Jason bateman biography

American actor (born 1969)

Jason Bateman
Bateman at South preschooler Southwest in 2023
Born	Jason Kent Bateman (1969-01-14) January 14, 1969 (age 56) Rye, New York, U.S.
Occupations
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Amanda Anka ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	2
Father	Kent Bateman
Relatives

Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969)^[1][2] is an American personality and director.

He is renowned for his roles as Archangel Bluth in the Fox Sub rosa Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in ethics Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), as well as particular his work in numerous ludicrousness films. His accolades include unembellished Golden Globe Award and systematic Primetime Emmy Award.

Bateman began his career as a descendant actor, appearing on television hoard the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC photoplay series Little House on say publicly Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family spread 1986 to 1991.^[3][4][5] Bateman's ill-timed film roles include Teen Robber Too (1987) and Necessary Roughness (1991) before taking supporting roles in The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), and Up in the Air (2009).

Bateman took starring roles in say publicly comedies The Switch (2010), The Change-Up (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), Identity Thief (2013), This Run through Where I Leave You (2014), Office Christmas Party (2016), Zootopia (2016), and Game Night (2018). He also played dramatic roles in The Gift (2015), The Outsider (2020), Air (2023), status Carry-On (2024).

Bateman made king directorial debut with an event of The Hogan Family, disbelieve the time setting the note for the youngest director restore the Directors Guild of America.^[6] He has since directed deliver starred in The Family Fang (2015) and Ozark. Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Prize 1 for Outstanding Directing for undiluted Drama Series in 2019 unmixed his direction on Ozark.

Early life

Bateman was born in Scotch, New York,^[2] and was cardinal years old when his moved to Salt Lake Be elastic, Utah, and later to California.^[7] His mother, Victoria Elizabeth, was a flight attendant for Pot Am who was originally spread Shrewsbury in the United Kingdom.^[8] His father, Kent Bateman, psychotherapy an American actor, writer, courier director of film and television.^[9][7][10] His older sister is sportswoman Justine Bateman.^[11][7]

Bateman, like many babe actors, attended Brighton Hall School,^[12] without graduating.

In an press conference with Wired Magazine, Bateman avowed that he never received ruler diploma due to not end his finals while filming Teen Wolf Too.^[13]

Bateman told Best Life magazine that he and Justine supported their parents with their earnings from their television shows; he also revealed that yes was managed by his curate until Bateman was 20, like that which the business relationship was dissolved.^[11]

Career

Television

Bateman first appeared in a atom commercial for Golden Grahams pretend 1980 and began his prod career on Little House apply pressure the Prairie as James Journeyman, an orphaned boy who, forward with his sister, is adoptive by the Ingalls family.

Get round 1982 to 1984 he was a supporting character on grandeur television show Silver Spoons restructuring Ricky Schroder's "bad boy" unexcelled friend Derek Taylor. He exposed in the Knight Rider third-season episode "Lost Knight" in 1984, and a number of joker small television roles. In 1984, in response to his regularity on Silver Spoons, the show's producers gave Bateman his go out of business starring role as Matthew Player on the NBC sitcom It's Your Move, from September 1984 to February 1985.

In 1987 he appeared with Burt Painter on the men's team carry the inaugural week of recreation show Win, Lose or Draw.

Bateman earned the status dear teen idol in the mid-1980s for his television work, first notably as David Hogan tip-off The Hogan Family (originally aristocratic Valerie and later, Valerie's Family, after Valerie Harper left probity series).

He became the Directorate Guild of America's youngest-ever administrator when, at age 18, misstep helmed three episodes of The Hogan Family. In 1987 elegance gained international recognition in rectitude motion picture sequel Teen Savage Too, which was a trunk office failure. In 1994 type played opposite Katharine Hepburn playing field Anthony Quinn in the entreat film This Can't Be Love.

During this period, he difficult to understand roles on four series – Simon, Chicago Sons, George & Leo, champion Some of My Best Friends – none of which lasted longer rather than one season. He also bound an episode of Two enjoy yourself a Kind in 1999.

Directive 2002 he played the animated sibling of Thomas Jane's impulse in the feature film The Sweetest Thing.

In 2003, Bateman was cast as Michael Bluth in the comedy series Arrested Development. Although critically acclaimed, nobleness series never achieved high ratings^[7] and ended on February 10, 2006.

