Biography

J.P. Manoux grew up in Santa Barbara, California, the oldest of seven. He was involved in children's theater and took tap dance lessons before attending Thacher School and Northwestern University. In Evanston, he improvised, wrote, and directed the nation's longest-running college comedy, The Mee-Ow Show, following in the footsteps of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall, and his then roommate Ana Gasteyer. Manoux received the Outstanding Student Award from NU's School of Speech in 1991.

J.P. moved to Hollywood and honed his comedy chops at L.A. Theatresports, ACME Comedy Theater, the Groundlings School, and I.O. West. Legit stage productions garnered critical accolades, culminating in 1999 with L.A. Ovation and Backstage West Garland Awards recognizing his work in the world premiere stage musical Reefer Madness.

Over the next few years, he appeared in dozens of sitcoms and commercials, including memorable campaigns for Got Milk? and Fruit of the Loom. He was a series regular on ABC's 2001 prime-time variety experiment The Wayne Brady Show (2001), and became a celebrity in the world of children's television thanks to his dual role as Mr. Hackett and Curtis the Caveman on the Disney Channel series Phil of the Future (2004). During this period, he also voiced the lead role of Kuzco in Disney's animated series The Emperor's New School (2006). In 2006, J.P. joined the ensemble of ER, recurring as sardonic surgical resident Dr. Dustin Crenshaw.

Opportunities to act and direct in Canada led Manoux north of the border. Over the next several years, Toronto-based productions of Disney's sci-fi/adventure series Aaron Stone (2009) and CTV's Spun Out (2014) employed his talents both in front of and behind the camera. He returned to Hollywood in 2016 with a recurring role in the Amazon series Good Girls Revolt. Since then, he has played characters in VEEP, The Librarians, The Magicians, Charmed, Shameless, Grey's Anatomy, 9-1-1: Lone Star, CSI: Vegas, White House Plumbers, as well as the feature films Nobody and Babylon. He currently recurs as the Arena Announcer in the Netflix basketball comedy series Running Point.

Manoux has appeared in over 100 different television series, 90 commercials, and 50 films. He has provided voice and motion-capture performance for 13 video games, competed on six TV game shows, and read two original pieces for All Things Condsidered on National Public Radio. He is a 2018 Moth StorySLAM winner (Los Angeles) who has co-written one play, and anonymously authored one IMDb biography.

His vanity license plate reads IMDB ME.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous

Played characters known for looking like Moby on both How I Met Your Mother (2005) and Community (2009).

Appeared as a contestant on several game shows including teen week of Wheel of Fortune (1983), Family Feud (1976), and Jeopardy! (1984).

Manoux appeared in Fruit of the Loom commercials playing "Green Grapes" (2002-09).

His maternal great-great-uncle was early film and animation producer Amadee J. Van Beuren (his great-grandfather's brother). Another maternal great-grandfather, Alejandro Berea Rodrigo, was a Spanish consul, and his great-great-grandfather was conductor and instrumentalist, Canuto José Berea Rodríguez. His father's family, surnamed Bujuklian, is Armenian. His mother is of Galician Spanish and French-Irish descent.