Jon Cryer Biography

Fast Facts

• Began acting in junior high school
• Attended Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, before his senior year of high school
• Frequently mistaken for Matthew Broderick, whom he understudied and succeeded in the off-Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy and the Broadway play Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Another Broderick connection occured when Cryer made his film acting debut in No Small Affair, playing a role originally intended for Broderick
• Cowrote, produced and starred in the independent films The Pompatus of Love and Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God
• Be Back in Five
• Formed a company of mail-order home-cooked food in 1995 with his mother, Gretchen Cryer