February 16th, 2009 artmaster
Rashida Jones (Zooey) has quickly established herself as one of Hollywood’s bright young stars.
Jones can next be seen in the upcoming, highly anticipated untitled NBC comedy co-starring Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari. Previously, she portrayed the ambitious saleswoman Karen Filippelli in NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy “The Office” opposite Steve Carell.
Jones was most recently seen starring as Kate on “Unhitched,” the half-hour comedy for FOX from the Farrelly brothers. She also recently completed a starring role in the independent feature “Life in Flight,” set for release later this year. Jones previously co-starred in “Little Black Book” opposite Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates and Brittany Murphy. Other feature credits include “Now You Know,” “Meeting Mr. Johnson,” “East of A” and “Myth of America.”
Jones starred on FOX’s “Boston Public” as Louisa Fenn and in TNT’s “Wanted” as Detective Carla Merced. Her other TV credits include “Freaks and Geeks,” “If These Walls Could Talk 2,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “Second Opinion” and the British television series “NY-LON.” Jones was also a weekly correspondent on the talk show “Vibe TV.”
While attending Harvard University, Jones appeared in several plays, including “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” “Dancing at Lughnasa,” “The Odd Couple: The Female Version” and “H.M.S. Pinafore.” She was also in “Pitching to the Star” at the Lee Strasburg Theatre.
A graduate of Harvard University, Jones currently resides in Los Angeles.
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February 16th, 2009 artmaster
Jason Segel (Sydney Fife) has the ability to consistently create memorable and hilarious characters, as he demonstrated in Judd Apatow’s hit comedy “Knocked Up,” as well as the Apatow-produced “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” which was written by Segel and based on his original idea. The film went on to make over $100 million worldwide and set Segel apart from most young Hollywood actors.
In 1999, Segel portrayed Nick on “Freaks and Geeks,” Apatow’s Emmy- nominated television series for NBC. Segel played a lanky, fun-loving freak dreaming of stardom as a rock-and-roll drummer, like his idol, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. In 2000, he had a recurring role as Eric on “Undeclared,” the Fox series about college freshmen, which was named one of Time magazine’s “Ten Best Shows of 2001.”
Currently, Segel stars as Marshall, opposite Alyson Hannigan, Josh Radnor and Neil Patrick Harris, in the third season of the hit CBS comedy series “How I Met Your Mother,” the story of a young man’s struggle to find his true love. This series was also touted by Time magazine, hitting the list at No. 8 on the “Ten Best Shows of 2005.”
Previous feature credits include “Slackers,” “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” “SLC Punk,” “Can’t Hardly Wait” and “Dead Man on Campus.”
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Segel continues to reside there.
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February 16th, 2009 artmaster
Paul Rudd (Peter Klaven) recently starred in David Wain’s “Role Models” opposite Seann William Scott. “Role Models” has grossed over $80 million worldwide and was nominated as Best Comedy by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the St. Louis Film Critics Group. Rudd also served as a writer on the film.
Rudd currently lends his voice to the new 3D animated feature “Monsters vs. Aliens,” which co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Stephen Colbert, Rainn Wilson and Kiefer Sutherland.
Rudd starred in Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up” opposite Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann. “Knocked Up” grossed over $300 million worldwide and won the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Movie Comedy. It was also nominated for a 2008 Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Movie and was named as one of AFI’s 2008 Top Ten Films of the Year.
Rudd’s other film credits include “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “The 40 Year-Old-Virgin,” “Anchorman,” “The Ten,” for which he also served as a producer, “Night at the Museum,” “Diggers,” “The Cider House Rules,” “The Object of My Affection,” “Wet Hot American Summer,” “The Chateau,” “Clueless” and “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” among others.
On stage, Rudd starred in Richard Greenberg’s “Three Days of Rain” opposite Julia Roberts and Bradley Cooper. He also starred in Neil LaBute’s “Bash” in both New York and Los Angeles, as well as LaBute’s “The Shape of Things” in London and New York. After successful runs on both the London and New York stage, LaBute brought “The Shape of Things” to the big screen.
Rudd made his West End debut in the London production of Robin Phillips’ “Long Day’s Journey into Night” opposite Jessica Lange. Other stage credits include Nicholas Hynter’s “Twelfth Night” at Lincoln Center Theater and Alfred Uhry’s Tony Award-winning play “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.”
On television, Rudd guest starred on NBC’s “Friends” as Phoebe’s (Lisa Kudrow) husband, Mike Hannigan, for the final two seasons.
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