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Jason Michael Lee (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, singer, photographer, and former professional skateboarder, who is known for playing Earl Hickey in the television comedy series My Name Is Earl, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy TV series in 2005 and 2006 by The Golden Globes, and Dwight Hendricks in Memphis Beat (2010–2011).

Jason Lee
Lee at the Away and Back premiere in 2015
Born	Jason Michael Lee (1970-04-25) April 25, 1970 (age 52) Santa Ana, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor comedian filmmaker singer photographer skateboarder
Years active	1980s–present
Spouse(s)	Carmen Llywelyn ​ ​ (m. 1995; div. 2001)​ Ceren Alkaç ​ (m. 2008)​
Partner	Beth Riesgraf (2001–2007)
Sports career
Country	United States
Sport	Skateboarding
Turned pro	1988
Retired	1996

He is also known for his roles in Kevin Smith films such as Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Clerks II, and Cop Out. Lee won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Chasing Amy. He also portrayed David Seville in the live-action/CGI Alvin and the Chipmunks film series. His other notable film roles include starring in Enemy of the State, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Stealing Harvard, A Guy Thing and The Ballad of Jack and Rose. His voice acting credits include Syndrome in The Incredibles, Bones in Monster House and the title character in Underdog.

A former professional skateboarder, Lee is the co-founder and co-owner of Stereo Skateboards, founding the company in 1992 with fellow skateboarder Chris "Dune" Pastras.[1] Since 1992, Stereo manufactures and distributes skateboard decks, equipment and apparel, as well as producing skate videos.[1]

Early life

Lee was born in Santa Ana, California, on April 25, 1970.[2] His father, Greg Lee, was a car dealership manager and his mother, Carol Lee, a homemaker.[3][4] He has an older brother, James (b. 1968). Lee was raised in Huntington Beach and attended Ocean View High School.[5] A hyperactive and energetic child, Lee took up skateboarding after his mother bought him a skateboard with the hope that he would use it to burn off excessive energy.^{[citation needed]} Hooked on the art of skateboarding, Lee spent the majority of his time perfecting his craft, that would eventually lead to him dropping out of Ocean View High School so he could turn pro.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Skateboarding

Lee was a professional skateboarder in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1992, he founded Stereo Sound Agency, known as Stereo Skateboards, with fellow skater Chris "Dune" Pastras. In 2003, after it had been defunct for a few years, the pair successfully revived the company.[6][7] As of October 2013, Lee and Pastras remain on the professional "Classics" team roster.[8]

Lee was featured in the skateboarding promotional video, Video Days, filmed for the skateboarding company Blind Skateboards.[9] In 2004, Lee's skateboarding was featured in Way Out East!, a film produced by Stereo Skateboards.[10][11]

In August 2012, Lee is also featured in a brief video on the skateboard website The Berrics entitled "Jason Lee decided to come to the park."[12]

In August 2012, Lee participated in the ninth annual Stand-Up for Skateparks Event, which he chaired with Tony Hawk.[13] The event is held annually by the Tony Hawk Charitable Foundation and seeks to "help create free, quality public skateparks for youth in low-income communities."[14]

In October that same year, a video was released by the Keep A Breast Foundation, featuring various skateboarding identities, including Lee, together with Pastras. The video, contributing to the Foundation's aim to prevent and raise awareness of breast cancer, promotes the "I Love Boobies" bracelet. It also features Clint Peterson (Stereo) and Giovanni Reda (WESC), who are both teammates of Lee.[15]

Lee later worked with Tony Hawk when he lent his voice and likeness to Tony Hawk's Project 8 to become a playable character.[16] Lee then voiced Coach Frank, a character created during the development of Stereo, in Skate 3.[17][18]

Professional skateboarder and owner of the Girl and Lakai Limited Footwear skateboard brands Mike Carroll[19] has cited Lee as one of his skating influences.[20]

Lee has been particularly cited for his 360 flips, which even the trick's inventor, Rodney Mullen, credits him with stylizing and popularizing.[21][22][23][24][25]

Acting

After taking some minor acting roles in 1992–1994 (including the music video for the Sonic Youth single "100%", a small part in Mi Vida Loca, and a bit part as a dance instructor on Chance and Things), Lee left professional skateboarding for a full-time acting career.[26] His first major movie role was in Kevin Smith's Mallrats, which became a cult hit.[26][27] This started a friendship that subsequently led to appearances in many of Smith's films, including Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, Cop Out, and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Lee won an Independent Spirit Award for his role in Chasing Amy as Banky Edwards.

