Jason Bateman

Acting · 5.2 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

Game Night

20186.8

Tropic Thunder

20086.7

Paul

20116.7

Central Intelligence

20166.4

The Break-Up

20065.9

Horrible Bosses 2

20146.2

Horrible Bosses

20116.6

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

20086.5

Juno

20077.1

The Kingdom

20076.7

Once Upon a Studio

20238.3

Smokin' Aces

20066.5

The Gift

20156.7

Hancock

20086.4

Arthur and the Invisibles

20066.4

The Change-Up

20116.2

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

20046.4

Up in the Air

20096.9

Starsky & Hutch

20045.8

Identity Thief

20135.9

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

Zootopia 3

2026

Office Christmas Party

20165.7

The Sweetest Thing

20025.6

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

20076.3

Disneyland 60: The Wonderful World of Disney

20167.7

Hit & Run

20125.7

Disconnect

20137.1

Thunder Force

20215.5

Bad Words

20136.4

Extract

20095.9

Teen Wolf Too

19874.2

The Ex

20065.3

The Family Fang

20165.8

Fool's Paradise

20234.6

Bates Motel

19874.6

The Longest Week

20145.1

The Promotion

20085.3

A LEGO Brickumentary

20145.9

Necessary Roughness

19915.5

Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart

19956.3

Question & Answer

20208.0

A Farewell to Ozark

20226.7

This Can't Be Love

19945.9

Sol Goode

20034.2

Love Stinks

19996.5

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

20093.0

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

20164.0

Pump

20147.4

The Arrested Development Documentary Project

20135.7

Lennon or McCartney

20145.3

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

20217.5

Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery

20226.0

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

19874.3

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

19945.4

The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins

19845.4

Significant Other

2026

One Way Out

20025.7

The Thanksgiving Promise

19866.0

Moving Target

19886.1

A Taste for Killing

19925.4

Breaking the Rules

19925.3

Mansome

20124.9

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

20148.4

Can You Feel Me Dancing?

19866.6

Crossing the Mob

19885.7

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