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Jon Cryer
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Jonathan Niven Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He is the son of actress–singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion pic…
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Jonathan Niven Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He is the son of actress–singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame as "Duckie" in the 1986 John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he finished writing and producing the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five, which was well received. Even though he gained some fame by starring in these films, it took several years to find success on television; the shows he had starred in (The Famous Teddy Z, Partners and The Trouble with Normal) did not last very long. In 2003, he was cast as Alan Harper on the CBS hit comedy series Two and a Half Men, opposite Charlie Sheen, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2009. He received three earlier Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the show.
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2026
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
TV show Sherpa
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2025
aka Charlie Sheen
TV show Self
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2024
The Little Pageant That Could
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
BRATS
Movie Self
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2023
Extended Family
TV show Jim Kearney
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show
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2022
Password
TV show Self - Celebrity Guest
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2022
18½
Movie H.R. 'Bob' Haldeman (voice)
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2022
Devoured
TV show Narrator
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2020
Big Time Adolescence
Movie Reuben
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2019
Crisis Aftermath
TV show Self
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2019
Batwoman
TV show Lex Luthor
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
TV show Eugenio Derbez
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2017
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
TV show Jon Cryer
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2017
Drop the Mic
TV show Self
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2017
Will & Grace
TV show Jon Cryer
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2016
Justice League Action
TV show Felix Faust (voice)
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2016
The Great Indoors
TV show Donnie
- 2016
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2016
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
TV show Lex Luthor
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2015
Supergirl
TV show Lex Luthor
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self
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2014
Hit by Lightning
Movie Ricky Miller
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2014
The Flash
TV show Lex Luthor
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2013
Mom
TV show Customer
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2013
Ass Backwards
Movie Dean Morris
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2012
John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
Movie Self
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2012
Arrow
TV show Lex Luthor
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2011
Stay Cool
Movie Javier
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2011
Company
Movie David
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
Due Date
Movie Alan Harper
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2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV show Self
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2009
Shorts
Movie Dad Thompson
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
Weather Girl
Movie Charles
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2008
Tortured
Movie Brian Mark
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2008
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
Movie Richard Pig (voice)
