29 Facts About Jon Cryer

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Jonathan Niven Cryer was born on April 16,1965 and is an American actor, writer, director and producer.

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Jon Cryer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in 2011.

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Jon Cryer has appeared in the recurring role of the Earth-38 Lex Luthor in the CW series Supergirl, Arrow, and Batwoman.

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Jon Cryer's mother, Gretchen Kiger, is a playwright, songwriter, actress and singer.

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Jon Cryer's father, Donald David Cryer, is an actor and singer who originally studied to be a minister.

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Jon Cryer's paternal grandfather, the Rev Donald W Cryer, was a prominent Methodist minister.

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When Jon Cryer was twelve years old, he decided he wanted to become an actor.

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Jon Cryer was classmates with screenwriter and film director Boaz Yakin.

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Jon Cryer was later a standby and replacement for Broderick as Eugene Jerome in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1984.

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At age 19, Jon Cryer appeared in the 1984 romantic comedy film No Small Affair, in the lead role as Charles Cummings, after the original production with Matthew Broderick was shut down when director Martin Ritt suffered a heart attack.

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Jon Cryer went on to appear in small roles in films and television movies.

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Jon Cryer then starred in the 1987 film Hiding Out as a stockbroker on the run from a Mafia hit man.

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In 1990 Jon Cryer appeared as Sandy in an Off-Broadway adaptation of Carnal Knowledge.

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Jon Cryer's reading was videotaped by a British casting agent but the tape failed to arrive in the US before the network had made its final decision.

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In 1999, Jon Cryer appeared as Neal in Jeffrey Sweet's play Bluff at the Victory Gardens Theater.

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Jon Cryer's long run of unsuccessful TV projects finally ended in 2003.

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In 2008, Jon Cryer appeared with Laurence Fishburne and James Cromwell in the film Tortured, and in 2009 co-starred with James Spader in the film Shorts.

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In 2011, Jon Cryer played the role of David in a concert staging of Stephen Sondheim's musical Company with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center.

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Jon Cryer made a guest appearance on the sitcom series Husbands in its second season.

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Jon Cryer was initially cast to voice the lead character in DisneyToon Studios' animated film Planes, a spin-off of Pixar's Cars franchise, but later dropped out and was replaced by Dane Cook.

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In 2015, Jon Cryer released a book titled So That Happened, a breezy, often comic tale chronicling Jon Cryer's 30-year career on stage, film and television.

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Jon Cryer currently appears in the highly popular CBS drama series NCIS, where he currently plays Navy Dr Cyril Taft who treats NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

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Jon Cryer had expressed a desire to appear in NCIS since it premiered in 2003.

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Jon Cryer was then transported to America an indentured servant to work at the Saugus Iron Works at Lynn, Massachusetts.

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On November 16,2018, it was announced that Jon Cryer had been cast as Lex Luthor on The CW's Supergirl in a recurring role.

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Jon Cryer reprised the role in the Batwoman and The Flash episodes of the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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Jon Cryer married British actress Sarah Trigger in 1999, with whom he has a son, Charlie Austin.

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Jon Cryer has been full of shit, he has serious addiction.

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Jon Cryer's addiction is obviously serious, drugs, and, but, Trump is just addicted to feeling important.