37 Facts About Jay Baruchel

Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel is a Canadian actor and director.

Jay Baruchel is best known for his voice role as Hiccup Haddock in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, and for his lead roles in the comedies Fanboys, She's Out of My League, and This Is the End.

Jay Baruchel was the co-lead in the Disney action-fantasy film The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Films in which Jay Baruchel has had a starring role have grossed over $1.28 billion at the worldwide box office as of 2024.

Jay Baruchel has had supporting roles in comedy movies such as Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, Goon, and The Art of the Steal.

Jay Baruchel had a lead role as BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis in the film BlackBerry.

Jay Baruchel has had non-comedic lead roles in films such as Good Neighbours, The Kindness of Strangers, and Humane, and supporting roles in Million Dollar Baby, Cosmopolis, and RoboCop.

Jay Baruchel has directed the films Goon: Last of the Enforcers and Random Acts of Violence, which he both acted in.

Jay Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Robyne, a freelance writer, and Serge Jay Baruchel, an antiques dealer.

Jay Baruchel grew up in the Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, and has a younger sister.

Jay Baruchel is of one-quarter Jewish descent, with the rest of his ancestry being French and Irish-Catholic.

Jay Baruchel got his first acting job when he was just 12.

Jay Baruchel then appeared with James Van Der Beek in Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction.

In 2004, Jay Baruchel played boxing hopeful Danger Barch in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.

Jay Baruchel then starred in Nemesis Game and Fetching Cody, before appearing opposite Don Johnson on the WB's Just Legal in 2005, and guest-starring on the CBS drama Numb3rs in 2006.

Jay Baruchel appeared in the films Knocked Up, I'm Reed Fish, Just Buried, and the Ben Stiller-directed Tropic Thunder, alongside Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan, and Robert Downey Jr.

Jay Baruchel co-starred with Seth Rogen in the 2007 trailer for Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse, created by Rogen and Evan Goldberg as a strategy to garner interest and funding for a similar, larger-scale project.

Jay Baruchel made a brief appearance in Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian.

In 2010, Jay Baruchel starred in the films The Trotsky, DreamWorks' She's Out of My League, and the live-action Disney adaptation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Jay Baruchel voiced the starring role in the acclaimed animated feature, How to Train Your Dragon, a role he has subsequently continued throughout the franchise, including its television series.

Jay Baruchel developed the screenplay for Goon, with Evan Goldberg, playing Johnny Klutz, a character of his own creation.

In July 2014, it was announced that Jay Baruchel would be starring in the FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman which premiered in January 2015.

Jay Baruchel appeared in the 2015 music video for the song "Every Little Means Trust" by Idlewild.

Jay Baruchel was involved in writing the Chapterhouse comic book series Captain Canuck.

Jay Baruchel wrote, directed, and starred in the 2017 sports comedy film Goon: Last of the Enforcers, the sequel to the 2011 film Goon.

In 2021, Jay Baruchel hosted the original audio podcast documentary series for Audible.

Jay Baruchel was named host of LOL: Last One Laughing Canada, which premiered on February 18,2022 on Amazon Prime Video.

Jay Baruchel appears in the seventh episode of The Kids in the Hall revival.

In 2022, Baruchel hosted the Crave original series We're All Gonna Die, a six-episode docuseries about the end of the world that explored potential world-ending risks.

Jay Baruchel had a lead role as BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis in the biographical comedy-drama film BlackBerry, for which he won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film.

In November 2024, Jay Baruchel joined the cast of the romcom film Mile End Kicks.

Jay Baruchel is set to play Ken Carter in The Stunt Driver, a comedy film about the Canadian stunt driver's exploits.

Jay Baruchel was engaged to actress Alison Pill from 2011 to 2013.

Jay Baruchel alluded to their break-up in a Twitter post on February 16,2013.

In May 2018, Jay Baruchel announced his engagement to his girlfriend Rebecca-Jo Dunham.

Jay Baruchel has several tattoos among which, a Celtic cross on his upper right arm to honour his Irish heritage, and a red maple leaf on his left pectoral.

Jay Baruchel has been a supporter of Scottish football club Celtic FC since the early 2000s; in 2016, he co-produced a documentary detailing his journey towards falling in love with the club.