Mike C Myers

Mike Myers

• Birth Name Michael John Myers
• Biography Michael John Myers was born in 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario. His television career really started in 1988, when he joined "Saturday Night Live" (1975), where he spent six seasons. He brought to life m...
  
• Write biography Aaron Dodd <[email protected]>
  
• Spouse Robin Ruzan (23 May 1993 - 2007) (divorced)
  
• Trade Mark Frequently appears wearing his underpants in films.
  Frequently plays multiple characters
  
• Trivia Collects model soldiers; he finds the building and painting of thesoldiers to be relaxing.
  Graduated high school in 1982 and was immediately accepted intoToronto's Second City Comedy ensemble.
  As a teenager, he would act out his Wayne character to girls at parties.
  Has 3 dogs named after hockey players.
  Used to take dancing lessons in Toronto.
  His character Linda Richman on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), isbased on his mother-in-law, Linda Richman.
  
• Other Work Music video for Madonna: "Beautiful Stranger"
  TV commercial (clip from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery(1997)) for Philips High Definition Television (1999)
  TV Special "Wayne and Garth's SNL Music a Go-Go" (1993)
  TV Special SNL Presents "Bill Clinton's All Time Greatest Hits" (1994)
  TV Special "Austin Powers Dance Party" for MTV (1997)
  Was Master of Ceremonies for the "Vision Awards" (1998)
  
• Biography print Martin Knelman. "Mike's World: The Life of Mike Myers". Toronto, Canada: FireflyBooks, 2003.ISBN 1552976610
  Paul Simpson. "Mike Myers". Richmond, Surrey, England: Reynolds & Hearn, 2003.ISBN 1903111501
  
• Personal quotes "Austin Powers was born out of trying to celebrate my father's life. Myfather's favorites were mine -- Peter Sellers, Monty Python,Peter Cook (I), and Dudley Moore...My dad was a guy wholoved to be si...
  I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come andarrest me.
  As a people, the English find male partial nudity and cross-dressing tobe very funny. It's definitely a color on our palette, and I follow inthat tradition.
  Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is themathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celeryas a flavour.
  "Peter Sellers, Dan Aykroyd, the whole original SNL cast.Lorne Michaels is a hero of mine. I did a project on him ingrade eight. He's a Canadian hero. He's a man of impeccable taste. AndGilda Radner w...
  Of Shrek 3, where he again provided the character's voice: The firsttime you meet him, he's a self-loathing ogre who doesn't feel that he'sworthy of love. In the second one, he doesn't feel worthy of ...
  
• Salary Shrek 2 (2004): $10,000,000.00
  
• Article "Parade" (USA), 9 May 2010, pg. 4-5, by: Jeanne Wolf, "'I can't wia to see what happens next'"
  "The Sydney Morning Herald" (Australia), 23 January 2009, by: AP, "Myers gets a gong"
  "The Independent" (UK), 7 August 2008, Iss. 6803, pg. 14 - 15, by: Guy Adams, "The way he used to tell 'em"
  "Parade" (USA), 16 November 2003, pg. 30, by: James Brady, "In Step With: Mike Myers"
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 26 July 2002, Vol. 1, Iss. 664, pg. 22-28, by: Gillian Flynn, "A Stroke of Genius?"
  "Premiere" (USA), October 2000, Vol. 14, Iss. 2, pg. 48-51, by: Gregg Kilday, "Spanking The Monkey"
  
• Pictorial "Playboy" (USA), November 1997, Vol. 44, Iss. 11, pg. 135, by: Bruce Williamson, "Sex In Cinema 1997"
  
• Cover Photo "Parade" (USA), 9 May 2010
  "Parade" (USA), 16 November 2003
  "Veronica" (Netherlands), 15 March 2003, Iss. 11
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 26 July 2002, Vol. 1, Iss. 664
  "Radio Times" (UK), 31 July 1999, Vol. 302, Iss. 3937
  "The Source" (UK), 30 July 1999, Iss. 67
  
• Filmography

  Untitled Keith Moon Project (2012) Biography

  How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2011) Comedy

  Marvin the Martian (2011) Sci-Fi

  AMC News Special: The Stories of Tribeca (2010) (TV) News

  Shrek Forever After (2010) Fantasy

  "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) {(2010-05-17)}

  "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) {(2010-05-18)}

  "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) {(2010-05-21)}

  "Iconoclasts" (2005) {Mike Myers and Deepak Chopra (#3.3)}

  "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (2009) {(#1.202)}