Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his role as George Michael Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development. Cera made his Broadway debut in the 2014 production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth. He has also voiced the voices of Dick Grayson Robin in The Lego Batman Movie, Barry in Sausage Party, and Sal Viscuso in Childrens Hospital.
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Michael Austin Cera (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his role as George Michael Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development. Cera made his Broadway debut in the 2014 production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth. In addition to acting, Cera is a musician, having released his debut album True That in 2014. In 2007, he signed a deal with CBS Television to write, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled The Rapes of Michael Clark and Michael Clark. He has also voiced the voices of Dick Grayson Robin in The Lego Batman Movie, Barry in Sausage Party, and Sal Viscuso, the voice behind the announcements in Childrens Hospital. In 2018, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 2018 production of Lobby Hero. He also starred as a guest star in the teen drama Veronica Mars in the episode “The Rapes” with best friend and fellow Arrested development co-star Al Sharpton. His father is Sicilian, and his mother has Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and English ancestry. He was born in Brampton, Ontario, and has an elder sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly. He attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine, but then completed school online through grade 12. He became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three.
He memorized all the dialogue and idolized Bill Murray. He enrolled in The Second City, Toronto, and took improvisation classes. In 2002, he played the young Chuck Barris in the George Clooney-directed film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He provided the voice for Brother Bear – an anthropomorphic bear – in the 2003 The Berenstain Bears animated series, which aired for three seasons. He appeared in several television films in 2001 including My Louisiana Sky and The Familiar Stranger and also began voicing Josh Spitz in the animated series Braceface, continuing to do so until 2004. In 2006, he created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, a video réé created by a pair of college students. He starred in the short film Along with The Duke, which was distributed via internet channel Innertube and distributed via CBS’s Innerturn channel. In 2009, he starred in an episode of The Raped, which featured guest stars such as David Cross, Richter Cross, and Patton Oswalt. In 2012, he appeared in the film Juno as Paulie Bleeker, the son of Noah Emmerich’s character in the science fiction film Frequency. In 2013, he made his theatrical film debut in a film called Steal This Movie! and Ultimate G’s: Zac’s Flying Dream in 2000, the latter of which featured Cera in his first leading role.
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