55 Facts About Michael Cera

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Michael Cera is known for his awkward, offbeat characters in coming of age comedy films and for portraying George Michael Bluth in the sitcom Arrested Development.

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Michael Cera has had numerous roles in United States television and film productions, including character and for his film roles as Evan in Superbad, Paulie Bleeker in Juno, Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs the World, and a fictional version of himself in This Is the End.

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Michael Cera is known for his Broadway performances in the Kenneth Lonergan plays This Is Our Youth in 2014, Lobby Hero in 2018, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and The Waverly Gallery in 2019.

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Michael Cera has performed as the touring bassist for indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly.

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Michael Cera is the son of Linda and Luigi Cera, a technician.

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Michael Cera's father is Sicilian, and his mother has Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and English ancestry.

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Michael Cera has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly.

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Michael Cera became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three.

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Michael Cera enrolled in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation classes.

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Michael Cera's first role was an unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial.

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In 1999, Michael Cera was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian children's show I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, which ran for two seasons.

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The next year Michael Cera made his theatrical film debut in the science fiction film Frequency as the son of Noah Emmerich's character.

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Michael Cera had his first leading role in the latter film, which was presented in IMAX theaters.

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Michael Cera appeared in several television films in 2001, including My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger.

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Michael Cera began voicing Josh Spitz in the animated series Braceface, which he continued until 2004.

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In 2002, Michael Cera played the young Chuck Barris in the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

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Michael Cera had a role in the critically panned Fox pilot The Grubbs in 2002, which was never aired.

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In 2006, Michael Cera created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, a video resume created by Aleksey Vayner.

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In May 2007, Michael Cera appeared in a staged comedy video that shows him being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up, after belittling and arguing with its director Judd Apatow, in a scene that mocks the David O Russell blow up on the set of I Heart Huckabees.

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Michael Cera starred in the Apatow-produced teen comedy Superbad alongside Jonah Hill.

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In November 2007, Michael Cera hosted a live, staged version of Saturday Night Live; it was not broadcast due to the ongoing 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike.

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For Superbad and Juno, Michael Cera won Breakthrough Artist in the Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007, and was included in Entertainment Weekly's "30 Under 30" list in February 2008.

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Michael Cera held a recurring role on the comedy series Childrens Hospital from 2008 to 2016 as Sal Viscuso, a hospital staffer who is known only by his voice through an intercom.

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Michael Cera played a fictionalized version of himself in the independent romantic comedy Paper Heart.

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That year Michael Cera starred opposite Jack Black in the comedy Year One, set during the Stone Age.

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The film, directed by Harold Ramis, was poorly received, although Time magazine critic Mary Pols said that Michael Cera's performance saved the film from being a "catastrophe".

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Michael Cera played a shy teenager named Nick Twisp who creates a destructive alter ego, Francois Dillinger, after becoming smitten with a girl, played by Portia Doubleday.

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Michael Cera's first published short story, "Pinecone", appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly thirtieth issue in 2009.

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Michael Cera was cast as Scott Pilgrim in the film adaptation of the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

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Michael Cera made a guest appearance in "The Daughter Also Rises", a 2012 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, as the voice of Nick, a love interest to Lisa Simpson.

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Michael Cera made his theater debut in a production of Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth in a two-week run during March 2012 at the Sydney Opera House.

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The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley praised Michael Cera for achieving "something remarkable": "the sense of an amorphous being assuming and losing shape in the course of roughly 12 hours".

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Also in 2012, Michael Cera played a supporting role in the drama The End of Love and appeared in the short film The Immigrant.

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Michael Cera worked in the writers' room and served as a consulting producer during its production.

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Michael Cera spent "five hours a day learning Spanish" for Magic Magic.

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Michael Cera was featured most prominently in Crystal Fairy, in which he starred as a self-absorbed man travelling Chile with a woman named "Crystal Fairy" while bearing a cactus.

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Michael Cera played an exaggerated version of himself in the apocalyptic comedy film This Is the End, which was released in summer of 2013 and featured his Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen.

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Michael Cera had previously played Alexander Hamilton in a comedic retelling of Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr on the show's first episode as a web series in 2008 before it was adapted into a television show.

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Michael Cera appeared with his Arrested Development co-star David Cross' 2014 film Hits, playing a marijuana dealer.

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Michael Cera then voiced a hot dog trying to escape his fate in a supermarket in the animated comedy Sausage Party.

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Michael Cera had five film releases in 2017, the first of which was the animated superhero comedy The Lego Batman Movie, in which he voiced the Batman's sidekick Robin.

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Michael Cera played a supporting role as a sleazy car salesman in the comedy How to Be a Latin Lover and co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full-length feature, the comedy-drama Lemon.

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Michael Cera played an actor described as having a "wedge of hair that makes him look like Frederic Chopin crossed with Eraserhead", by Variety critic Owen Gleiberman.

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Michael Cera starred opposite Abbi Jacobson in the drama Person to Person, focusing on the struggles of different people over the course of one day in New York City.

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Michael Cera returned to the stage in March 2018, starring in a second Kenneth Lonergan production, Lobby Hero, at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway.

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Michael Cera appeared onstage again in October 2018, starring in a third Kenneth Lonergan production, a revival of The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway.

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Michael Cera co-starred in the 2018 film drama Gloria Bell, with Julianne Moore as the title character.

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Michael Cera's upcoming projects include the animated comedy Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank about a dog who wishes to become a samurai.

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In 2021, Michael Cera lent his voice to the adult animated film Cryptozoo.

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In 2010, Michael Cera contributed mandolin and backing vocals to the Weezer song "Hang On" from their album Hurley.

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Michael Cera has established himself as the touring bass player in Mister Heavenly, an indie rock band originating in the American northwest, and is a member of the band The Long Goodbye, along with Clark Duke.

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Michael Cera played bass and sang back up during songs in both Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

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Michael Cera released his full-length debut album True That on August 8,2014, through his official Bandcamp page.

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The song "Best I Can" from the film Dina, written and performed by Michael Cera and featuring Sharon Van Etten, was nominated for 'Best Song in a Documentary' at the 2017 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.

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In March 2022, Amy Schumer accidentally revealed that Michael Cera was a father.