Jason Sudeikis
Sudeikis at the 2009 New York Television Festival
Born	Daniel Jason Sudeikis September 18, 1975 (1975-09-18) (age 34) Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Kay Cannon (separated)

Daniel Jason Sudeikis^[1] (born September 18, 1975) (pronounced: suh-DAY-kiss) is an American actor and comedian.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Saturday Night Live 3.1 Recurring characters 3.2 Celebrity impressions 4 Filmography 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Personal life

Sudeikis was born in Fairfax, Virginia to parents Dan and Cathy, and is of partial Lithuanian descent.^{[citation needed]} He moved to Overland Park, Kansas with his family as a child. Sudeikis considers Overland Park to be his hometown.^[2] He attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School, both of which are located in Overland Park. He began high school at the Jesuit Rockhurst High School in 1991, later transferring to Shawnee Mission West High School, where he was a point guard for the boys' basketball team, graduating in 1994. Sudeikis is proud of being from Kansas and often references Kansas in SNL sketches.^[2] Sudeikis is also a long time die-hard Kansas Jayhawks fan^[2][3] and has worked KU themes and well known Lawrence, Kansas locations into several sketches on SNL.

Sudeikis was married to actress and 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon but they have separated. He is the nephew of actor and frequent 1990s-era Saturday Night Live guest star George Wendt - known for his role as "Norm" from Cheers. He has two sisters, Lindsay and Kristin. Kristin is a budding actress and dancer in New York City, and has also appeared in an episode of 30 Rock.

Sudeikis's next movie will be The Bounty Hunter, currently in production and projected to be released in 2010. He will be starring alongside Gerard Butler (who plays the Bounty Hunter) and Jennifer Aniston (as Cassidy). Sudeikis will play Cassidy's colleague who falls in love with her and mistakenly assumes she is his girlfriend.^[4]

[edit] Career

In 2003, Sudeikis was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live at the recommendation of Jeff Richmond, husband of then head writer Tina Fey, when he was performing at The Second City in Las Vegas and later, in May 2005, became a featured player on the show. He became famous for his impersonation of American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, as well as one-half of the A-Hole duo with Kristen Wiig (one of many sketches in which the two are paired). He was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of the show's 32nd season on September 30, 2006.

Before being hired by Saturday Night Live, Sudeikis performed at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City, where he co-founded a sketch comedy troupe called Der Monkenpickle. After moving to Chicago, Sudeikis studied at iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) where he was one of the founding members of the legendary long-form team JTS Brown, whose form is now part of the curriculum in Level 5 classes at iO. He was later cast in The Second City's National Touring Company and has performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. While with The Second City, he became a founding member of Second City Las Vegas. He has also studied at ImprovOlympic and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, and frequently performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York.

Sudeikis had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in early 2007, appearing in a total of seven episodes. He played Floyd, a love interest of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon. He made another appearance as Floyd in a 2008 episode.

He also plays the role of extreme right-wing talk show host Richard Bastion on the fictional radio station WKTT, in Grand Theft Auto IV. He was recently in the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher led comedy What Happens in Vegas as Cameron Diaz's character's ex-boyfriend.

In July 2008, Sudeikis co-starred in the web series The Line on Crackle.^[5]

Sudeikis has recurring roles on Fox's The Cleveland Show. One character is Cleveland's wanna-be hipster neighbor, Holt, and the other is Terry Kimple - an old high school friend of Cleveland's and now co-worker at the cable company.

[edit] Saturday Night Live

[edit] Recurring characters

• Male A-Hole ("Two A-Holes...") with Kristen Wiig as the Female A-Hole
• Gil, a news anchor who treats his field correspondent Michelle Dison's (Kristen Wiig) misfortunes as amusement
• One of the guys from the "Song Memories" sketches who is the first to tell strange stories about where he was when he first heard a song.
• Ed Mahoney, a brash man who often makes a fool of himself in public.
• Officer Sikorsky, a police offer who brings in convict Lorenzo McIntosh (Kenan Thompson) in an attemp to "scare straight" the three delinquent teens (Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Andy Samberg, and occasionally the weeks guest host) that he often arrests.
• "What Up With That?" Dancer, a hip-hop dancer usually dressed in a red and white RUN-DMC-style Adidas tracksuit, often seen as one of the background performers on the "What Up With That?" talk show.
• One half of Bon Jovi backwards band 'Jon Bovi' appearing on weekend update with Will Forte

[edit] Celebrity impressions

Alan Mulally Bill Frist Bill Oefelein Bill Paxton (as Bill Henrickson from Big Love) Bob Knight Bret Michaels Bruce Vilanch (as one of the "Dakota Fanning Show" writers) Dane Cook Dick Tracy Doug Stanhope Dr. John Eli Manning Fozzie Bear George Allen George W. Bush Glenn Beck Harry Connick, Jr. Jimmy Stewart John Krasinski (as Jim Halpert) Howard Dean Joaquin Phoenix Joe Biden Joe Buck John King

Jon Bon Jovi Jon Heder (as Napoleon Dynamite) Josh Peck (from the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh) Mark Sanford Mitch McConnell Nick Carter (musician) Phil Simms Philip Seymour Hoffman Richard Dawson Richard S. Fuld, Jr. Richie Sambora Ricky Gervais Rod Blagojevich Roger Clemens Scott McClellan Simon Cowell Taylor Hicks Ted Allen Terry Moran Tim Finchem Todd Palin Tom Tancredo Zack Snyder Wolf Blitzer

[edit] Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1998	Alien Avengers II	Chester
2007	The Ten	Tony Contiella
2007	Watching the Detectives	Jonathan
2007	Meet Bill	Jim Whittman
2008	The Rocker	David Marshall
2008	Semi-Pro	Nacho Fan
2008	What Happens in Vegas	Mason
2009	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy	N/A	(completed)
2010	The Bounty Hunter	N/A	(in production)
	Going the Distance	Box	(post-production)
	The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	Henry	(pre-production)
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003-present	Saturday Night Live	Various	91 episodes
2007	Wainy Days	Handsome David	Episode: Plugged
2007-08	30 Rock	Floyd	8 Episodes
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	Richard Bastion	VG (Voice Role)
	Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08	Joe Biden/Various	(also archive footage)
	Children's Hospital	Dr. Robert "Bobby" Fiscus	Episode 1.5 Episode 1.7
	Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday	Various	Episode 1.1 Episode 1.3 Episode 2.1 Episode 2.2 Episode 2.3
2009	The Cleveland Show	Holt	Episode: Pilot Episode: Da Daggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance Episode: The One About Friends Episode: Birth of a Salesman Episode: Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb Episode: Ladies' Night

[edit] See also

• Saturday Night Live cast

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jason Sudeikis at the Internet Movie Database
• MySpace
• We Are Movie Geeks Interview
• Childrens' Hospital -- streaming episodes on the WB
• Jason Sudeikis at SNL.org

v • d • e Current Saturday Night Live cast members Repertory players Fred Armisen · Will Forte · Bill Hader · Seth Meyers · Andy Samberg · Jason Sudeikis · Kenan Thompson · Kristen Wiig Featured players Abby Elliott  · Bobby Moynihan  · Nasim Pedrad  · Jenny Slate