Jason Bateman
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 Jason Bateman, December 2007 |
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| Born | Jason Kent Bateman January 14, 1969 Rye, New York, USA |
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| Occupation | Actor | ||||||
| Years active | 1977 – present | ||||||
| Spouse(s) | Amanda Anka (2001 – present) |
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Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor. After starring in several 1980s sitcoms, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development. Since the show's end, he has also appeared in several Hollywood films, such as The Kingdom and Juno.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Bateman was born in Rye, New York, United States, the son of Victoria, a flight attendant of Maltese heritage, and Kent Bateman, a film and television writer/director and founder of a repertory stage in Hollywood.[1] His older sister is Family Ties star Justine Bateman. He is an alumnus of Pacific Hills School.
[edit] Career
Bateman began acting in 1981, playing James Cooper Ingalls in the television drama, Little House on the Prairie. He appeared on an episode of Knight Rider in 1984. He earned the status of teen idol in the mid-1980s in shows such as Silver Spoons, It's Your Move, and The Hogan Family, and became the Directors Guild of America's youngest-ever director when he directed three episodes of The Hogan Family at the age of 18. After the series ended its run, his career slowed down for nearly a decade. During this period, he had major roles on four series — Simon, Chicago Sons, George & Leo, and Some of My Best Friends — none of which lasted for longer than one season. In 2002, he landed the role as the frisky sibling of Thomas Jane's engaged character in the feature film The Sweetest Thing. He also appeared in the Scrubs season five episode "My Big Bird", and in 2003 his career made a major comeback with the role of Michael Bluth on the FOX television comedy Arrested Development.
More recently, he has appeared in Dodgeball as ESPN 8 ("The Ocho") commentator "Pepper Brooks", and in Starsky & Hutch as "Kevin", Vince Vaughn's business partner. Bateman reunited with Vaughn in 2006's The Break-Up, and also did commentary on the 2004 Democratic National Convention for The Majority Report with Arrested Development co-star David Cross. In 2006, he appeared as a guest star on the sitcom Scrubs as Mr. Sutton, a garbage man who doesn't thank JD after being treated pleasantly, and as former lawyer Rupert "Rip" Reed in Smokin' Aces. In 2007, he starred in The Kingdom, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Juno, where he again worked with his Kingdom co-star Jennifer Garner, and his Arrested Development co-star Michael Cera. In 2008, he will appear with Will Smith in the super-hero spoof Hancock.
Bateman has signed on to film a new comedy, Extract, due out in 2009. The movie will be written and directed by Mike Judge.[2]
Bateman was awarded the Golden Globe in 2005 for "Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy" for his work on Arrested Development. He hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live on February 12, 2005.
He ranked at #60 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars.
[edit] Personal life
Bateman has one older sister, actress Justine Bateman. Bateman told Best Life magazine that he and Justine supported their parents with the paychecks they earned on their television shows, and that his father was his manager until Jason fired him at the age of 20.[3]
Since 2001, Bateman has been married to actress Amanda Anka, daughter of singer and actor Paul Anka. Their first child, Francesca Nora Bateman, was born October 28, 2006.
In late 2005, he had surgery to remove a benign polyp from his throat.[4] The surgery and required recovery time halted production on Arrested Development, though enough episodes had been completed to get the show through November sweeps.
[edit] Filmography
- Teen Wolf Too (1987)
- Necessary Roughness (1991)
- Breaking the Rules (1992)
- Love Stinks (1999)
- One Way Out (2002)
- The Sweetest Thing (2002)
- Arrested Development (2003 - 2006) TV series
- The Jake Effect (2003; not aired until 2006)
- Starsky and Hutch (2004)
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
- The Break-Up (2006)
- Arthur and the Minimoys (2006)
- Smokin' Aces (2007)
- The Ex (2007)
- The Kingdom (2007)
- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
- Juno (2007)
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
- Hancock (2008)
- State of Play (2009)
- Extract (2009)
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| Preceded by Ricky Gervais for The Office |
Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for Arrested Development 2005 |
Succeeded by Steve Carell for The Office |
