Celebrity Biographies
Jason Batemann
The child adopted by the Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie who achieved the milestone of becoming a replacement for Michael J. Fox in Hair on the Chest 2 had a future ahead of him in the world of acting that few dared to predict. Jason Bateman has succeeded with very varied roles.
Born on January 14, 1969 in Rye (New York), Jason Kent Bateman is the son of Victoria Bateman, an air hostess, and Kent Bateman, linked to the world of cinema who directed some titles, such as The Rogue and Grizzly . His father encouraged him to appear at a children’s casting, so he made his debut very soon, in Little House on the Prairie , where he played an orphan boy that the father, Charles, found on one of his trips, and that the leading family ends up with. adopting.
In the 1980s, Bateman became a youth idol in the United States, for his appearance in series such as Silver Spoons , although he also appeared in an episode of Fantastic Car .
His father, in his role as representative and producer, was the architect of his film debut with De pelo en pecho 2 , where he was the cousin of the character originally played by Michael J. Fox , also doomed to become a werewolf. The film was so small that Bateman stopped being called for film productions, and with few inglorious exceptions he had to make do with television appearances.
At the beginning of the 21st century, he took part in low-level ‘comedies’, such as The Sweetest Thing , Starsky and Hutch , Separated and Cuestión de pelotas .
Luckily, on television, Bateman achieved huge critical success with the down-and-out family sitcom Arrested Development , where he does a great job as the selfish and manipulative Michael Bluth. For this role he won the Golden Globe, and the series won a total of 6 Emmys, but despite so many awards, it did not quite find its audience and was canceled after the third season. Still, a film installment is being prepared, where Bateman will also be.
The series caught the attention of filmmaker Jason Reitman , who enlists him and his fictional television son, Michael Cera , for the film Juno , where Bateman achieves his best work, as Jennifer Garner ‘s immature husband . He reprises his command as George Clooney ‘s boss , in Up in the Air .
He’s also done decent work on a couple of thrillers, Hot Aces and Shadow of Power , and on the comedy Hancock , where he was an image consultant trying to make the anti-hero lead, played by Will Smith , popular . With Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman he played the failed family film Mr. Magorium and his magic shop From him.
His older sister, Justine Bateman , is also an actress, as is his wife, Amanda Anka, daughter of the popular singer Paul Anka , who in 2005 gave birth to Francesca Nora, their first daughter.
In recent times he has collaborated with Jennifer Aniston on two films, A Little Change , about artificial insemination, and How to Kill Your Boss , where he plays an employee who wants to kill his superior, Kevin Spacey .