Lee graduated to leading man roles in Heartbreakers, Stealing Harvard, and A Guy Thing.[28][29][30] He has had supporting roles in Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Dreamcatcher, Big Trouble, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Mumford, as well as a minor role in Enemy of the State. Lee also voiced Syndrome in The Incredibles and Jack-Jack Attack. He reprised the role as a "robot copy" of Syndrome in Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.[31] Lee is also the voice of Underdog in Underdog and portrays Dave Seville in the live action/CGI films starring Alvin and the Chipmunks.[32]

In 2005, Lee was offered the lead role in My Name Is Earl.[33] According to interviews on the first-season DVD, he passed on the series twice before finally agreeing to read for the pilot. In the series, he stars as Earl Hickey. Lee received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2006 and 2007, as well as a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006.[34][35][36] NBC cancelled My Name is Earl after four seasons.[37]

On June 22, 2010, Memphis Beat premiered. In the series, Lee starred with Alfre Woodard[38] and portrayed Dwight Hendricks.[38] In October 2011, it was announced the series was not renewed for a third season. He guest-starred in 2010 and 2013 episodes of Raising Hope, created by My Name is Earl creator and producer Greg Garcia.[39][40][41]

As of December 2011, Lee appeared in Up All Night,[42] but after its second season, it was officially cancelled on May 9, 2013. In June 2013, The Road Chip, a fourth installment of the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise, was announced by 20th Century Fox; its release date was December 18, 2015.[43]

Lee is in the Amazon Studios 49-minute pilot of Cocked, where he plays the character of Grady Paxson, one of three men who run a family company, manufacturing guns. The show premiered on January 15, 2015, and also stars Brian Dennehy, Diora Baird, Dreama Walker, and Sam Trammell.[44] On January 25, 2015, The Hallmark Channel premiered Away & Back, a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Lee, Maggie Elizabeth Jones and Minka Kelly.[45]

Photography

Lee began shooting photos regularly in the early 2000s, and became interested in instant photography.[46] He released his first photo book through Refueled Magazine. It consists of "184 pages of Polaroid & Fuji Instant Film photographs from 2006-2016", printed in an edition of 500 copies.[47] In 2018 he published, A Plain View, a photo book consisting of color 4×5 photographs from his exploration of rural and urban America.[48] From June to December 2019, his photographs of Oklahoma were exhibited in exhibit OK: Jason Lee Photographs in Philbrook Museum of Art.[49] These works are scheduled to be released as the book OK in 2022.[50] In December 2020, British publishing house Stanley/Barker released In the Gold Dust Rush, consisting of black and white photographs of rural America.[51] In 2021, Lee released Galveston, commissioned by the Galveston Historical Foundation.[50] He is inspired by work of New Topographics movement, notably by Henry Wessell. He photographs on film.[52]

Personal life

Lee married actress and photographer Carmen Llywelyn in 1995. They divorced in 2001. Llywelyn later cited Lee's commitment to Scientology as the principal cause for their separation.[53] Llywelyn wrote that their relationship collapsed when she revealed to her talent manager and fellow Scientologist, Gay Ribisi (mother of actor Giovanni Ribisi), that she had read A Piece of Blue Sky, an anti-Scientology book. Two days after her conversation with Ribisi, Llywelyn received a one-paragraph "disconnection letter" from Lee and was labeled a Suppressive Person.[54][55]

Following his divorce from Llywelyn, Lee became engaged to actress Beth Riesgraf. Together, they have a son, Pilot Inspektor. Lee states their son's name was inspired by "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot." by rock band Grandaddy.[56]

