42 Facts About Jason Bateman

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Jason Kent Bateman was born on January 14,1969 and is an American actor, director, and producer.

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Jason Bateman has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Jason Bateman began his career as a child actor, appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991.

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Jason Bateman has starred in the films Teen Wolf Too, Necessary Roughness, Dodgeball, Juno, Hancock, Up in the Air, Extract, The Switch, The Change-Up, Paul, Horrible Bosses and its sequel, Identity Thief, This is Where I Leave You, The Gift, Office Christmas Party, Zootopia, and Game Night.

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Jason Bateman has since directed and starred in The Family Fang and the Netflix crime drama series Ozark.

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Jason Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 for his direction of Ozark and has won three Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance.

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Jason Bateman was born in Rye, New York, and was four years old when his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and later to California.

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Jason Bateman's mother, Victoria Elizabeth, was a flight attendant for Pan Am who was originally from Shrewsbury in the United Kingdom.

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Jason Bateman's father, Kent Bateman, is an American actor, writer, and director of film and television.

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Jason Bateman told Best Life magazine that he and Justine supported their parents with their earnings from their television shows; he revealed that he was managed by his father until Jason Bateman was 20 when the business relationship was dissolved.

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Jason Bateman first appeared in a cereal commercial for Golden Grahams in 1980 and began his television career on Little House on the Prairie as James Cooper, an orphaned boy who, along with his sister, is adopted by the Ingalls family.

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Jason Bateman appeared in the Knight Rider third-season episode "Lost Knight" in 1984, and a number of other small television roles.

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Jason Bateman earned the status of teen idol in the mid-1980s for his television work, most notably as David Hogan on The Hogan Family.

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Jason Bateman became the Directors Guild of America's youngest-ever director when, at age 18, he helmed three episodes of The Hogan Family.

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Jason Bateman directed an episode of Two of a Kind in 1999.

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In 2003, Jason Bateman was cast as Michael Bluth in the comedy series Arrested Development.

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Jason Bateman won several awards for his work on the series, including a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy.

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Jason Bateman was nominated in 2005 for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.

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Jason Bateman performed commentary on the 2004 Democratic National Convention for The Majority Report with Arrested Development co-star David Cross, and hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live on February 12,2005.

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In 2009 Jason Bateman became a regular voice actor for the short-lived Fox comedy series Sit Down, Shut Up.

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Jason Bateman voiced Larry Littlejunk, the gym teacher and only staff member who can teach.

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

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In 2012, Jason Bateman returned to his role of Michael Bluth for the revival of Arrested Development along with the rest of the original cast.

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In 2017, Jason Bateman returned to television as both actor and director in the Netflix drama Ozark, in which he plays a financial advisor who must relocate his family to Missouri in order to launder money for a Mexican drug cartel.

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Jason Bateman received praise for his acceptance speech after winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for Ozark.

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In 2021, Jason Bateman played The Facts of Life's Tim Holifield in a reenactment of the third-season episode "Kids Can Be Cruel" for the third edition of Live in Front of a Studio Audience.

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Jason Bateman made a dramatic turn in 2012 with the thriller film Disconnect, and starred in the 2013 comedy film Identity Thief and the 2014 comedies This Is Where I Leave You and Horrible Bosses 2.

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In 2015 Jason Bateman headlined Joel Edgerton's thriller film The Gift, opposite Rebecca Hall and Edgerton.

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In 2013, Jason Bateman made his feature film directorial debut with Bad Words, in which he starred.

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Jason Bateman directed and starred in an adaptation of The Family Fang.

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Jason Bateman voiced Nick Wilde, the con artist fox in Zootopia.

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Jason Bateman's performance was widely praised and he received nominations for best performance by a comedic actor at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards and the Critics' Choice Awards.

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Jason Bateman is in the video for the Mumford and Sons song "Hopeless Wanderer".

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

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Jason Bateman has since had to back out, reportedly due to schedule conflicts Ozark.

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In March 2022, Jason Bateman signed on to direct the film Project Artemis, starring Scarlett Johansson, for Apple Studios, but departed the project in June due to creative differences; he was eventually replaced as director by Greg Berlanti.

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In January 2023, Jason Bateman signed on to direct The Pinkerton for Warner Bros.

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In 2022, Jason Bateman created a media company SmartLess Media in order to create four additional podcasts.

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Jason Bateman retrospectively stated he had overreached in his attempt to analyze the cause of Tambor's behavior.

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In 1987, Jason Bateman won the celebrity portion of the Long Beach Grand Prix.

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Jason Bateman married actress Amanda Anka, daughter of singer Paul Anka, on July 3,2001.

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Jason Bateman is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.