Jon Favreau
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Queens, New York, USA
An actor whose solid everyman quality has endeared him to audiences and critics alike, Jon Favreau first made his name with 1996's Swingers. The story of a group of rat pack-obsessed, out-of-work actors slumming amiably through life in L.A., the indie-comedy was one of the year's biggest sleeper hits and made a star out of Favreau, who also wrote the script.A native of Queens, NY, where he was born on October 19, 1966, Favreau was raised as the only child of two educators. After attending the Bronx High School of Science, he did an abbreviated stint at Queens College before heading to Chicago to pursue a comedy career. In Chicago, he studied improvisational comedy with Del Close and was a member of the ImrovOlympic troupe. Favreau's time in Chicago ended when he decided to head to L.A. to try and break into film; his experiences as a lovelorn, out-of-work actor would later provide the inspiration for Swingers.After years of false hopes and false starts that took the form of supporting roles in such disappointing films as Rudy and P.C.U., Favreau began channeling his experiences and those of his friends (who included fellow Swingers star Vince Vaughn) into a rudimentary script for Swingers. Encouraged to make his script into a film, the actor despaired of securing enough funding for the project until he met fledgling director Doug Liman, who convinced him that the film could be made for 250,000 dollars. Costs were cut by filming largely without permits and making use of inexpensive shooting locations such as Favreau's own apartment. The film's low-budget charm was sufficient enough to sway the powers-that-be at Miramax who picked it up for distribution. When Swingers was eventually released in 1996, it was hailed by critics as a funny and painfully accurate account of the L.A. scene and its various faux-hipster denizens, as well as the dynamics at work amongst a group of guys (Favreau, Vaughn, and company) and the women they try so desperately to impress. In the wake of the film's success, Favreau, who was being hailed as the latest in the long line of Hollywood "Next Big Things," chose to star in Very Bad Things (1998), a black comedy directed by actor-turned-director Peter Berg. The film, in which Favreau played a soon-to-be married man whose Las Vegas bachelor party goes disastrously wrong, received very mixed reviews, although most critics praised the actor's performance as a "suburban Joe" caught up in circumstances that rapidly spiral beyond his control. After playing the eponymous boxing legend in the made-for-TV Rocky Marciano in 1999, Favreau returned to the screen in 2000 to star as a football player in The Replacements, a sports comedy directed by Howard Deutch. That same year, he returned to the indie scene with Love & Sex, a take on urban romance. In 2001, Favreau re-teamed with Vaughn for Made, a crime comedy that cast the two actors as aspiring mobsters and marked Favreau's feature directorial debut. Also in 2001, Favreau made the jump to the small screen, producing and hosting IFC's Dinner for Five, a candid roundtable program featuring fellow actors and filmmakers. In 2003, not only did Favreau show up in supporting roles in the hits Daredevil and Something's Gotta Give, his sophomore directorial effort, the Will Ferrell holiday comedy Elf proved to be one of the season's biggest crowd-pleasers, grossing over 100 million dollars at the box office. He followed up that success by bringing Chris Van Allsburg's Zathura to the big screen, although it did not match Elf's box office success. After making a few cameos on TV shows like My Name Is Earl and Monk, Favreau re-teamed with Vince Vaughn once again for a supporting role in the 2006 comedy The Break-Up. He also lent his vocal talents to the animated film Open Season. That same year he announced he would be taking on directorial duties for the big screen adaptation of the comic book Iron Man. Though it wouldn't be released until 2008, Iron Man was a huge success,
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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100% | As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM |
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— | 2016 |
0% | Term Life |
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$13.5k | 2016 |
94% | The Jungle Book |
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$364M | 2016 |
33% | Entourage |
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— | 2015 |
76% | Avengers: Age of Ultron |
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$429.2M | 2015 |
87% | Chef |
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$23.7M | 2014 |
36% | Misery Loves Comedy |
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$5.8k | 2014 |
79% | The Wolf of Wall Street |
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$91.4M | 2013 |
53% | People Like Us |
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$12.5M | 2012 |
69% | Revenge of the Electric Car |
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$0.2M | 2011 |
44% | Cowboys & Aliens |
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$100.3M | 2011 |
14% | Zookeeper |
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$80.4M | 2011 |
0% | Brother's Justice |
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— | 2011 |
10% | Couples Retreat |
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$109.2M | 2009 |
83% | I Love You, Man |
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$71.3M | 2009 |
25% | Four Christmases |
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$120.2M | 2008 |
60% | Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland |
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$0.5M | 2008 |
48% | Open Season |
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$84.3M | 2006 |
34% | The Break-Up |
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$118.7M | 2006 |
76% | Zathura: A Space Adventure |
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$28.1M | 2005 |
61% | Wimbledon |
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$16.9M | 2004 |
85% | Elf |
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$173.4M | 2003 |
44% | Daredevil |
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$102.5M | 2003 |
71% | The Big Empty |
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— | 2003 |
11% | The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest |
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— | 2002 |
71% | Made |
