Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian television and film actor, as well as a writer, born on June 7, 1988 in Brampton, Ontario. He is the middle child of Linda and Luigi Cera and studied at Conestoga Public School and then Heart Lake Secondary School. He left it in the ninth grade and continued high school through correspondence. Cera’s first professional acting job was appearing in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial.

Michael Cera has worked on several television series and films, such as Rolie Polie Olie, La Femme Nikita, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002, the animated series The Berenstain Bears, the teen noir drama Veronica Mars, and Frequency. Michael Cera also parodied Aleksey Vayner’s “Impossible is Nothing” video resume on YouTube with his own video, “Impossible is the Opposite of Possible.” Cera is also partnered with his friend Clark Duke in a number of comedy videos released on their website, after which they signed a deal with CBS to produce more comedy segments for a new series titled Clark and Michael. The two of them are also in a band known as The Long Goodbye. Cera is also known for playing the bright and altruistic George Michael Bluth in the Fox comedy series Arrested Development. Upon the show’s cancellation, he moved on to star in the surreal humor short film Darling Darling in 2005. He was then cast opposite Jonah Hill in the Seth Rogen film Superbad in 2007. That year, he rose to fame portraying the character Paulie Bleeker in the critically acclaimed film Juno. There, he starred opposite Ellen Page and his Arrested Development co-star Jason Bateman. For his performance, he won Breakthrough Artist in the Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007. Cera will also appear as one of the lead characters in 2008’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a comedy with Kat Dennings and Alexis Dziena.

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