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50 things about Paul Rudd, the actor, comedian, write and producer.
1. Paul Rudd is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer.
2. Paul Rudd has primarily appeared in comedies, and is known for his roles in the films Clueless (1995), 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), This Is 40 (2012), and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013).
3. In television, he appeared in the early 1990s on the NBC drama Sisters and some years later he appeared as Mike Hannigan on the NBC sitcom Friends.
4. Other guest television roles have included an appearance on the Tim and Eric show, a recurring role on Parks and Recreation as politician Bobby Newport, and hosting Saturday Night Live.
5. Paul Rudd has been cast as Scott Lang / Ant-Man in Marvel Studios' Ant-Man, to be released July 17, 2015 and will be reprising the character in Captain America: Civil War, set for release May 6, 2016.
6. In 2015, Rudd received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
7. Paul Rudd was born on April 6, 1969 in Passaic, New Jersey as Paul Stephen Rudd.
8. His father, Michael, was a historical tour guide who was formerly the vice president of Trans World Airlines and died from cancer.
9. Paul Rudd's his mother, Gloria, was a sales manager at the television station KCMO-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.
10. His parents were British, his father from Edgware and his mother from Surbiton.
11. Rudd's parents were both Jewish (descended from Jewish immigrants who moved from Russia and Poland to England).
12. The family's original surname, "Rudnitzky," was changed by his grandfather to "Rudd."
13. Paul Rudd had a bar mitzvah ceremony.
14. When he was ten, Rudd's family moved to Overland Park, Kansas, where he was raised.
15. Paul Rudd's family also spent three years living in Anaheim, California, because of his father's occupation.
16. Paul Rudd attended Broadmoor Junior High and Shawnee Mission West High School. Rudd went on to college at the University of Kansas, where he was a member of the Nu Chapter of Sigma Nu.
17. Paul Rudd spent three months studying Jacobean drama at the British American Drama Academy based in Oxford, U.K.
18. While attending acting school, Rudd worked as a Bar Mitzvah disc jockey.
19. In 2002, he was cast as Mike Hannigan on the sitcom Friends who dates and then marries Phoebe Buffay, played by Lisa Kudrow.
20. 2004 marked the start of his work with director/producer Judd Apatow, first on the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy as Brian Fantana with Steve Carell, David Koechner and Will Ferrell, produced by Apatow and again in 2005 in The 40-Year-Old Virgin with Steve Carell and Seth Rogen, directed by Apatow.
21. Paul Rudd subsequently worked with Apatow in 2007's Knocked Up, as frustrated husband Pete, married to Leslie Mann's character. In that film, he co-starred with Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, and Jay Baruchel.
22. Paul Rudd appeared as John Lennon in the comedy film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story in 2007 and as the drug-addled surf instructor in Nicholas Stoller's Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008 with Jason Segel and Jonah Hill, both of which Apatow produced.
23. In 2012, he starred and also co-produced with Apatow on the film Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston.
24. His next comedy which he also wrote, Role Models, he and co-star Seann William Scott portray energy-drink salesmen forced to perform community service in a child mentoring program.
25. Paul Rudd lent his voice to the DreamWorks computer-animated hit movie Monsters Vs. Aliens.
26. In 2010, he reunited with Steve Carell for the first time since The 40-Year-Old Virgin for the Jay Roach-directed comedy Dinner for Schmucks.
27. He starred in the 2011 comedy-drama film Our Idiot Brother with Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer. It would be the fifth film that Rudd starred in with Elizabeth Banks. He had previously appeared with her in Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Baxter (2005), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Role Models (2008).
28. In 2012, he signed to appear on four episodes of NBC's Parks and Recreation as Bobby Newport, a candidate for City Council and a rival of Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope. A role which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
29. In December 2013, Rudd entered early negotiations to star in the upcoming 2015 Marvel film Ant-Man as the lead character Scott Lang. Marvel officially confirmed Rudd's casting on December 19, 2013.
30. Rudd also co-wrote the screenplay with Adam McKay. In May 2015, Marvel Studios confirmed Rudd will reprise his role in Captain America: Civil War.
31. After Ant-Man, Rudd will next be seen in the comedy-drama film The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, alongside Selena Gomez.
32. He will lend his voice to the animated films Sausage Party, starring Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and The Little Prince, starring Jeff Bridges and Benicio Del Toro.
33. In 2014 he began providing voiceovers for Hyundai television commercials.
34. Paul Rudd has also voiced the audiobook recordings of John Hodgman's books The Areas of My Expertise (2005) and More Information Than You Require (2008).
35. As part of a running gag during his appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and Conan, Rudd has brought a clip from the film Mac and Me, where the wheelchair-bound Eric (Jade Calegory) flies off a cliff while Mac watches on, instead of showing clips from the actual film he is there to promote.
36. Paul Rudd has also appeared in Broadway plays.
37. Paul Rudd's first Broadway appearance was in The Last Night of Ballyhoo as Joe Farkas in 1997.
38. The next year he appeared in Twelfth Night with Kyra Sedgwick and Max Wright at the Lincoln Center Theatre.
39. And in 2006, he was in the Broadway production of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain with Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts at the Bernard Jacobs Theater.
40. Paul Rudd has a reputation for being one of the nices guys in Hollywood.
41. Paul Rudd is a silly man and that's compliment. He can make silly faces, goofy voices. That's might the the reason he has such a success in comedy.
42. In 2003, Rudd married Julie Yaeger.
43. The couple has two children, a son, Jack Sullivan and a daughter, Darby.
44. He is a fan of MLB's Kansas City Royals and of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, for whom he narrated the 2007 season of HBO's Hard Knocks.
45. Paul Rudd has one sister.
46. Paul Rudd and his wife have a good marriage. In an interivew for Elle.com Rudd said "I don't think I'm going to sell a lot of tabloids." "My wife and I have been together for 16 years. My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago."
47. Paul Rudd's wife is a former publicist.
48. He will also reprise his role as Andy from Wet Hot American Summer in the Netflix prequel Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, alongside an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler and Elizabeth Banks, all reprising their roles from the 2001 film.
49. Rudd often stars with other Apatow film regulars like Seth Rogen (four films), Steve Carell (four films), Jonah Hill (three films), Leslie Mann (three films), Kristen Wiig (three films), Jason Segel (three films), Elizabeth Banks (five films), and Joe Lo Truglio (seven films), as well as working with director David Wain (four films).
50. He was in the 1999 film The Cider House Rules that earned him and the cast a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Source: Wikipedia.org
