One of my fav. Actors- Mike Myers

Michael John Myers



Myers was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, the son of Alice (née Hind), an office supervisor who was formerly in the RAF, and Eric Myers (died in 1991), who worked in the insurance business and previously was a cook for the British Army.[1][2] Both of his parents are from Liverpool. His older brother Paul is an indie rock singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author. He is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry,[3] and was raised Protestant.[4] He attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute but then changed schools and went to Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario. Myers also attended Second City at the age of 19. He began working in commercials at age eight, and at nine he made a commercial for British Columbia Hydro Electric with Gilda Radner playing his mother. He was a very popular person in his school. During high school, to make girls laugh, he would go into the Wayne’s World character that later came to be known as Wayne Campbell. The day he finished his high school finals he got into Second City. Later, he left Second City to tour England with comedian Neil Mullarkey.

One of Myers' first acting jobs was in a TV commercial when he was ten years old.[2] Gilda Radner played his mother. A few months later, according to Myers, his brother was teasing him about his "girlfriend (Radner) being on some stupid show on Saturday." Myers swore that one day, he too would be on that show.
Myers graduated from high school in 1982 and was immediately accepted into the Second City Canadian Touring Company, after which he moved to the UK where in 1985 he was one of the founding members of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational group based at The Comedy Store in London. The next year, he starred in the British children's TV program Wide Awake Club, parodying the show's normal exuberance with his own "Sound Asleep Club", in partnership with Neil Mullarkey. He returned to Toronto and Second City in 1986 as a cast member in the Second City's Toronto main stage show. In 1988 he moved from Second City in Toronto to Chicago. In Chicago, he trained and performed at the Improv Olympic. He made numerous appearances, including as Wayne Campbell, on Toronto's Citytv in the early 1980s, on the alternative video show "City Limits" hosted by Christopher Ward. Myers also appeared as his Wayne Campbell character in the music video for Ward's Canadian hit "Boys and Girls". Later, Ward would appear as one of Austin Powers' band members in Ming Tea in Myers' popular movie series. Myers has played for Hollywood United F.C., a celebrity studded U.S. soccer team.


Year
Film
Role
Other notes
1985
John and Yoko: A Love Story (TV)
Delivery Boy
1989
Elvis Stories
Cockney Man
1992
Wayne's World
Wayne Campbell
1993
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Charlie Mackenzie/Stuart Mackenzie
Wayne's World 2
Wayne Campbell
1997
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers/Dr. Evil
1998
The Thin Pink Line
Tim Broderick
54
Steve Rubell
Pete's Meteor
Pete
1999
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers/Dr. Evil/Fat Bastard
Mystery, Alaska
Donnie Shulzhoffer
2001
Shrek
Shrek (voice)
2002
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers/Dr. Evil/Fat Bastard/Goldmember
2003
View from the Top
John Witney
Shrek 4-D
Shrek (voice)
Nobody Knows Anything!
'Eye' Witness
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat
2004
Shrek 2
Shrek (voice)
2006
Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event For Autism Education (TV)
Donald Q. Cashington
2007
Shrek the Third
Shrek (voice)
Shrek the Halls (TV)
Shrek (voice)
2008
The Love Guru
Pitka and himself
2009
Inglourious Basterds
Gen. Ed Fenech
filming
2010
Shrek Goes Fourth
Shrek (voice)
filming