas in a lot of his own sketches.
He and his wife did their first UCB improv show on September 20, 2006 at "School Night" in NYC.
He has two younger sisters.
His dad is in sales and his mom is a travel agent.
He has said on Late Night with Conan O'Brien that he gets ideas for SNL in the shower. He calls them "Shower Epiphanies".
As of the November 18, 2006 episode of "Saturday Night Live" hosted by Ludacris, Sudeikis has taken Will Forte's place in impersonating George W. Bush in political sketches.