Bill Hader is best known as a comedian. He was a part of SNL. Recently, though, he has received acclaim for his dramatic chops.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career!
- His full name is William Thomas Hader Jr.
- He was born in June 7, 1978
- He is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director
- He rose to fame as a cast member on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live (2005–2013)
- For which he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Peabody Award
- Hader is also the co-creator, writer, and producer of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! (2015–present)
- In 2018, Hader created and began starring as the titular assassin in the HBO dark comedy series Barry
- Which earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
- And consecutive nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for its first two seasons
- He had supporting roles in the films Superbad (2007), Tropic Thunder (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Adventureland (2009), Paul (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012), The To Do List (2013) and Maggie’s Plan (2015)
- And leading roles in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Trainwreck (2015) and It Chapter Two (2019)
- He voiced characters in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise (2009–2014), Monsters University (2013), Turbo (2013), Inside Out (2015), Finding Dory (2016), the Angry Birds film series (2016–2019), and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
- Bill Hader was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- He is the son of Sherri Renee and William Thomas Hader
- His father owned an air-freight company and worked as a restaurant manager, truck driver and occasional stand-up comedian
- His mother was a dance teacher
- He has two younger sisters, Katie and Kara
- His surname originates in Germany
- His ancestry includes German, Danish, Irish, and English
- And among his ancestors are King Edward I and Charlemagne
- Bill Hader attended Patrick Henry Elementary School, Edison Junior High, and Cascia Hall Preparatory School
- He had “a hard time focusing on class” and was always “joking around”
- Though he was not hated by classmates, he felt he never truly fit in and filled his time watching movies and reading
- He appreciated Monty Python, British comedy, and the films of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen
- Many of which he was introduced to through his father
- He made short films with friends
- He starred in a school production of The Glass Menagerie
- He was unable to gain admission to top film schools because of his “abysmal” grades
- So he instead enrolled at The Art Institute of Phoenix
- And later Scottsdale Community College
- Bill Hader has mentioned that his very first job was selling Christmas trees
- He also worked as an usher at a movie theater in nearby Tempe
- It allowed him to see films for free
- He was fired for spoiling the ending of the 1997 film Titanic to noisy patrons
- At Scottsdale, he met Nicholas Jasenovec, the director of Paper Heart
- In 2006, Hader married writer-director Maggie Carey
- They have three daughters together
- They were born in October 2009, July 2012 and November 2014
- Hader and Carey announced their separation in 2017
- Bill Hader filed for divorce in December 2017
- The uncontested divorce reached a settlement on March 1, 2018
- They were restored to single persons on June 23, 2018
- Hader is an avid reader
- He said “I didn’t really go to college, which is probably why I enjoy reading the classics”
- Works by Dostoevsky and Faulkner, as well as Richard Ford, Junichiro Tanizaki, and George Saunders are among the books on his shelves
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