Christopher Mintz-Plasse Biography

Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse (born June 20, 1989) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Fogell or McLovin in his film debut, Superbad, Augie Farcques in Role Models, and as Chris D'Amico in Kick-Ass, and its sequel, Kick-Ass 2.

Personal life

Mintz-Plasse was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ellen Mintz, a school counselor, and Ray Plasse, a mailman, and was raised in West Hills, California. His mother is Jewish and his father is from a Catholic family of French-Canadian and Polish descent. Mintz-Plasse attended El Camino Real High School (2003"07).

Career

Mintz-Plasse acted in drama classes from first grade until his senior year in high school. He auditioned with two high school friends for the part of Fogell (aka "McLovin") in the film Superbad without professional head shots, before the audition and just took one with his camera phone. His mother was required by law to be on set while filming his sex scene in the film because he was only 17 years old at the time. Upon release, the movie earned critical and commercial success, with many critics citing Mintz-Plasse's performance as one of the highlights of the movie and earned him a nomination for MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.

After Superbad, Mintz-Plasse next appeared with Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott in the David Wain film Role Models as Augie Farques, a nerdy teenager obsessed with medieval live action role-playing games. He also made a small guest appearance on an episode of David Wain's internet series, Wainy Days. He also starred in a series of short comical PSA's for the website Funny or Die.

He then starred in the Harold Ramis film Year One, as a comedic version of the biblical figure Isaac. He and rapper and actor Common starred in a short online parody of the film Training Day for Cinemash. Mintz-Plasse plays a veteran cop bent on corrupting a young rookie cop, played by Common. He also appeared in a short film titled The Tale of RJ which ended up becoming the basis for the television series The Hard Times of RJ Berger.

The next year he voiced Fishlegs in the Academy Award nominated animated film How to Train Your Dragon. In April 2010, he appeared in Kick-Ass as the superhero Red Mist, a.k.a. Chris D'Amico, which was planned to be a minor role until director Matthew Vaughn saw Mintz-Plasse audition and saw what he was capable off. His performance earned him a Teen Choice Award and Scream Award nomination. In May 2010, he guest-starred in an episode of Party Down as Kent, a friend of the character Roman. He performed his second voice-over in that month in the film Marmaduke, as the stylized dog Giuseppe. The same year he was featured in two music videos, Kid Cudi's Erase Me, featuring Kanye West and the indie rock band The Soft Pack's Answer to Yourself.

In 2011, Mintz-Plasse appeared in the remake of the 1985 film Fright Night as Evil Ed, who is the former best friend of Charley Brewster, played by Anton Yelchin. At first he was reluctant of accepting the role as it was a remake, but after reading the script and seeing the talent involved he accepted the role. He and his Fright Night co-star Dave Franco starred in a Funny or Die video called You're So Hot, where he and Franco compete against each other in a game of "You're So Hot".

In 2012, he lent his voice to the stop motion film, ParaNorman. He played a bully named Alvin in the movie, a role he enjoyed as he had never played the "bully role" before. The same year he also had a small role in the film Pitch Perfect as Tommy, the university's audition launcher. He then starred in two more shorts with Dave Franco, one a follow up video to You're So Hot and another titled Would You, which had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. Mintz-Plasse was supposed to play the lead role in the CBS sitcom Friend Me and even filmed several episodes, but before the series could air, it was cancelled after series creator Alan Kirschenbaum tragcially took his own life. As a promotion for the video game Far Cry 3, he starred in a series of online videos called The Far Cry Experience, as a fictional version of himself trapped on an island control by a psychotic pirate lord named Vaas. He is currently reprising his role of Fishlegs on a How to Train Your Dragon television series, which airs on Cartoon Network.

He reprised his role, Chris D'Amico, now a supervillain known as The Motherfucker, in the sequel Kick-Ass 2, which was released in August 2013. Mintz-Plasse found the role to be darker than any other that he had portrayed, and hired an acting coach to help him with the more intense scenes.He also starred in a short online video where he is revealed to be the "Damn Son Where'd You Find This?" guy. He made his third appearance in a music video in the Unknown Mortal Orchestra's video So Good At Being In Trouble. He and his Kick-Ass co-star Chloë Grace Moretz starred in a short segment in the film Movie 43 titled Middle School Date. He also had small roles in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's This Is the End, playing a fictional version of himself, and in the romantic comedy film The To Do List, starring Aubrey Plaza. In September 2013, Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco set out on a week long road trip across America to promote LG's "It's All Possible" campaign for the electronics company's new flagship smartphone, the LG G2. The actors will document their process and broadcast it on Funny or Die.

Mintz-Plasse currently plays drums for the rock band The Young Rapscallions.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Superbad	Fogell aka McLovin	Nominated"?MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
2008	Role Models	Augie Farcques
2009	Year One	Isaac
	The Tale of RJ	RJ	Short
2010	How to Train Your Dragon	Fishlegs Ingerman	Voice
	Kick-Ass	Chris D'Amico/Red Mist	Nominated"?Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain Nominated"?Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Marmaduke	Giuseppe	Voice
	Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon	Fishlegs Ingerman	Voice Short
2011	Fright Night	"Evil" Ed Lee
	Gift of the Night Fury	Fishlegs Ingerman	Voice Short
	Book of Dragons	Fishlegs Ingerman	Voice Short
2012	ParaNorman	Alvin	Voice
	Would You	Himself	Short
	Pitch Perfect	Tommy
2013	Movie 43	Mikey	Segment: "Middleschool Date"
	This Is the End	Himself
	The To Do List	Duffy
	Kick-Ass 2	Chris D'Amico/The Motherfucker
2014	Neighbors	Scoonie	Post-production
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Fishlegs Ingerman	In production Voice
	Get a Job	Ethan	Completed
	Tag	Jacob	Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Party Down	Kent	Episode: "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday"
2012	Friend Me	Evan	Unaired series
2012"present	Dragons: Riders of Berk	Fishlegs Ingerman	Voice

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Wainy Days	Sketchy laborer #2	Episode: "Tough Guy"
2008"2013	Funny or Die	Himself	Episodes: "The McLovin' Fund" "Piracy PSA" "Your Vote, Your Choice" "You're So Hot with Dave Franco & Chris Mintz-Plasse" "You're So Hot: Part Deux with Dave Franco & Chris Mintz-Plasse" "Chris and Dave's It's All Possible Road Trip"
2009	Cinemash	Corrupt Cop	Episode: "Training Day"
2012	The Far Cry Experience	Himself	Main Role
2013	MysteryKTV	Himself	Episode: "Damn Son Where'd You Find This?"

Music videos

Year	Song	Artist	Notes
2010	Erase Me	Kid Cudi	featuring Kanye West
	Answer to Yourself	The Soft Pack
2013	So Good At Being In Trouble	Unknown Mortal Orchestra

See also