Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor,
director, and producer. He began acting on television in the early
1980s on Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, and The Hogan
Family. In the 2000s, he became known for his role of Michael Bluth on
the sitcom Arrested Development, for which he won a Golden Globe and a
Satellite Award. He has also starred in the films Teen Wolf Too
(1987), The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), Up in the
Air, Couples Retreat, Extract (all 2009), The Switch (2010), Horrible
Bosses (2011) and its sequel (2014), The Gift (2015), Office Christmas
Party, Zootopia (both 2016), and Game Night (2018).Bateman made his
directorial debut with the black comedy Bad Words (2013), in which he
also starred. He has since directed and starred in The Family Fang
(2015) and the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017â€"present).
Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing
for a Drama Series in 2019 for his directing of Ozark and has won a
Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. In 2020, he directed
and had a recurring role in the HBO miniseries The Outsider.Bateman
was born in Rye, New York, and was 4 years old when his family moved
to Salt Lake City, Utah, and later to California. His mother, Victoria
Elizabeth, was a flight attendant for Pan Am who was originally from
Shrewsbury, England. His father, Kent Bateman, is an American actor,
writer, and director of film and television, and the founder of a
repertory stage in Hollywood. His older sister is actress Justine
Bateman. He also has three half-brothers.
director, and producer. He began acting on television in the early
1980s on Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, and The Hogan
Family. In the 2000s, he became known for his role of Michael Bluth on
the sitcom Arrested Development, for which he won a Golden Globe and a
Satellite Award. He has also starred in the films Teen Wolf Too
(1987), The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), Up in the
Air, Couples Retreat, Extract (all 2009), The Switch (2010), Horrible
Bosses (2011) and its sequel (2014), The Gift (2015), Office Christmas
Party, Zootopia (both 2016), and Game Night (2018).Bateman made his
directorial debut with the black comedy Bad Words (2013), in which he
also starred. He has since directed and starred in The Family Fang
(2015) and the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017â€"present).
Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing
for a Drama Series in 2019 for his directing of Ozark and has won a
Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. In 2020, he directed
and had a recurring role in the HBO miniseries The Outsider.Bateman
was born in Rye, New York, and was 4 years old when his family moved
to Salt Lake City, Utah, and later to California. His mother, Victoria
Elizabeth, was a flight attendant for Pan Am who was originally from
Shrewsbury, England. His father, Kent Bateman, is an American actor,
writer, and director of film and television, and the founder of a
repertory stage in Hollywood. His older sister is actress Justine
Bateman. He also has three half-brothers.
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