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For the British politician, see John Cryer.
Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress/singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut by starring in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame by starring as "Duckie" in the John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink. In 1998 he finished writing and producing the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five, which was well received.[1] Even though Cryer gained some fame by starring in these movies, he had not found television success for several years; the shows he had starred in (The Famous Teddy Z, Partners and The Trouble with Normal) all did not last very long. In 2003 he was cast to portray Alan Harper on the CBS hit comedy series Two and a Half Men, opposite Charlie Sheen, for which Cryer won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2009.[2] He received three earlier Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the show. [3][4][5]
[edit] Early lifeCryer is the son of Gretchen Cryer (née Kiger), a Jewish playwright, songwriter, actress, and singer, and Donald David Cryer, an actor, singer, and producer.[6][7] He has two sisters, Robin and Shelley.[8] When he was 12 years old he decided that he wanted to become an actor.[9] When his mother heard this she thought he should have a backup plan and joked "Plumbing is a pretty good career".[8] Cryer attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center for several summers as a teenager[10] and is a 1983 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.[11] [edit] Career At age 19, Cryer first appeared in the 1984 romantic comedy film No Small Affair, having the lead role as Charles Cummings.[12] He went on to have small roles in films and television movies, and he made his breakthrough when he was cast to portray Phil "Duckie" Dale in the John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink.[13] In an interview with the Daily News, Cryer's mother said that after Pretty in Pink, she started getting calls from teenage girls from all over the world, who would leave hysterical, giggling messages on her answering machine.[8] Thanks to Pretty in Pink, Cryer slowly became more famous. In 1987, he portrayed Superman villain Lenny Luthor in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.[8] In 1989, he got the lead role in the TV comedy series, The Famous Teddy Z. His performance gained poor reviews[14] and the show was canceled after the first season.[14] One year later, he starred with Charlie Sheen in the Jim Abrahams comedy Hot Shots!,[9] which was received very positively.[15] Cryer is frequently linked to the Brat Pack.[16] In a March 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Cryer stated that he had auditioned for St. Elmo's Fire and did not get it.[17] In 1993, he was asked to audition for the role of Chandler Bing on Friends, while he was doing a play in London. His reading was videotaped by a British casting agent but the tape failed to arrive in the U.S. before the network had made its final decision.[9] In 1995 he was cast to portray Bob in the sitcom Partners, which, like his prior show The Famous Teddy Z, was canceled after its first season. In an interview with Time Out New York he stated, "Hey, every show I'm in goes down. Think about this: George Clooney was in 28 pilots, or something. It means nothing".[8] After guest starring on shows such as Dharma & Greg and The Outer Limits, he successfully wrote and produced his first film, Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five. It debuted in 1998 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and gained positive reviews from critics.[1] Leonard Maltin from Playboy Magazine called it "A Breath of Fresh Air".[18] In 2000, he got the lead in a comedy series called Trouble With Normal. For the third time, Cryer starred in a show which was canceled after its first season.[19] Cryer's unsuccessful track record with TV finally came to a halt three years later. Against the wishes of CBS executives (who were aware of his past failures), he was cast in 2003 to portray Alan Harper on the hit comedy series Two and a Half Men. To date, he has earned four Primetime Emmy Award nominations and one win[2] for his acting work on the show.[3][4][5] In a comment on the show's high ratings, he said, "When you’re on a show that's fighting for survival every week, you stop trusting your instincts, because you think, ‘My instincts haven't worked so far.’ But when people clearly like the show and are watching it in great numbers, it takes a huge amount of pressure off you. It allows you to trust your instincts and go with what has worked for you before".[9] Before being cast for Two and a Half Men, Jon Cryer tried out for the role of Gaius Baltar on the Sci-Fi Channel's reimagined Battlestar Galactica. In the end the role went to James Callis. [20] In 2008, Cryer appeared with Laurence Fishburne and James Cromwell in the film Tortured,[21] and in 2009 co-starred with James Spader in the film Shorts.[22] Cryer's voice can also be heard doing voice-overs for Wells Fargo in the company's radio and television ads. In 2008, Cryer endorsed John McCain's candidacy for president of the United States. [edit] Personal lifeCryer married British-born actress Sarah Trigger in 1999, by whom he has a son, Charlie Austin,[8] but the pair divorced in 2004. In February 2007, on an episode of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, he announced that he was going to marry entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner; the couple married in Mexico[8] in June 2007.[23][24] On September 29, 2009, it was announced that Jon and Lisa had adopted a baby girl, whom they named Daisy.[25] Cryer is often mistaken for Matthew Broderick,[8] in an interview with Time Out New York he stated:
As a joke, he twice claimed to be Broderick in an episode of Two and a Half Men, first in an attempt to get into a club as a celebrity (though the bouncer didn't know who Broderick was) and later to get a doctor to treat his brother's chest pains; the doctor later asked him why there was no sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off.[26] [edit] Filmography[edit] Film work
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