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$3.7M | 2001 |
47% | Love & Sex |
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— | 2000 |
33% | Rocky Marciano |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Dogtown |
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— | 1998 |
41% | Very Bad Things |
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— | 1998 |
45% | Deep Impact |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Notes From Underground |
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— | 1998 |
14% | Persons Unknown |
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— | 1996 |
87% | Swingers |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Notes From the Underground |
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— | 1995 |
75% | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Mrs. Parker and the Round Table) |
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— | 1994 |
78% | Rudy |
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— | 1993 |
47% | PCU |
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— | 1993 |
0% | Folks! |
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— | 1992 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
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No Score Yet |
The Chef Show
2019-2020
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93% |
The Mandalorian
2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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65% |
The Orville
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
Pod Save America
2018
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94% |
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018
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No Score Yet |
Young Sheldon
2017
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No Score Yet |
CBS This Morning
2012
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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78% |
The Shannara Chronicles
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
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56% |
Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons
2016
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41% |
Chelsea
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Director's Chair
2014-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
Top Chef
2006
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No Score Yet |
Colbert Report
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
Meet the Press
1947-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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81% |
The Office
2005-2013
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
Independent Lens
1999
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67% |
Revolution
2012-2014
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No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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7% |
In Case of Emergency
2007
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91% |
Monk
2002-2009
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82% |
My Name Is Earl
2005-2009
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No Score Yet |
The King of Queens
1998-2007
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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92% |
The Sopranos
1999-2007
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79% |
Friends
1994-2004
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No Score Yet |
Tracey Takes On...
1996-1999
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100% |
The Larry Sanders Show
1992-1998
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89% |
Seinfeld
1989-1998
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71% |
The Movies
2019
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Quotes from Jon Favreau's Characters
Carl Casper: | "I'm fucking lost." |
Molly: | "That's a good place to start." |
Carl Casper: | "What if I just cook you something?" |
Johnny O: | I'm sweatin' like a Tijuana whore! |
Carl Casper: | It's up! It's up! The review's up! 'His dramatic weight gain can only be explained by the fact that he must be eating all the food sent back to the kitchen'. |
Mike: | The whole Judy Garland thing kinda turned me on. Does that make me some kind of fag? |
Trent: | No baby, you're money. |
Assistant: | Can I fix you a sandwich for your drive, sir? |
Batman / Bruce Wayne: | I'll take drive-thru. |
Happy Hogan: | Anything else, boss? |
Tony Stark: | I'm good, Hap. |
Pepper Potts: | No, I'll be just... another minute. |
Tony Stark: | I lost both the kids in the divorce! |
John Carter: | Who are you? |
Thark Bookie: | American. |
Thark Bookie: | Who are you, sir? |
Matai Shang: | Sir? Definitively the South. The Carolinas perhaps? No, Virginia. It's a lovely place. |
John Carter: | You know Virginia? |
Matai Shang: | Not as well as I should. |
Mike: | and Im supposed to be all happy cause she's wearing a napasck |
Mike: | And I'm supposed to be all happy cause she's wearing a knapsack. |
Franklin Nelson: | He paid in fluke. Fluke is a fish, Matt. Did you know that? Because I sure as hell didn't. |
Matt Murdock/Daredevil: | Well, Mr. Chang is a nice guy, he doesn't have a lot of money and he likes to go fishing on the weekends. |
Franklin Nelson: | Yeah, well I like to go salsa dancing on the weekends. But I don't shake my ass to pay my phone bill. You know what I'm saying? |
Reilly: | [Referring to Boog, who's hugging Beth] What's he doing? |
Reilly: | [As Boog and Beth hug each other] What's he doing? |
McSquizzy: | Is he not gonna maul her? |
Elliot: | No! She's his mom! She's taking us home. |
Reilly: | [as the wilds encounter a growling Mr. Weenie] It's a pet! He'll give us away! |
Reilly: | Hey, guys. Check it out. The largest carinvore in North America. The grizzly bear. |
Elliot: | And he's a good dancer. We're gonna be in a show. |
Boog: | [during the fight with the hunters] Gas mask. |
Reilly: | Got it. |
Reilly: | HA HA HA! |
Adam Levy: | "Don't poke the bear in the zoo." |
Adam Levy: | Don't poke the bear in the zoo. |
Mike: | Well how long are you guys gonna wait to call your babies? |
Trent: | Six Days [Simultaneous] |
Trent: | Six Days. [Simultaneous] |
Sue: | Six Days [Simultaneous] |
Sue: | Six Days. [Simultaneous] |
Mike: | Haven't you seen Boyz N The Hood? Now one of us is going to get shot. |
Mike: | Trent, the beautiful babies don't work the midnight to six shift on a Wednesday. This is like the skank shift. |