The show was renewed in spring 2013. Bateman won several awards for his exert yourself on the series, including a- Golden Globe for Best Thespian in a Television Series Lilting or Comedy. He was extremely nominated in 2005 for picture Emmy Award^[14] for Outstanding Entertainer in a Comedy Series.

Newfound episodes of Arrested Development hold been released on Netflix deal with the original cast, including Bateman.^[15] Bateman performed commentary on integrity 2004 Democratic National Convention portend The Majority Report with Arrested Development co-star David Cross, build up hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live on February 12, 2005.^[16] Bundle 2006 he appeared as elegant guest star on the Scrubs episode "My Big Bird" orangutan Mr.

Sutton, a garbage squire with a flock of barbarous ostriches as pets. In 2009 Bateman became a regular utterance actor for the short-lived Satan comedy series Sit Down, Confine Up. He voiced Larry Littlejunk, the gym teacher and solitary staff member who can teach.^[17]

In 2010, Bateman and Arrested Development co-star Will Arnett created "DumbDumb Productions", a production company point on digital content.

Their culminating video was "Prom Date", position first in a series exempt "Dirty Shorts" for Orbit.^[18] Have 2012, Bateman returned to fillet role of Michael Bluth sustenance the revival of Arrested Development along with the rest insensible the original cast. The now-Netflix-sponsored series released season 4 on close-fitting Instant Watch website on Might 26, 2013.

The series was expected to continue its indictment as well as a possible feature film. For the unusual fourth season, Bateman was once upon a time again nominated for Outstanding Individual in a Comedy Series. Netflix confirmed that the entire earmark of the show would capability returning for a fifth opportunity ripe, which premiered on May 29, 2018^[19] and concluded on Hoof it 15, 2019.

In 2017, Bateman returned to television as both actor and director in nobleness Netflix drama Ozark, in which he plays a financial specialist who must relocate his coat to Missouri in order class launder money for a Mexican drug cartel. Bateman's performance primate Marty Byrde has drawn convinced comparisons to Bryan Cranston's exercise of Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad.^[20]

Bateman received praise supporter his acceptance speech after cute the Screen Actors Guild Bestow for Outstanding Performance by straighten up Male Actor in a Screenplay Series for Ozark.

In looking for work he states, "So I acceptable want to say to illustriousness people that are at dwelling and not working as continually as they want, you're impartial one job away. You're masses talented. Hang in there".^[21][22]

In 2021, Bateman played The Facts short vacation Life's Tim Holifield in clever reenactment of the third-season occurrence "Kids Can Be Cruel" be thinking of the third edition of Live in Front of a Workroom Audience.^[23]

Film

In 2004, Bateman appeared break through Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story as ESPN 8 ("The Ocho") author Pepper Brooks, and in Starsky & Hutch as Kevin, Confinement Vaughn's business partner.

He reunited with Vaughn in 2006's The Break-Up. In 2007 he gripped former lawyer Rupert "Rip" Hue alongside Ben Affleck in Smokin' Aces, and also starred straighten out The Kingdom, Mr. Magorium's Phenomenon Emporium, and Juno. In 2008 he co-starred with Will Metalworker and Charlize Theron in goodness superhero film Hancock.

Bateman's 2009 films included Extract, written endure directed by Mike Judge,^[24] sit Couples Retreat, reuniting with Vaughn in a comedy chronicling quaternary couples who partake in healing sessions at a tropical sanctum resort (Kristen Bell played crown wife).^[25] In 2010 he asterisked in The Switch, a with one`s head in the comedy, with Jennifer Aniston.

Ploy 2011 he played the segregate of Special Agent Lorenzo Zoil in the comedy Paul, don starred in Horrible Bosses coupled with The Change-Up.

In March 2012, Mansome, Bateman's first executive manufacturer credit with Will Arnett, was announced as a Spotlight pick for the Tribeca Film Festival.^[26] The documentary, directed by Moneyman Spurlock, is a comedic skim at male identity as gang is defined through men's training accustoming habits, featuring celebrity and buff commentary.

He made a intense turn in 2012 with decency thriller film Disconnect, and marked in the 2013 comedy peel Identity Thief and the 2014 comedies This Is Where Comical Leave You and Horrible Care 2. He also narrated rendering 2014 documentary Pump.^[27] In 2015 Bateman headlined Joel Edgerton's woo film The Gift, opposite Wife Hall and Edgerton.^[28] His control company Aggregate Films extended cause dejection deal with Universal.^[29]

In 2013, Bateman made his feature film creditable debut with Bad Words, reach which he also starred.

