William Thomas “Bill” Hader, Jr. (born June 7, 1978)is an American comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. He is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live (2005–2013), for which he has received three Emmy nominations, South Park (2009–present), and his parody series Documentary Now! (2015–present).
He is also known for his supporting work in comedy films, such as You, Me and Dupree (2006), Hot Rod (2007), Superbad (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Paul (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012) and Maggie’s Plan (2015). He has also had lead voice roles in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), Inside Out (2015), and The Angry Birds Movie (2016) as well as lead roles in the dramedy The Skeleton Twins (2014) and the romantic comedy Trainwreck (2015). He has performed voice roles in Pixar films, including Inside Out, Monsters University, and Finding Dory. He also stared in super hero movie “Power Rangers (2017)”.
Hader was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Sherri Renee (née Patton) and William Thomas Hader.
His father owned an air-freight company and worked as a restaurant manager, a truck driver and occasionally a stand-up comedian; his mother was a dance teacher. He has two younger sisters, Katie and Kara. His ancestry includes German, Danish, Irish, and English; his surname originates in Germany.
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 with 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, and starred in a school play 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. He worked as an usher at a movie theater in nearby Tempe, which allowed him to see films for free. He was fired for spoiling the ending of Titanic to noisy patrons.
At Scottsdale, he met Nicholas Jasenovec, the director of Paper Heart.
Hader’s aspirations of becoming a filmmaker eventually led him to drop out of college and move to Los Angeles in 1999. His parents were supportive of his decision to move, and Hader used the money they had saved for college to live on when he arrived in Los Angeles.
He found work as a production assistant while scouring the back pages of The Hollywood Reporter, and he hoped to advance far enough to become an assistant director. He spent much of his young adulthood “lonely and underemployed,” filling large amounts of spare time with movie marathons. He regularly worked 18-hour days as a PA, having little time to pursue his creative ambitions. He worked as a production assistant on the DVD Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy; the feature films James Dean, Spider-Man, and Collateral Damage; as well as a post-production assistant on VH1 television’s The Surreal Life. Hader briefly worked as a PA and stage manager on Playboy TV’s Night Calls; he quit, as he feared it would disappoint his parents. He quit being a production assistant after a bad experience shooting The Scorpion King.
He subsequently secured a job working as a nighttime assistant editor at post-production facility Triage Entertainment.
He invested money into his own
short film, but was too embarrassed to release it. Shortly thereafter, he and a longtime girlfriend broke up.
Desperate for a change, he began attending comedy classes with friends at improvisational comedy enterprise the Second City in March 2003. It soon became a creative outlet, and he formed a comedy group named Animals from the Future, alongside Matt Offerman.
The group performed backyard shows in Van Nuys. Offerman’s brother, the actor Nick Offerman, told his wife, Megan Mullally, about the group. Mullally invited Lorne Michaels, creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live (SNL), to come to Los Angeles and see a performance. The group later flew to New York to perform once more for a group of SNL producers. As a result of the audition, Hader got an agent and manager. Prior to his audition, he was nervous and struggled to highlight his strengths.
Just before he was discovered for SNL, Hader was working as an assistant editor on Iron Chef America.
Hader voiced Alpha 5 in the 2017 film Power Rangers.
In 2006, Hader married writer-director Maggie Carey. They have three daughters together: Hannah Kathryn, born October 6, 2009, Harper, born July 28, 2012, and Hayley Clementine, born November 15, 2014.
Bill Hader net worth is estimated $9 million (net worth estimated in 2017).
- An Uzomedia Biography
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