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George Wendt (uncle) Daniel Jason Sudeikis[1] (/ sʊˈdeɪkɪs / suu-DAY-kiss; born September 18, 1975) [1] is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter. In the 1990s, he began his career in improv comedy and performed with ComedySportz, iO Chicago (Improv Olympic), and The Second City. In 2003, Sudeikis was hired as a writer for the NBC ...
Jason Sudeikis. Actor: Ted Lasso. Jason Sudeikis was born on September 18, 1975 in Fairfax, Virginia as Daniel Jason Sudeikis. His father is Daniel Joseph Sudeikis, a Vice President of a business development and his mother is Kathryn (née Wendt), a travel agent at Brennco and President of the American Society of Travel Agents.
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Ted Lasso: Created by Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis. With Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster. American college football coach Ted Lasso heads to London to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League soccer team.
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May 31, 2023. (2023-05-31) Ted Lasso (/ ˈlæsoʊ / LASS-oh) is an American sports comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, based on a character Sudeikis portrayed in a series of promotional media for NBC Sports 's coverage of England's Premier League. [1]
- Overview
- Early life and improv comedy
- Saturday Night Live
- Hall Pass, Horrible Bosses, and We’re the Millers
- Ted Lasso
- Personal life
Jason Sudeikis (born September 18, 1975, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.) American comedian, actor, and writer who first garnered attention for his work (2003–13) on the TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL) and later starred in the hugely popular series Ted Lasso (2020–23).
Sudeikis is the eldest of three children born to Kathryn (née Wendt) Sudeikis, who worked in the travel industry, and Daniel Sudeikis, a business executive. George Wendt, an alumnus of the Second City comedy troupe who played Norm Peterson on the sitcom Cheers, is an uncle. Jason Sudeikis and his family initially lived in Fairfax, Virginia, but later moved to Overland Park, Kansas. He was a standout player on his high school’s basketball team, and he later received a basketball scholarship to Fort Scott Community College. Once there, however, he soon shifted his focus to the school’s theater department. In addition, on the weekends he began taking improv comedy classes at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City, Missouri. Sudeikis eventually left college to focus on a comedy career.
Sudeikis moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Annoyance Theatre and the ImprovOlympic (later called iO Theater). In 1998 he cofounded the long-form improv group J.T.S. Brown. He also performed with the comedy troupe Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. In addition, Sudeikis was a member of the Second City Touring Company and was a founding member of Second City Las Vegas.
In 2003 Sudeikis was hired as a writer for SNL, the landmark sketch-comedy show. In his early years with the program, he also made occasional appearances as an extra, and in 2005 he became a featured player, the lower tier of cast members. The following year Sudeikis was elevated to repertory player status. While on SNL he became known for his impr...
While on Saturday Night Live, Sudeikis appeared in numerous other projects. From 2007 to 2010 he had a guest role on 30 Rock, the sitcom created by former SNL cast member and head writer Tina Fey; he was cast as Floyd, a love interest of Fey’s character. In the early 2010s Sudeikis played a recurring character on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a raunchy comedy series, and the sports dramedy Eastbound & Down.
During this time Sudeikis also launched a film career. In 2007 he made his big-screen debut, appearing in the romantic comedies Watching the Detectives and The Ten and in the dramedy Meet Bill. Sudeikis subsequently had supporting roles in the rom-coms What Happens in Vegas (2008), The Bounty Hunter (2010), and Going the Distance (2010).
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Bigger roles followed, and in 2011 Sudeikis starred with Owen Wilson in Hall Pass, a comedy about two men whose wives allow them to take a break from their marriages for one week. That year he also starred in the popular comedy Horrible Bosses, in which friends decide to murder their bosses; he reprised his role as Kurt in the 2014 sequel. Both films starred Jennifer Aniston, and the two later appeared in We’re the Millers (2013), a road-trip comedy about a small-time drug dealer who forms a fake family in order to transport a drug shipment across the U.S.–Mexico border.
Taking a break from comedies, Sudeikis appeared in Race (2016), a dramatic biopic about legendary athlete Jesse Owens. His other credits from 2016 include Garry Marshall’s rom-com Mother’s Day, which also featured Aniston, Julia Roberts, and Kate Hudson. In 2017 Sudeikis continued to show his range, starring with Ed Harris in Kodachrome, a drama about a dying photographer and his estranged son. That year he also had a supporting role in Alexander Payne’s sci-fi drama Downsizing.
In 2013–14 Sudeikis starred in a series of NBC commercials promoting the Premier League, an English football (soccer) league. He portrayed a blustering American football coach who is accidentally hired as a Premier League coach, despite knowing little about the sport. That concept was subsequently expanded into the Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso. Release...
From 2004 to 2010 Sudeikis was married to writer and director Kay Cannon. In 2011 he began dating Olivia Wilde, an actress and director. The two became engaged in 2013, and they later had two children. In 2019 Sudeikis appeared in Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart. The following year the couple broke up, and their split became fodder for the tab...
SUDEIKIS. Winner of 11 Emmy® Awards, including back-to-back Outstanding Comedy Series wins (2021, 2022). Jason Sudeikis is a football coach leading a British soccer team. What he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for with optimism...and biscuits. The first three seasons are now available on Apple TV +.
Sep 19, 2021 · Jason Sudeikis won best actor in a comedy series for Ted Lasso at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night.. Upon accepting his award for portraying the titular character in the Apple TV+ ...