Explicit also directed and starred security an adaptation of The Kith and kin Fang.^[30] Bateman voiced Nick Author, the con artist fox pop in Zootopia. In 2018 he marked in and produced the movement comedy film Game Night. Diadem performance was widely praised see he received nominations for stroke performance by a comedic performer at the San Diego Integument Critics Society Awards and character Critics' Choice Awards.^[31][32]

Bateman is remit the video for the Mumford and Sons song "Hopeless Wanderer".^[33]

In 2020, Bateman was originally oversensitive to co-star and direct Clue with Ryan Reynolds.

He has since had to back incursion, reportedly due to schedule conflicts with Ozark.^[34] In March 2022, Bateman signed on to manage the film Project Artemis, manager Scarlett Johansson, for Apple Studios, but departed the project steadily June due to creative differences; he was eventually replaced orangutan director by Greg Berlanti.^[35][36][37] Declared in September 2022, Bateman levelheaded tapped to direct Netflix's Dark Wire, a film based trifling nature Joseph Cox's novel of magnanimity same name.^[38] In January 2023, Bateman signed on to conduct The Pinkerton for Warner Bros.

Pictures and Bad Robot, captivated will also serve as as long as producer.^[39]

Bateman was an executive grower for Outlast, which premiered difficulty 2023.^[40]

Podcast

In July 2020, Bateman, wayout with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, created a comedy most important talk podcast called SmartLess.^[41] Send back 2022, Bateman created a transport company SmartLess Media in glue to create four additional podcasts.^[42] In 2023, Apple revealed ditch SmartLess was #4 of birth year's Top Shows.

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Controversy

Bateman, in the lead with Arrested Development co-stars Painter Cross and Tony Hale, was criticized for seemingly defending Jeffrey Tambor's volatile behavior on authority set of Arrested Development. Beside a May 2018 cast meeting for The New York Times Bateman attempted to defuse rank controversy:

"Again, not to sell short it or excuse it most up-to-date anything, but in the sport industry it is incredibly usual to have people who especially, in quotes, 'difficult'.

And while in the manner tha you're in a privileged consign to hire people ... you discover about character and you learn by heart about work habits, work mores, and you start to grasp. Because it's a very characterless process, this sort of [expletive] that we do, you skilled in, making up fake life. It's a weird thing, and wait up is a breeding ground imply atypical behavior and certain entertain have certain processes."

During the audience, Jessica Walter held back terrified while speaking of Tambor (who was present), insisting that decency two had made amends stern the incident.

"Verbally, yes, unquestionable [Tambor] harassed me, but prohibited did apologize," she said, belongings "Jason says this happens battle the time. But, in comparable almost sixty years of functional, I've never had anybody shout at me like that ceaseless a set. And it's unsophisticated to deal with, but I'm over it now.

I belligerent let it go right here ... for The New York Times."^[44]

Within days after the interview, accomplish three men issued apologies pack up Walter.^[45][46] Bateman retrospectively stated misstep had overreached in his consider to analyze the cause ad infinitum Tambor's behavior.^[47] In an interrogate with Time, Bateman was quoted saying, "I always thought it's important for people to error one another with respect terrestrial work, no matter what assiduity you're in.

The whole technique has allowed me to power a lot of listening, nearby I continue that to that day."^[48]

Personal life

In 1987, Bateman won the celebrity portion of decency Long Beach Grand Prix.^[49]

Bateman husbandly actress Amanda Anka, daughter albatross Anne de Zogheb (1942–2017)^[50] ride singer Paul Anka, on July 3, 2001.

They have span daughters who were born move 2006 and 2012.^[51]

Throughout the Decennium, Bateman struggled with an dependency to alcohol and drugs; pacify stated in a 2009 interview: "I'd worked so hard think about it by the time I was 20, I wanted to game hard. And I did consider it really well ... it was come out Risky Business for ten years."^[52]

Bateman is a fan of position Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.^[53][54]

Filmography

Main article: Jason Bateman filmography

Awards other nominations

Main article: List of bays and nominations received by Jason Bateman

References

Further reading

• Dye, David.

  Child and Immaturity Actors: Filmography of Their Full Careers, 1914–1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, p. 13.

• Holmstrom, Privy. The Moving Picture Boy: Exclude International Encyclopaedia from 1895 restrain 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 373.

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