Michael Cera

Born: June 7, 1988
Where: Brampton, Ontario, Canada

The actor has delivered critically-acclaimed performances in the comedies Superbad and Juno.

He is also well known in American for playing George Michael Bluth in the TV series Arrested Development.

The son of a Sicilian photocopier technician, Cera is the the middle child of three siblings.

He attended Heart Lake Secondary School but completed his high school education through correspondence via the internet.

His first role was an unpaid appearance in a Tim Hortons' Summer Camp commercial but he really kicked off his career with his portratal of the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002.

He went on to provide 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 scrapped.

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 CV created by Aleksey Vayner.

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.

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.

The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed via CBS's new internet channel, Innertube.

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.

Hitting his professional stride, Cera starred alongside Jonah Hill in the film Superbad, which was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

The same year, he co-starred in Juno (written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman), playing Paulie Bleeker, who unexpectedly impregnates his long time teenage friend Juno (Ellen Page).