Jonathan Favreau is an American actor, filmmaker, television creator and television director. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in the films Rudy, Swingers, Very Bad Things, The Replacements, Daredevil, The Break-Up, Couples Retreat, and Chef. As a filmmaker, he has been a presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is the creator and one of the executive producers and directors of the Star Wars Disney+ original series The Mandalorian.
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Jonathan Favreau is an American actor, filmmaker, television creator and television director. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in the films Rudy, Swingers, Very Bad Things, The Replacements, Daredevil, The Break-Up, Couples Retreat, and Chef. As a filmmaker, he has been a presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, mainly with his collaboration with Robert Downey Jr. He is the creator and one of the executive producers and directors of the Star Wars Disney+ original series The Mandalorian. He also presents the television cooking series The Chef Show. Favreau was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the son of Madeleine, an elementary school teacher who died of leukemia in 1979, and Charles Favreau, a special education teacher. His mother was Jewish, and his father is a Catholic of Italian and French-Canadian ancestry. He dropped out of Hebrew school to pursue acting. He briefly worked for Bear Stearns on Wall Street before returning to Queens College for a semester in early 1988. He attended Queens College from 1984 to 1987, before dropping out. His friend from college, Mitchell Pollack, said that Favreau went by the nickname ‘Johnny Hack’ because of his talent in the game Hacky Sack. He met Vince Vaughn – who played a small role in this film – during shooting. In 2001, he made his film directorial debut with another self-penned screenplay, Made Made once teamed him up with Swingers co-star Vince Vaughn.
In the fall of 2003, he scored his first financial success as director of the hit comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Peter Dinklage. He was a guest-director for an episode of The Sopranos episode ‘D-Girl’ in 2001. He starred in the 2003 movie The Big Empty by Steve Anderson, and also starred in The Empty Person by John Anderson. He appeared in 2000’s The Replacement as maniacal linebacker Daniel Bateman, and that same year he played himself in The Sopranoos episode \”D- girl\”, as a Hollywood director who feigns interest in developing mob associate Christopher Moltisanti’s screenplay in order to collect material for his own screenplay. In 1999, he starred in television film Rocky Marciano, based on the life of world heavyweight champion, RockyMarciano. He later appeared in Love & Sex, co- starring Famke Janssen. In 1997, he appeared on the television sitcom Friends, portraying Pete Becker – Monica Geller’s millionaire boyfriend who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship – for several episodes. He has also starred as lawyer Foggy Nelson in The Bigger The Better in the movie Daredevil. His character John Person was given a mission to deliver a blue suitcase to a man named Cowboy in the desert in the film The First Million Is Always the Hardest.
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