Michael Cera

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Modèle:Infobox actor Michael Austin Cera (Modèle:PronEng; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian television and film actor, best known for playing George Michael Bluth in Arrested Development and Evan in Superbad.

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1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
2 Filmography
- 2.1 Film
- 2.2 Television
3 References
4 External links

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Biography

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Personal life

Cera, the middle child of three siblings, was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, the son of Linda and Luigi Cera, a Xerox technician.<ref name="Luigi"> Leszcz , Benjamin

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Career

Cera played the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002 and provided the voice for Brother Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated series and voiced Josh Spitz in the cartoon Braceface. He played George Michael Bluth in the award winning television series Arrested Development for three seasons before it was canceled.<ref name="Guardian"/> In 2005, he starred as Harold in the award winning surreal humour short film Darling Darling, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the San Gio Festival in Verona, Italy. In late 2006, he created and starred in a parody of the YouTube video Impossible is Nothing, a video résumé created by Aleksey Vayner.<ref>[1] Youtube Impossible is the Opposite of Possible</ref> He also guest-starred in an episode of teen noir drama Veronica Mars (in the episode The Rapes of Graff, which also featured Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat), and also in the Adult Swim series Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Cera, along with Clark Duke, wrote and starred in a series of short videos released on their website.<ref name="Guardian"/> In 2007, they signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and Michael.<ref>[2]Clark and Michael website</ref> The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed via CBS's new internet channel, Innertube.<ref>[3] Wired Sitcom to Bitcom</ref> Cera also appeared in a staged comedy video that shows Cera being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up, after belittling and arguing with the director, in a scene that mocks the David O. Russell blow up on the set of I Heart Huckabees.<ref name="Guardian"/> Another clip featured actor James Franco in a similar situation.

Cera starred alongside Jonah Hill in the hit # 1 movie Superbad, which was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film, which opened in North America on August 17, 2007, is semi-autobiographical, with Cera playing a character named Evan. In November 2007, Cera hosted Saturday Night Live on strike, a version of SNL not shown on TV due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike. Also in the same year, Cera co-starred in Juno (written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman), playing Paulie Bleeker, who unexpectedly gets his long time teenage friend Juno (Ellen Page) pregnant.

Cera will next star in film adaptations of the novels Youth in Revolt (playing lead character Nick Twisp)<ref name="twisp"> Dimension Films

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Cera is in a band called The Long Goodbye with Clark Duke and Christian Buenaventura.

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Filmography

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Frequency	Gordy Jr., Age 10
2000	Steal This Movie	America Hoffman, Age 7-8
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Chuck Barris, Age 8 and 11
2005	Darling Darling	Harold
2007	Superbad	Evan
2007	Juno	Paulie Bleeker
2008	Parental Guidance Suggested
2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Nick O'Leary	filming
2009	Youth in Revolt	Nick Twisp	pre-production
2009	Year One		pre-production

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Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	I Was A Sixth Grade Alien	Larrabe Hicks	Series regular
1998–2001	Rolie Polie Olie	Little Gizmo	Series regular, voice only
2001–2002	The Berenstain Bears	Brother Bear	Series regular, voice only
2001–2005	Braceface	Josh Spitz	Series regular, voice only
2003–2006	Arrested Development	George Michael Bluth	Series regular
2005–2007	Wayside	Todd	Pilot, voice only