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28 postsDax Shepard is an American actor, born in 1975 in Milford, Michigan. He has starred in many TV series, including It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Parenthood,
and many movies, including Idiocracy, Hit & Run and The Judge.
He is married to actress, Kristen Bell.
In this mockumentary directed by Brad Martin, on the rise and fall of a Chipendale dancer turned martial arts action star, Shepard plays Bucky, an SFX Coordinator. Costarring David Leitch, Angelina Jolie, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Eric Roberts.
In this comedy directed by Michael McCullers, a successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate. Shepard plays Carl Loomis. Costarring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Romany Malco, and Steve Martin.
I had a great time. My first time in a movie with all women and I really enjoyed it.
In this comedy directed by Bob Odenkirk, when a career criminal’s plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim’s son in his place by putting him in prison and then joining him. Shepard plays John. Costaring Will Arnett and Chi McBride.
We didn’t study prisoners that much. There’s not much you can do as an actor in this case, research wise. I mean, you can’t go to prison… I mean, you could go to prison, but I was not willing to go to prison for a comedy.
In this comedy film directed by Greg Coolidge, two employees who compete for the affection of their newest co-worker. Shepard plays Vince Downey, Super Club’s head cashier and the main antagonist. Co-stars are Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson.
The cast is, pound for pound, one of the funniest groups of people ever in a movie. Andy Dick is hysterical, Harland Williams is hysterical, Tim Bagley is unbelievable, Efren, my sidekick, Pedro from Napoleon’s great, Dane’s great. And a free for all of improv that all came together perfectly.
Idiocracy is satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge. It is about two people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society wherein advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly unthinking society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights. Shepard plays Frito Pendejo. Co-stars are Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Terry Crews.
It initially was very heartbreaking, because I think the movie was worthy of a wide release. But I’ll tell you there’s this weird phenomenon happening with the movie, which I’m told is the same thing that happened with Office Space, which is, all the people that I respect, the kind of people’s opinions I value, are seeing the movie despite it trying to get killed. I couldn’t beg my good friends, fellow comedians, to go see Without a Paddle, but all these people who I love are going to see Idiocracy without me even telling them that it’s out. It’s kind of a neat phenomenon.
I try to approach making movies in a way that it’s about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense. Regardless of what happens with Idiocracy, I still have three months in Austin Texas with Mike Judge, which were three of the best months of my life. So for me, on a life level, the result’s still he same. I had a wonderful time and it was really a unique experience and I got to work with someone I idolize, so that remains intact.
In this fantasy adventure film directed by Jon Favreau, two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing. Shepard plays Astronaut Walter. Costarring Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Kristen Stewart, and Tim Robbins.
It was a blast. I got to rocket through the ceiling…
Directed by Steven Brill, this comedy is about three reunited childhood friends going on a trip up a remote river in order to search for the loot of a long-lost airplane hijacker. Shepard plays Tom Marshall. Costarring Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard, and Burt Reynolds.
Tons of stuff. He [Matthew Liiard] and Seth both really, y’know, took me under their wing, and showed—I mean I just, I didn’t have the technical knowledge that they had as far as, y’know, camera placement, what do you do in the, y’know, cross—there’s just tons of stuff I didn’t know, and they were both really patient, really. Lillard’s—one of his first pieces of advice was the truest he said, and that was, “Hey Dax, it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.” ‘Cause I blew most of my wad during the camera tests to try out whether our outfits worked or not for the studio. I was like, at a hundred and ninety-eight percent for the first week and a half.
Dax Randall Shepard is born in 1975 in Milford, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, to Laura (LaBo), who works at GM. His mother is of French-Canadian and Belgian descent. His father, Dave Robert Shepard, Sr., is a car salesman, and an alcoholic:
He loved to eat. Holy shit could he eat. Of all of his addictions, and there were many (drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, sex, cars, houses, shiny things), eating was his number one. He never did get a handle on that vice. He could hunker down in front of the TV for hours, nibbling with comma-inducing ferocity the entire time. Nothing in the pantry was safe. He would come up with the most counter-intuitive combinations of food. Like a true alchemist, he’d put salsa on oatmeal, or smother frozen waffles with a can of black beans. He was like a perpetually stoned, pregnant woman. No permutation of ingredients was out of the question; anything was possible. It was a sight to behold.
He graduates from Walled Lake High School in 1993.
