1. Patton Peter Oswalt was born on January 27,1969 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
34 Facts About Patton Oswalt
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Patton Oswalt's acting roles include Spence Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens and narrating the sitcom The Goldbergs as adult Adam F Goldberg.
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Patton Oswalt was in the web series Best of the Worst in 2019.
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Patton Oswalt has one younger brother, Matt Oswalt, a comedy writer best known for writing and starring in the YouTube web series Puddin'.
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Patton Oswalt is a 1987 graduate of Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Patton Oswalt's first starring film role was as the voice of Remy, the lead character in the 2007 Academy Award-winning Pixar film Ratatouille.
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Patton Oswalt has appeared in smaller roles in such films as Magnolia and 22 Jump Street.
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Patton Oswalt is a longtime reader of comics, in particular DC Comics, having discussed his love of the medium in his stand-up, and having written comics stories, He is a cinephile, having watched 4,000 films, including 720 films from 1995 to 1999 at the New Beverly Cinema.
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Patton Oswalt moderated a reunion panel of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast at San Diego Comic-Con in 2008.
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Patton Oswalt was set to star in a 2010 Broadway revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart.
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Patton Oswalt starred in the Showtime drama United States of Tara as Neil, an employee of Four Winds Landscaping.
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Patton Oswalt provided the voice of Thrasher, a robot protagonist from the Cartoon Network show Robotomy.
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Patton Oswalt emceed the 2010 BookExpo America, promoting his then-upcoming book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland and introducing the evening's panelists: Christopher Hitchens, William Gibson, and Sara Gruen.
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Patton Oswalt played the role of Hurlan Heartshe in the 2011 surrealist comedy miniseries The Heart, She Holler on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim.
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Patton Oswalt played Matt Freehauf in Jason Reitman's 2011 black comedy Young Adult.
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Patton Oswalt played Billy Stanhope, ex-best friend of Ashton Kutcher's Walden Schmidt on Two and a Half Men in 2012.
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From September 2013 to May 2023, Patton Oswalt narrated all 10 seasons of the TV series The Goldbergs.
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Patton Oswalt had a recurring role as Constable Bob Sweeney in the fourth season of the FX series Justified.
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Patton Oswalt later appeared in separate episodes as brothers Eric and Billy Koenig.
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Patton Oswalt has appeared in the second season as Billy and a third brother named Sam.
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Patton Oswalt voiced the male version of Jesse in Minecraft: Story Mode, which was released in October 2015.
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Patton Oswalt played Max in the reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000, as the son of Frank Conniff's character TV's Frank.
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Patton Oswalt had a voice-over role in science fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You, which was released in theaters on July 6,2018.
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Patton Oswalt recorded his third comedy album at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on February 28,2009.
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An animated video of Patton Oswalt's take on New Song's Christmas Shoes was posted on YouTube in November 2009.
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Patton Oswalt was featured in an ad campaign for Caesars Sportsbook in 2021, playing a character named Carl.
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On March 24,2023, it was confirmed that Patton Oswalt had joined the cast of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
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In November 2024, Deadline announced that Patton Oswalt was boarding the Oscar-contending short Sardinia as Executive Producer alongside his wife, actress Meredith Salenger.
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Patton Oswalt married true crime writer and journalist Michelle McNamara on September 24,2005.
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Patton Oswalt's death was attributed to a combination of a previously undiagnosed heart condition and complications from ingested medications, including Adderall, Xanax, and fentanyl.
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In September 2017, Patton Oswalt announced that the book, titled I'll Be Gone in the Dark, was scheduled for release on February 27,2018, and was available for preorders.
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Patton Oswalt has been diagnosed with clinical depression, which he has dealt with throughout his adult life.
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Patton Oswalt has incorporated these experiences into his comedy routines.
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Patton Oswalt is a progressive and a supporter of the Democratic Party, having endorsed Barack Obama for re-election as president in 2012 and Joe Biden in 2020.