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Jason Bateman
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Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty…
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Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), as well as for his work in numerous comedy films. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. Bateman began his career as a child actor, appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991. Bateman's early film roles include Teen Wolf Too (1987) and Necessary Roughness (1991) before taking supporting roles in The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), and Up in the Air (2009). Bateman went on to star in various successful comedy films such as The Switch (2010), The Change-Up (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), Identity Thief (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Office Christmas Party (2016), and Game Night (2018). He expanded into dramatic roles with The Gift (2015), The Outsider (2020), Air (2023), and Carry-On (2024). He also voiced Nick Wilde in the Disney animated films Zootopia (2016) and its 2025 sequel. Bateman made his directorial debut with an episode of The Hogan Family, at the time setting the record for the youngest director in the Directors Guild of America. He has since directed and starred in the films Bad Words (2013) and The Family Fang (2015), and in the television series Ozark (2017-2022), The Outsider (2020), Black Rabbit (2025), and DTF St. Louis (2026). Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 for his direction on Ozark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Bateman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Evil Genius
Movie Producer
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2026
Outcome
Movie Thanks
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2026
DTF St. Louis
TV show Clark Forrest
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2026
Skip Intro
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
Zootopia 2
Movie Nick Wilde (voice)
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2025
Black Rabbit
TV show Vince Friedken
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2025
Hell of a Summer
Movie Producer
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2024
Carry-On
Movie Traveler
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2024
Hit Man
Movie Producer
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2023
Lessons in Chemistry
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Once Upon a Studio
Movie Nick Wilde (voice)
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2023
Based on a True Story
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
SmartLess: On the Road
TV show Self
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2023
Fool's Paradise
Movie SPFX Tech
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2023
Florida Man
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Air
Movie Rob Strasser
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2023
Outlast
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Your Place or Mine
Movie Producer
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2022
Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery
Movie Jason Bateman
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2022
Zootopia+
TV show Nick Wilde (voice)
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2022
A Farewell to Ozark
Movie Self
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2022
Under the Banner of Heaven
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Movie Tim Holifield
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2021
Thunder Force
Movie The Crab
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2021
Directors on Directors
TV show Self
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2020
A Teacher
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
Question & Answer
Movie Self
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2020
The Outsider
TV show Terry Maitland
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2019
I'm a LA… Get Me Out of Here!
TV show Self - Contestant
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2018
Kidding
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
TV show Self
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2018
Game Night
Movie Max
- 2018
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2017
Ozark
TV show Marty Byrde
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2016
Office Christmas Party
Movie Josh Parker
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2016
Central Intelligence
Movie Trevor
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2016
The Family Fang
Movie Baxter Fang
- 2016
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2016
Disneyland 60: The Wonderful World of Disney
Movie Self
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2016
Zootopia
Movie Nick Wilde (voice)