Lee married Turkish model Ceren Alkaç in California in July 2008. A month later, Alkaç gave birth to a daughter named Casper.[56][57][58] The couple had their second child, a son named Sonny, in 2012.[59] Their third child, a daughter named Alberta 'Birdy' Lee, was born in 2017.[60] As of 2016, Lee no longer practices Scientology.[61][62] Lee currently resides in Denton, Texas with his family. He is a 1/5th co-owner of the restaurant Barley and Board.[61][63]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Video Days	Himself	Blind Skateboards
1993	A Visual Sound	Himself	Stereo Skateboards
1993	Mi Vida Loca	Teenage Drug Customer
1994	Chance and Things	Dance Instructor on the Television
1995	Mallrats	Brodie Bruce
1996	Drawing Flies	Donner
1996	Tincan Folklore	Himself	Stereo Skateboards
1997	Chasing Amy	Banky Edwards	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
	A Better Place	Dennis Pepper
1998	Kissing a Fool	Jay Murphy
	American Cuisine	Loren Collins
	Enemy of the State	Daniel Zavitz
1999	Dogma	Azrael
	Mumford	Skip Skipperton
2000	Almost Famous	Jeff Bebe	Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Drama/Romance Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2001	Heartbreakers	Jack Withrowe
	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Brodie Bruce / Banky Edwards
	Vanilla Sky	Brian Shelby
2002	Big Trouble	Puggy
	Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator	Himself	Documentary
	Stealing Harvard	John Plummer
2003	A Guy Thing	Paul Morse
	Dreamcatcher	Beaver Clarendon
	I Love Your Work	Larry Hortense
2004	Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party	Himself	Documentary
	Jersey Girl	PR Exec #1
	The Incredibles	Buddy Pine / Syndrome (voice)
2005	Jack-Jack Attack		Short film
	The Ballad of Jack and Rose	Gray
	Drop Dead Sexy	Frank
2006	Clerks II	Lance Dowds
	Rising Son: The Legend of Christian Hosoi	Himself	Documentary
	Monster House	Bones (voice)
2007	Underdog	Shoeshine / Underdog (voice)
	The Man Who Souled the World	Himself	Documentary
	Alvin and the Chipmunks	David "Dave" Seville
2009	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
2010	Cop Out	Roy
2011	Noah's Ark: The New Beginning	Japheth (voice)
	The Other Side	Mortimer Flybait (voice)
	Columbus Circle	Charlie
	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked	David "Dave" Seville
2014	Behaving Badly	Father Krumins
	Tell	Ray
2015	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip	David "Dave" Seville	Nominated – Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
2017	Growing Up Smith	Butch Brunner
2019	Jay and Silent Bob Reboot	Brodie Bruce
2020	We Bare Bears: The Movie	Charlie (voice)
TBA	Diamond	Billy Curtis	Also producer and writer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Phillip Messenger	Television film
2005–2009	My Name Is Earl	Earl Hickey	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2006–2007) Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2005–2006) Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2006–2007) Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor – Comedy (2006)
2006, 2016	American Dad!	Officer Bays / Sam (voice)	2 episodes
2010–2011	Memphis Beat	Dwight Hendricks	20 episodes
2011–2012	Up All Night	Kevin	7 episodes
2010–2013	Raising Hope	Smokey Floyd	3 episodes
2013	Men at Work	Donnie	Episode: "Tyler the Pioneer"
2015	Cocked	Grady Paxson	Television film
2015	Away and Back	Jack Peterson	Television film
2015–2019	We Bare Bears	Charlie (voice)	22 episodes
2021	The Harper House	Freddie Harper (voice)	10 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	The Incredibles	Buddy Pine / Syndrome
2006	Tony Hawk's Project 8	Himself	Also motion-capture
2007	Alvin and the Chipmunks	David "Dave" Seville
2010	Skate 3	Coach Frank
2013	Disney Infinity	Buddy Pine / Syndrome
2015	Disney Infinity 3.0
2018	Lego The Incredibles

References

External links

• Jason Lee at IMDb

На других языках

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[es] Jason Lee

Jason Michael Lee (Orange, California; 25 de abril de 1970) es un actor, skater profesional, y productor estadounidense. Es mayormente conocido por su papel protagonista en la serie cómica My Name is Earl haciendo de Earl Hickey, en las películas de Alvin y las Ardillas tomando el rol de David Seville y por sus trabajos con el director Kevin Smith.[1] Lee también es cofundador de Stereo Skateboards.

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[ru] Ли, Джейсон (актёр)

Джейсон Майкл Ли (англ. Jason Michael Lee; род. 25 апреля 1970, Ориндж) — американский актёр, фотограф и бывший профессиональный скейтбордист, сыгравший Эрла Хикки в комедийном телесериале «Меня зовут Эрл», за который он был номинирован на «Золотой глобус» в 2005 и 2006 годах как лучший актер в музыкальном или комедийном телесериале, и Дуайта Хендрикса в «Мемфис Бит» (2010—2011).

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