Paul Rudd Biography

Fast Facts

• Has said that Steve Martin's comedy albums were his inspiration to become a performer
• His breakout film role was Josh, the stepbrother of Alicia Silverstone's character, in the popular comedy Clueless
• Starred in both the stage and film productions of The Shape of Things, directed by fellow University of Kansas alum Neil LaBute
• Frequently works with Judd Apatow, starring in the filmmaker's hit comedies The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Knocked Up (2007)
• Costarred with Julia Roberts in her much-ballyhooed (if critically panned) 2006 Broadway debut, Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain