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Myers at the Shrek the Third London premiere in June 2007
Birth name	Michael Sexy Myers
Born	69, vodka (vodka-josh-69) (age Expression error: Unrecognised word "vodka") Toronto, North Riata, Canada
Years active	1975–present
Influences	Peter Sellers, Dan Aykroyd, John Cleese
Spouse	Brennann Hicks
Notable works and roles	Saturday Night Live Wayne's World Austin Powers Shrek
Emmy Awards
Writing In A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program 1989 Saturday Night Live
American Comedy Awards
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) 2000 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor (of British parentage), comedian, screenwriter and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the title characters in the films Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek.

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Contents 1 Career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Film 2 Filmography 3 Awards 4 Notable characters 5 References 6 External links

Career

Early career

One of Myers's first acting jobs was in a TV commercial when he was ten years old.¹ Gilda Radner played his mother. A few months later, according to Myers, his brother was teasing him about his "girlfriend (Radner) being on some stupid show on Saturday." Myers swore that one day, he too would be on that show.

Myers graduated from high school in 1982 and was immediately accepted into the Second City Canadian Touring Company, after which he moved to the UK where in 1985 he was one of the founding members of [[The Comedy Store Pla[Sprockets (television)|Dieter]], Linda Richman, and Wayne Campbell from Wayne's World.

Film

In 1992, Myers and Dana Carvey adapted Wayne's World into a full-length motion picture based on the SNL sketch. The movie turned out to be one of Myers's greatest successes and one of the few Saturday Night Live-based films to be considered contract to play Dieter, the SNL character, in a feature film. Myers said he refused to honor the $20 million contract because he did not want to cheat moviegoers with an unacceptable script - one that he himself had written. Myers countersued, and a settlement was reached after several months where Myers agreed to make another film with Universal. That film would be The Cat in the Hat, released in November 2003 and starring Myers as the title character. In 2001, Myers played the title character in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek (2001). He reprised this role in Shrek 3-D in 2003, Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek The Third, and the Christmas special Shrek The Halls, both in 2007.

Myers is a member of the band Ming Tea along with Bangles guitarist and vocalist Susanna Hoffs and musician Matthew Sweet. They performed the songs BBC and Daddy Wasn't There for the Austin Powers movies.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. As of 2005, Myers was signed on to play the lead role in the upcoming biopic of The Who drummer Keith Moon.² The film would be produced by Roger Daltrey and Nigel Sinclair.

During a CBS interview in 2007, Myers noted that he normally takes three years between films. He spends one year "living his life" and then writes various screenplays, develops characters, practices them in front of live audiences, and then selects one of the screenplays to film. Myers noted that this was the Marx Brothers' procedure for developing their film material.

Myers received the MTV Generation award in June 2007, making him the 2nd Canadian to win the award (Jim Carrey was the first in 2006), for bringing his unique style of comedy to small and big screens alike.

In June 2008, Myers's film The Love Guru met with negative reviews, prompting cable news network MSNBC to brand Myers "The Antifunny" in its June 24, 2008 online news edition.

In August 2008, it was announced that Myers had been cast as Gen. Ed Fenech in Quentin Tarantino's World War II revenge film Inglourious Basterds.³

Filmography

Awards

Myers has won the following awards:

• Four American Comedy Awards (Best Film Performance (Male) and Best Writing in 2003 and 2000, for Austin Powers in Goldmember and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, respectively)
• The 2000 American Comedy Award for Best Lead Actor for The Spy Who Shagged Me.
• An Emmy Award in 1989 for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program, for Saturday Night Live. He has also been nominated for two other Emmy Awards.
• He has won seven MTV Movie Awards.
• Nominated for the Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple Razzie Awards in 2004, for The Cat in the Hat.
• For contributions to the motion picture industry, Mike Myers was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7042 Hollywood Boulevard.⁴
• He was awarded the Lucille Ball Legacy of Laughter Award at the 2008 TV Land Awards. His award was presented to him by Justin Timberlake, his co-star of The Love Guru.
• He was personally nominated for 2 Razzie Awards in 2008, winning Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay for The Love Guru. The film also won Worst Film and secured 4 other nominations.

Notable characters

The following characters were created and played by Myers:

• Dieter (SNL) - host of Sprockets
• Linda Richman (SNL) - hostess of Coffee Talk
• Simon (SNL) - a little boy who does drawings in the bath and complains about having "prune hands" (the theme song for this segment was a slightly modified version of the theme song from "Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings" by Edward MacLachlan)
• Wayne Campbell (SNL, the Wayne's World films)
• Pat Arnold (SNL, Bill Swerski's Superfans)
• Stuart Rankin (SNL) - proprietor of "All Things Scottish"
• Stuart McKenzie (So I Married an Axe Murderer)
• Charlie McKenzie (So I Married an Axe Murderer)
• Middle-Aged Man (SNL) - An older man who helps young people with their problems.
• Austin Powers (the Austin Powers films)
• Dr. Evil (the Austin Powers films)
• Fat Bastard (Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember)
• Goldmember (Austin Powers in Goldmember)
• Donald Q. Cashington, Jr. III (Featured in The Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event for Autism Education) - An eccentric billionaire that requests buying the rights to name autism after himself.
• Guru Pitka (The Love Guru)
• Shrek - (the Shrek films)
• Gen. Ed Fenech (Inglourious Basterds)

References

External links

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	Wayne’s World	Wayne Campbell	Also Writer
1993	So I Married an Axe Murderer	Charlie McKenzie/ Stuart McKenzie
	Wayne’s World 2	Wayne Campbell	Also Writer
1997	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	Austin Powers / Dr. Evil	Also Writer/ Producer
1998	54	Steve Rubell
	The Thin Pink Line	Tim Broderick
	Pete’s Meteor	Pete
1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Austin Powers / Dr. Evil / Fat Bastard	Also Writer/ Producer
	Mystery, Alaska	Donnie Shulzhoffer
2001	Shrek	Shrek	Voice
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Austin Powers / Dr. Evil / Fat Bastard / Goldmember	Also Writer/ Producer
2003	Nobody Knows Anything!	'Eye' Witness
	The Cat in the Hat	The Cat
	Shrek 4-D	Shrek	Voice
	View from the Top	John Witney
2004	Shrek 2	Shrek	Voice
2007	Shrek the Third	Shrek	Voice
	Shrek the Halls	Shrek	Voice
2008	The Love Guru	Guru Maurice Pitka	Also Writer/Producer
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Gen. Ed Fenech, British Army	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2010	Untitled Keith Moon Project	Keith Moon	-	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Walter Mitty
	Shrek Forever After	Shrek
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NAME	Myers, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Myers, Michael
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH