- Born
- Birth nameAlan Douglas Ruck
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Alan Ruck was born on July 1, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, and has made over 100 appearances in films and television, and on stage. He is best known for his role as the friend of Matthew Broderick and hopeless hypochondriac Cameron Frye, in John Hughes's Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
During the 1980s he appeared in films such as Class (1983) with Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy and Three for the Road (1987) with Charlie Sheen. The 1990s included Young Guns II (1990) with Emilio Estevez and Lou Diamond Phillips, Star Trek: Generations (1994), Speed (1994) with Keanu Reeves and Twister (1996) (the latter two films are directed by Jan de Bont).
Ruck's television appearances include Tales from the Crypt (1989) opposite Lou Diamond Philips, Mad About You (1992) with Helen Hunt (his co-star in Twister), and Spin City (1996) with Michael J. Fox.
Ruck made an appearance in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998) which reunited him with his Twister co-star Cary Elwes.
- IMDb mini biography by: Matt Lee-Williams
- SpousesMireille Enos(January 4, 2008 - present) (2 children)Claudia Stefany(June 22, 1984 - 2005) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenSam RuckVesper Vivianne RuckLarkin Zouey Ruck
- RelativesVeronique Enos(Sibling)Jongiorgi Enos(Sibling)
- Was 29-years-old when he appeared in the role of Cameron Frye, a high school student, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
- Nearly died of septicemia in 2002.
- Has played Matthew Broderick's best friend in the original Broadway production of "Biloxi Blues", a relationship they repeated in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
- Received his Bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Illinois.
- In 2005, he began playing Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of "The Producers". The role was played in the show's initial line-up and in The Producers (2005) by Matthew Broderick. Broderick was the titular character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which co-starred Ruck as Ferris' best friend.
- I think multi-camera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.
- People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller," and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.
- When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.
- I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
- I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.
- Succession (2018) - $3,250,000 /episode season 3
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