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Jon Cryer

Jon Cryer

Birthday: 1965-04-16 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer (born April 16, 1965, height 5' 9" (1,75 m)) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress–singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame as "Duckie" in the 1986 John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he finished writing and producing the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five, which was well received. Even though Cryer gained some fame by starring in these films, it took several years to find success on television; the shows he had starred in (The Famous Teddy Z, Partners and The Trouble with Normal) did not last very long. In 2003, he was cast as Alan Harper on the CBS hit comedy series Two and a Half Men, opposite Charlie Sheen, for which Cryer won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2009. He received three earlier Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the show.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
18½

as    H.R. 'Bob' Haldeman (voice)

2022
Devoured

as    Narrator

2020
Big Time Adolescence

as    Reuben

2014
Hit by Lightning

as    Ricky Miller

2013
Ass Backwards

as    Dean Morris

2011
Company

as    David

2009
Weather Girl

as    Charles

2009
Shorts

as    Dad Thompson

2008
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby

as    Richard Pig (voice)

2003
Two and a Half Men

as    Alan Harper

2003
Hey Joel

as    Joel Stein

2000
The Trouble with Normal

as    Zack Mango

1998
Holy Man

as    Barry

1998
Getting Personal

as    Sam Wagner

1997
Plan B

as    Stuart Winer

1996
The Pompatus of Love

as    Mark

1995
Partners

as    Bob

1994
Heads

as    Guy Franklin

1991
Hot Shots!

as    Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach

1987
Hiding Out

as    Andrew Morenski / Max Hauser

1987
Dudes

as    Grant

1987
1987
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

as    Morgan Sewart

1986
Pretty in Pink

as    Philip F. "Duckie" Dale

1984
No Small Affair

as    Charles Cummings