Jason Sudeikis

Jason Sudeikis is my favorite kind of late bloomer. The improv resume — ComedySportz, iO, Second City — gave him decades of reps before Saturday Night Live made him familiar, but Ted Lasso made him essential. What strikes me is the bet he placed: in an era when comedy defaulted to irony and cruelty, he built a show on radical decency and won an Emmy for it. That only works because his niceness has craft underneath — improv timing, character logic, real melancholy. I think he understood earlier than most that audiences were starving for warmth, and he had the discipline to serve it without letting it curdle into sentimentality.

Name (English)

Jason Sudeikis

Name (Japanese)

ジェイソン・サダイキス

Reading

じぇいそん・さだいきす

Born

September 18, 1975 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Origin

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / screenwriter / film actor / comedian

High school

Shawnee Mission West High School

University

Fort Scott Community College

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Time 100
• 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Virginia
• actor
• television actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.