Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is the star of the HBO dark comedy series Barry and co-creator of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! Hader has had supporting roles in the films Hot Rod, Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Adventureland, Paul, and Men in Black 3. He has also voiced leading and supporting characters in animated films such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
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Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is the star of the HBO dark comedy series Barry and co-creator of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! Hader has had supporting roles in the films Hot Rod, Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Adventureland, Paul, and Men in Black 3. He has also voiced leading and supporting characters in animated films such as the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise. Hader was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 7, 1978, and is the son of dance teacher Sherri Renee and air cargo company owner, restaurant manager, truck driver, and occasional stand-up comedian William Thomas Hader. His ancestry includes Danish, English, German, and Irish, and he discovered in a 2016 episode of Finding Your Roots that he is a descendant of royal figures such as Charlemagne and King Edward I. He was unable to gain admission to top film schools because of his “abysmal” grades, so he instead enrolled at The Art Institute of Phoenix, and later Scottsdale Community College. He dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles in 1999 to work as a production assistant on the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life. He eventually quit being a PA after a bad experience while shooting The Scorpion King. He invested money into his own short film, Offerman, but was too embarrassed to release it. He quickly realized that comedy was the creative outlet that he had needed since he decided to leave their new education behind.
He and his girlfriend broke up, and then he began attending comedy classes with friends at improvisational comedy troupe Offerman. He also worked as a PA on the documentary Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy and the feature films James Dean, Spider-Man, and Collateral Damage. He has won two and been nominated for three Emmy Awards for both of its first two seasons of Barry. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters, and has a son with his ex-wife, Amy Poehler, and a daughter with ex-boyfriend, Jason Priestley. He lives with his parents in Los Angeles and has two younger sisters named Katie and Kara. He says he was a “spaz kid” in elementary school, who had “a hard time focusing in class” and “was always joking around” and filled his time watching movies and reading. He once worked as an usher at a Tempe cinema, which allowed him to see films for free, but he was fired for spoiling the ending of Titanic for unruly viewers. His parents were supportive of his decision to use the money they had saved up for his education to cover his living expenses in Los Los Angeles. He found work as The Hollywood Reporter, and hoped to advance far enough to become an assistant director, and eventually worked on The SurReal Life.
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