Jay Baruchel
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| Jay Baruchel | |
| Birth name | Jonathan Adam Horrace McGee Saunders Baruchel |
| Born | April 9, 1982 (age 24) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Jonathan Adam Horrace McGee Saunders Baruchel (born April 9, 1982), better known as Jay Baruchel, is a Canadian actor.
Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario to his Jewish father and a Catholic mother [1] He got his start on local television series My Hometown in 1996, before co-hosting Popular Mechanics for Kids between 1997 and 1998, alongside fellow Canadian Elisha Cuthbert.
After appearing briefly in Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning Almost Famous, Jay won the role of Steven Karp on Judd Apatow's lauded yet short-lived television series Undeclared, where he starred alongside Seth Rogen, Carla Gallo, Charlie Hunnam and Monica Keena. He then supported James Van Der Beek in Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction.
In 2004, he played Danger Barch, a boxing hopeful, in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, which scooped an Oscar for Best Picture the following year. (Jay's name was among those thanked by Eastwood when accepting the award.) He then starred opposite Don Johnson on the WB's Just Legal in September and October 2005, and guest-starred on CBS's Numb3rs. He will next be seen in two films: I'm Reed Fish, alongside Alexis Bledel, and Fanboys, alongside Sam Huntington and Chris Marquette.
Baruchel currently resides in Montreal, Quebec.
