Seth Rogen

Born on April 15, 1982, in Vancouver (Canada), Seth Rogen comes from a Jewish family of social workers. He attended Talmud Torah School and Point Gray High School, and although he never graduated, he was always the ‘funny’ of the class, his classmates gave him a lot of play to invent jokes, and he began his career as a comedian when he was just a teenager. At the age of 13, he took a course for comedians and shot an advertisement. At 16 he placed second in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest.

He debuted on the screen with the series Freaks and Geeks , where he played the cynical Ken. Although the series – which also featured the then-unknown James Franco – was canceled before the end of the first season, one of the producers, Judd Apatow , was very impressed by his improvisational skills, and has since considered him one of the comedians. to which he regularly resorts in his films. He immediately signed him on for his second series, Undeclared , where Rogen first wrote scripts and then stepped in as an actor. On the other hand, Rogen wrote scripts for Sacha Baron Cohen , the actor known for Borat , for his television showDa Ali G Show .

When Apatow made his filmmaking debut with 40 Virgin , he remembered Rogen, whom he cast as a supporting cast. Apatow was especially interested in his actors not sticking to the script, but improvising, to give the footage freshness; they had to look like buddies joking and telling jokes. After each take, Apatow continues recording, hoping that his performers will continue to behave as if they were his characters. And it turned out that Rogen was one of the best come up with ‘jokes’ on the fly, which is why he became an indispensable ally ever since.

At the end of filming, Apatow was convinced that the young screenwriter and actor could give more of himself, and he had a meeting with him to discuss future projects. Although Rogen apparently only told him about various science fiction movies in which he was interested, Apatow told him that he saw more possibilities for him in the realm of comedy based on real, everyday situations. That’s how he was offered the lead role in An Embarrassing Mess , where Rogen was pretty good at playing a filthy jobless guy struggling to put what seems like an impossible relationship on track with the up-and-coming broadcast journalist ( Katherine Heigl ) he’s dumped . pregnant.

Apatow also produced a comedy from a script co-written by Rogen, Superbad , for which he had written a character he thought he could play himself, and based on his own personal experiences in high school. But he was a little too old to be believable as a teenager, so an actor reminiscent of him was sought, younger, and he ended up recruiting Jonah Hill , even though he is only two years younger. Rogen was relegated to a supporting role.

In addition to reuniting with James Franco on the hilarious Super Smoked , and being recruited again by Apatow when the latter directed Make Me Laugh , Rogen had the opportunity to work with one of the directors he considers one of his idols, Kevin Smith , on the failed Shall we make a porn? , where he was a boy with financial problems who tries to get ahead shooting pornography with his best friend.

Seth Rogen was very interested in promoting a film based on an old superhero of which he considers himself a great fan, The Green Hornet, a millionaire who fought crime as a masked man with the help of his oriental servant Kato. The imaginative French filmmaker Michel Gondry ended up being the director of The Green Hornet , where Rogen, in addition to acting as a co-writer, ended up becoming the protagonist.

In 2010 Rogen proposed to Laura Miller, his girlfriend since before he became a celebrity. It is considered a new addition to the famous Frat Pack, a term coined by the USA Today newspaper in a 2004 article. Frat Pack literally means “the group of brotherhood”, in a play on words that refers to the mythical Rat Pack, by Frank Sinatra and company.

They are supposed to be part of the Frat Pack – an expression that was successful in the Yankee media – a series of comedians who are currently successful and often work together, and repeatedly with the same directors. Originally part of the gang were Ben Stiller , Jack Black , Will Ferrell , Steve Carell , etc., although younger actors have subsequently been added. When asked if he’s part of it, Rogen states that he’s not sure.