Jason Bateman

Acting · 5.8 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 14, 1969
From: Rye, New York, USA

Biography

Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), as well as for his work in numerous comedy films. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. Bateman began his career as a child actor, appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991. Bateman's early film roles include Teen Wolf Too (1987) and Necessary Roughness (1991) before taking supporting roles in The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), and Up in the Air (2009). Bateman went on to star in various successful comedy films such as The Switch (2010), The Change-Up (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), Identity Thief (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Office Christmas Party (2016), and Game Night (2018). He expanded into dramatic roles with The Gift (2015), The Outsider (2020), Air (2023), and Carry-On (2024). He also voiced Nick Wilde in the Disney animated films Zootopia (2016) and its 2025 sequel. Bateman made his directorial debut with an episode of The Hogan Family, at the time setting the record for the youngest director in the Directors Guild of America. He has since directed and starred in the films Bad Words (2013) and The Family Fang (2015), and in the television series Ozark (2017-2022), The Outsider (2020), Black Rabbit (2025), and DTF St. Louis (2026). Bateman was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 for his direction on Ozark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Bateman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

76 films

Zootopia 2

20257.7

Zootopia

20167.8

Carry-On

20246.9

Air

20237.3

Tropic Thunder

20086.7

Game Night

20186.8

Paul

20116.7

The Break-Up

20065.9

Horrible Bosses

20116.6

Smokin' Aces

20066.5

Central Intelligence

20166.4

Horrible Bosses 2

20146.2

Arthur and the Invisibles

20066.4

Juno

20077.1

The Change-Up

20116.2

Hancock

20086.4

Up in the Air

20096.9

The Gift

20156.7

Once Upon a Studio

20238.3

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

20046.4

The Kingdom

20076.7

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

20086.5

Identity Thief

20135.9

Starsky & Hutch

20045.8

State of Play

20096.8

The Switch

20106.2

Couples Retreat

20095.6

The Invention of Lying

20096.2

This Is Where I Leave You

20146.6

Office Christmas Party

20165.7

Disneyland 60: The Wonderful World of Disney

20167.7

Zootopia 3

2026

The Sweetest Thing

20025.6

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

20076.3

Disconnect

20137.1

Thunder Force

20215.5

Hit & Run

20125.7

Bad Words

20136.4

Teen Wolf Too

19874.2

Extract

20095.9

The Ex

20065.3

The Family Fang

20165.8

Fool's Paradise

20234.6

Bates Motel

19874.6

The Longest Week

20145.1

Necessary Roughness

19915.5

The Promotion

20085.3

A LEGO Brickumentary

20145.9

A Farewell to Ozark

20226.7

Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart

19956.3

Pump

20147.4

Question & Answer

20208.0

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

20217.5

Sol Goode

20034.2

This Can't Be Love

19945.9

Love Stinks

19996.5

The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins

19845.4

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

20164.0

Lennon or McCartney

20145.3

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

20093.0

Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery

20226.0

One Way Out

20025.7

How Can I Tell If I'm Really in Love?

19874.3

The Arrested Development Documentary Project

20135.7

The Thanksgiving Promise

19866.0

Significant Other

2026

Crossing the Mob

19885.7

Mansome

20124.9

A Taste for Killing

19925.4

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

19945.4

Can You Feel Me Dancing?

19866.6

Moving Target

19886.1

Breaking the Rules

19925.3

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

20148.4

The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano

1989

This Side of the Truth, A Truly 'Honest' Making of The Invention of Lying

20109.3