57 Facts About Jon Favreau

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Jonathan Kolia Favreau is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Jon Favreau has appeared in films such as Four Christmases, Couples Retreat, I Love You, Man, People Like Us, The Wolf of Wall Street, Chef, and several films created by Marvel Studios.

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Jon Favreau directed, produced, and appeared as Happy Hogan in the films Iron Man and Iron Man 2.

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Jon Favreau served as an executive producer for or appeared as the character in the films The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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Jon Favreau is the creator of the Star Wars Disney+ original series The Mandalorian as well as one of its executive producers and directors.

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Jon Favreau serves as a writer and executive producer for its spin-off series The Book of Boba Fett.

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Jon Favreau produces films under his production company banner, Fairview Entertainment, and presents the television cooking series The Chef Show.

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Jonathan Kolia Favreau was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, on October 19,1966, the only child of Madeleine, an elementary school teacher who died of leukemia in 1979, and Charles Favreau, a special education teacher.

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Jon Favreau's mother was Jewish, and his father is a Catholic of Italian and French-Canadian ancestry.

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Jon Favreau graduated from The Bronx High School of Science, a school for gifted students, in 1984 and attended Queens College from 1984 to 1987, before dropping out.

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Jon Favreau briefly worked for Bear Stearns on Wall Street before returning to Queens College for a semester in early 1988.

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Jon Favreau dropped out of college for good, and moved to Chicago in the summer of 1988 to pursue a career in comedy.

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Jon Favreau performed at several Chicago improvisational theaters, including the ImprovOlympic and the Improv Institute.

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Jon Favreau then moved to Los Angeles, where he made his breakthrough in 1996 as an actor-screenwriter with the film Swingers, which was Vaughn's breakthrough role as the character Trent Walker, a foil to Jon Favreau's heartbroken Mike Peters.

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Jon Favreau made appearances in the sketch-comedy series, Tracey Takes On.

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Jon Favreau landed the role of Gus Partenza in Deep Impact, and that same year rejoined Piven in Very Bad Things.

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Jon Favreau appeared in 2000's The Replacements as maniacal linebacker Daniel Bateman, and that same year he played himself in The Sopranos episode "D-Girl", as a Hollywood director who feigns interest in developing mob associate Christopher Moltisanti's screenplay in order to collect material for his own screenplay.

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Jon Favreau starred in a TV series called Dinner for Five, which aired on the cable TV channel IFC from 2001 to 2005.

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Jon Favreau was a guest-director for an episode of the college dramedy Undeclared in 2001, and Favreau got some screen time as lawyer Foggy Nelson in the 2003 movie Daredevil.

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Jon Favreau starred in The Big Empty, directed by Steve Anderson.

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Jon Favreau's character was John Person, an out of work actor given a strange mission to deliver a blue suitcase to a man named Cowboy in the desert.

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Jon Favreau is credited as a screenwriter for the 2002 film The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest.

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Also in 2003, Jon Favreau had a small part in Something's Gotta Give ; Jon Favreau played Leo, Harry Sanborn's personal assistant, who visited Harry in the hospital.

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In 2005, Jon Favreau directed the film adaptation of the children's book Zathura.

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Jon Favreau continued to make regular appearances in film and television.

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Jon Favreau reunited with friend Vaughn in the romantic comedy The Break-Up and appeared in My Name Is Earl as a reprehensible fast food manager.

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Jon Favreau made a guest appearance in Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show.

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Also in 2005, Jon Favreau appeared as a guest judge and executive representative of Sony Corporation in week five of NBC primetime reality TV business show, The Apprentice.

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Jon Favreau was called upon to judge the efforts of the show's two teams of contestants, who were assigned the task of designing and building a float to publicize his 2005 Sony Pictures movie, Zathura: A Space Adventure.

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Iron Man was the first Marvel-produced movie under their alliance with Paramount, and Jon Favreau served as the director and an executive producer.

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Jon Favreau wrote two issues of a planned mini-series for Marvel Knights titled Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas, that debuted in September 2008 before being canceled in November 2008.

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Jon Favreau directed and executive produced the film's sequel, Iron Man 2.

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Jon Favreau said in December 2010 that he would not direct Iron Man 3 but remain an executive producer.

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Jon Favreau was the third director attached to John Carter, the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' swashbuckling space hero.

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Jon Favreau co-starred in 2009's Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort, which he wrote.

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In 2012, Jon Favreau directed the pilot for the NBC show Revolution, and served as one of the show's executive producers, alongside JJ Abrams.

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In 2013, Jon Favreau directed an episode of another NBC hit The Office.

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Jon Favreau directed the Destiny trailer "The Law of the Jungle".

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In 2014, Jon Favreau wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in Chef.

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Jon Favreau played a chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic, quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant to operate a food truck with his young son.

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Jon Favreau wrote the script after directing several big-budget films, wanting to go "back to basics" and to create a film about cooking.

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In 2016, Jon Favreau directed and produced the live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, for Walt Disney Pictures, which was released on April 15,2016, to critical and commercial acclaim.

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Jon Favreau returned as Happy Hogan in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming, and co-executive produced Avengers: Infinity War.

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Jon Favreau filmed a scene for Avengers: Infinity War, but was cut, ending up on the Blu-Ray release.

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In 2017, Jon Favreau directed the pilot episode of CBS' Young Sheldon.

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Jon Favreau lent his voice to the character of Paz Vizsla, who was portrayed by Tait Fletcher.

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In 2019, Jon Favreau appeared in the sequel to Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home.

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In December 2021, Jon Favreau reprised his role as Happy Hogan in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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In May 2022, Jon Favreau produced the documentary series Prehistoric Planet alongside the BBC Studios Natural History Unit for Apple TV+.

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Jon Favreau has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

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In July 2012, Jon Favreau reported officially that he was working on the film.

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In November 2012, it was said that Jon Favreau was being considered to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens, along with David Fincher, Brad Bird, Matthew Vaughn and Ben Affleck, but JJ Abrams was selected to direct the film.

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In June 2015, Jon Favreau stated that although he would not be working on the Star Wars anthology films, he could work on future Star Wars movies at some point.

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Jon Favreau later worked with the franchise on the live action series The Mandalorian.

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Jon Favreau married Joya Tillem, a physician, on November 24,2000.

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In May 2019, it was announced that Jon Favreau will be named a Disney Legend at the 2019 D23 Expo for his outstanding contributions to The Walt Disney Company.

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On Monday, February 13,2023, at 11:00 AM PT Jon Favreau, received the 2,746th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.