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Jay Baruchel
  • Birth Name:
    Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel
  • Date of Birth:
    April 9, 1982
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Aries
  • Place of Birth:
    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Height:
    5' 11½"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    Canadian
  • Address:
    Montreal, Canada

Family

Jay Baruchel
  • Father:
    Serge Baruchel
  • Mother:
    Robyne Baruchel
  • Brother:
    Taylor

Career

Jay Baruchel
  • Profession:
    Actor
  • Debut:
    Running Home - 1999 - Movie

Awards

Jay Baruchel
2007 : Film Discovery Jury Award, Best Actor
for : I'm Reed Fish (2006)

Trivia

Jay Baruchel
  • He is an avid fan of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
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  • Jay Baruchel started acting classes at age 12.
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  • He played drums for a Canadian rock group called "Martin."
    submitted by - Chotu Dhiman
  • Jay Baruchel speaks French fluently.
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • He is of French and Italian Sephardic Jewish descent on his father's side, and Irish, Prussian and English descent on his mother's.
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Quotes

Jay Baruchel
  • Well, basically I started when I was 12 years old in Montréal doing different Canadian children shows, which amounts to basically relative obscurity in terms of an American resume. And then when I was 17 I got cast in the movie Almost Famous and I did two scenes in that and then I went back home and basically had the worst year of acting in my career, where I did two Chevrolet commercials in 12 months. And that was it and I just basically I had figured that my kid acting career was over and I w - Unknown
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  • I mean, I liked them the same. I really get the same kind of excitement and kick out of doing both of them. I honestly, I truly enjoyed doing both of them. I guess comedy and I won't say that I like it more; the only thing that maybe might give it the edge is it is fun laughing at work all day. But I personally I do have like, I enjoy them equally. - Unknown
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  • Yeah. Well, I don't-I try my best to not sort of-that will–the movies that I'm in will decide that. You know and I have to judge-the only thing I can-the only sort of semblance of a career plan I have is my little criteria, which is, you know is it going to be a fun movie to do and am I going to want to see it when it comes out? And if that means that it is a drama, if that means it's a comedy then so be it. I mean it's a lead or a supporting, so be it. I just want to be in movies that I would - Unknown
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  • It's just too surreal, man. There's only two adjectives I've come up with that even come close to describing what I went through - surreal and gargantuan. - Unknown
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  • Long before I had any business of being picky or discerning, I was. I remember I was 18 in Los Angeles, doing a TV show called 'Undeclared' and I was getting scripts, you know, for things to audition ... and I turned down auditions for 98 per cent of them ... From the very beginning I was like, 'No, I'm living in Montreal and I'm just not going to do movies that depress me. - Unknown
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Biography

Jay Baruchel
Last Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009

Jay BaruchelJonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel better known as Jay Baruchel, is a Canadian film and television actor. Jay Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Robyne, a freelance writer, and Serge Baruchel, an antiques dealer. He has a younger sister, Taylor. His father was Jewish and his mother a Catholic of Irish descent. He got his start on local television series My Hometown in 1996, before co-hosting Popular Mechanics for Kids between 1997 and 1998, alongside fellow Canadian Elisha Cuthbert.

After appearing briefly in Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning Almost Famous, Jay Baruchel won the role of Steven Karp on Judd Apatow's lauded yet short-lived television series Undeclared, where he starred alongside Seth Rogen, Carla Gallo, Charlie Hunnam and Monica Keena. He then supported James Van Der Beek in Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction.

In 2004, Jay Baruchel played Danger Barch, a boxing hopeful, in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, which scooped an Oscar for Best Picture the following year. (Jay's name was among those thanked by Eastwood when accepting the award.) He then starred opposite Don Johnson on the WB's Just Legal in September and October 2005, and guest-starred on CBS's Numb3rs. He will next be seen in two films: I'm Reed Fish, alongside Alexis Bledel, and Fanboys, alongside Sam Huntington and Chris Marquette.

Jay Baruchel was most recently seen onscreen in Apatow's latest film Knocked Up, released on June 1, 2007. One of the films on the slate for production is Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder which casts Baruchel as a Hollywood actor who thinks he's undergoing boot camp training for a war film, only to literally end up in a real war alongside fellow castmates Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.. Jay Baruchel lives in Montreal, Quebec. He is dating actress Sarah Lind who is known for her roles on the television series Mentors and Edgemont.

Filmography

Jay Baruchel


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