B.J. Novak

Known for ActingBorn 1979-07-31 (age 47)Newton, Massachusetts, USA

Benjamin Joseph Manaly Novak (born July 31, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, author, and producer. He gained traction as a comedian during the early 2000s before becoming a field agent for the MTV reality prank show Punk'd (2003). Novak had his breakout with a leading role as Ryan Howard on seasons 1–8 of the NBC mockumentary sitcom The Office (2005–2013). His acting, writing and producing for the show earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award, alongside five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. In the late 2000s, Novak had supporting roles in the films Reign Over Me (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). In the 2010s, he portrayed musician Robert B. Sherman in Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and Marvel Comics character Alistair Smythe in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He had a starring role as Harry J. Sonneborn in the biographical film The Founder (2016) and voiced Baker Smurf in The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). In television, he had a recurring role as Lucas Pruit on the HBO series The Newsroom (2014). In the 2020s, Novak made his film directorial debut with Vengeance (2022), which he also produced and starred in. He created and wrote the FX on Hulu anthology series The Premise (2021). In addition to his film and television career, Novak authored the books One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (2014) and The Book with No Pictures (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article B.J. Novak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Office

Lessons in Chemistry

Inglourious Basterds

The Newsroom

Community

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

The Bitter Buddha

Poker Face

The Office Retrospective

Raising Dad

Saving Mr. Banks

The Founder

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Reign Over Me

Conan

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Vengeance

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Premise

Some Good News

Late Night

Celebrity Jeopardy!

The Mindy Project

The Internship

Knocked Up

The Dictator

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Unaccompanied Minors

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Smurfs 2

The Smurfs

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Punk'd

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Farce of the Penguins

The View

Live from E!

Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor

Untitled Mitch Hedberg Documentary