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Seth Rogen Biography

Seth Rogen is a Canadian comic actor and screenwriter who was born on April 15, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia. In a series of movie office successes, such as Knocked Up, he charmed audiences as a charismatic clown (2007).

• Jewish liberals gave birth to Seth Rogen. At the age of 13, he started performing stand-up comedy in front of audiences that included comedians twice his age. Three years later, he went on the American high school television dramedy Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and was cast as the sarcastic Ken.

• Despite the brief lifespan of the show, producer Judd Apatow was so taken by Seth Rogen’s ease in front of the camera and his gift for improvisation that he decided to engage him as both an actor and a writer for the upcoming college-themed sitcom Undeclared in 2001. Rogen and his boyhood friend Evan Goldberg were hired as writers for the Sacha Baron Cohen showcase Da Ali G Show when that show experienced a similar fate. Seth Rogen made an appearance in a Dawson’s Creek episode that focused on teens.

• While this was going on, Seth Rogan’s collaboration with Apatow continued to pay off as he was given small roles in two of the director’s early films, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), even stealing scenes from Steve Carell, who played the lead. However, his subsequent movie established him as a household figure. Rogen gave another supporting performance in You, Me, and Dupree (2006).

• In the film Knocked Up, written and produced by Apatow, Seth Rogen played an oafish pot-smoking slacker who unintentionally becomes pregnant after having a one-night fling with a beautiful businesswoman (Katherine Heigl). Rogen’s endearing performance cemented his A-list credentials, and the vulgar yet uplifting film made more than $200 million worldwide.

• In the 2009 dark comedy Observe and Report, Rogen played a mall cop. He next co-starred with Adam Sandler in Funny People, another Apatow production about the development of a friendship between two comedians.

• Later, he voiced a wisecracking alien in the science fiction parody Paul, and he played the title role in the superhero movie The Green Hornet (2011), which he and Goldberg adapted from the radio, TV, and comic book franchise of the same name (2011).

• The seriocomic 50/50 (2011), in which Seth Rogen played the encouraging best friend of a young man suffering from spine cancer, and the love triangle drama Take This Waltz (2011) both caught audiences’ attention even though Rogen was largely recognised as a broad performer.

• In the road comedy The Guilt Trip, Rogen played an inventor travelling with his mother, who was portrayed by Barbra Streisand (2012). He later developed and co-directed the hilarious end-of-the-world film This Is the End (2013) with Goldberg, in which he and a group of other young actors—many of whom he had previously worked with—played exaggerated versions of themselves.

• In the satirical Neighbors, Seth Rogen portrayed a young father who had to deal with the challenges of living next to a fraternity home (2014). In the 2016 prequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, he played the part again.

• Franco and Rogen both costarred in The Interview, a daring farce about an attempt to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The movie was supposed to be released in December 2014, but its distributor, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., shelved it after a computer system hack of the business in November and subsequent terrorist threats made by the hackers, who were allegedly acting on orders from North Korea.

• In the end, it was released on Christmas in a select number of independent theatres, on cable television, and internet video streaming services.

• Rogen played Steve Wozniak in the 2015 biopic Steve Jobs, which was about the co-founder of Apple with the same name. In the comedy The Night Before (2015), which is about a group of friends getting together for one final Christmas Eve celebration, he returned to his comedic comfort zone. Rogen co-wrote and voiced the foul-mouthed wiener in the 2016 animated comedy Sausage Party.

• Seth Rogen worked with Franco again the following year in The Disaster Artist, which was shot after The Room (2003), a notoriously terrible film that became a cult classic. Then, in the comedy Like Father (2018), written by his wife Lauren Miller Rogen, he played the love interest of a lady (Kristen Bell) who was recently dumped at the altar. He appeared in the romantic comedy Long Shot as an idealistic journalist who writes speeches for the American secretary of state, his babysitter as a youngster (Charlize Theron).

• In the 2019 version of Disney’s The Lion King, Rogen also provided the voice for the character of Pumbaa. In the comedy An American Pickle (2020), he played a Jewish immigrant who falls into a vat at a pickle plant and is rescued 100 years later, wonderfully preserved.

• Seth Rogen was busy even when the camera wasn’t on him. He co-founded the Canadian cannabis business Houseplant, which was established in 2019, along with Goldberg and many other individuals. Additionally, the company offered ceramics made by potter Rogen. He released Yearbook, a collection of hilarious essays, in 2021.

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