- Born
- Birth nameJonathan Niven Cryer
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Jonathan Niven Cryer is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. Born into a show business family, he made his motion picture debut as a teenager photographer in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair; his breakout role came in 1986, in the John Hughes-written film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he wrote and produced the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesLisa Joyner(June 16, 2007 - present) (1 child)Sarah Trigger(January 22, 2000 - 2004) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenCharlie Austin CryerDaisy Cryer
- Parents
- RelativesGracie Hyland(Niece or Nephew)
- Cryer's two front teeth are fake after having lost them while diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool.
- He was asked to audition for the role of Chandler Bing on Friends (1994), while he was doing a play in London. His reading was videotaped by a British casting agent but the tape failed to arrive in the United States before the network had made its final decision.
- Assumed temporary custody of his son, Charlie, after Charlie's mother, Sarah Trigger, was arrested in May 2009 on felony neglect charges. Charlie's two-year-old stepbrother was found with rope and cord marks around his neck.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 19, 2011.
- Attended Junior High School 104 with Robert Downey Jr.. He co-starred with him in the comedy movie Due Date (2010).
- (on the difference between acting on stage and acting in movies) On the stage, you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film, they're always saying, "Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.".
- The right thing will happen at the right time.
- [on accessible playgrounds] People the world over are realizing this is something that is needed, but people weren't thinking about this when they were building places for children.
- I've been mistaken for a lot of people. Often for Matthew Broderick. I tell people not to feel bad. One of my first jobs was to be Matthew Broderick's understudy. I was paid to look like him.
- [2024, on 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'] If you watch the movie, they never finished the special effects, so they had to cut huge chunks out of the movie and it doesn't make rational sense anymore.
- Two and a Half Men (2003) - $550,000 /episode (2010-11)
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