Jay Baruchel

Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (; born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor and director. He is best known for his voice role as Hiccup Haddock in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' franchise, and for his lead roles in the comedies ''Fanboys'' (2009), ''She's Out of My League'' (2010), and ''This Is the End'' (2013). Baruchel was the co-lead in the Disney action-fantasy film ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (2010). Films in which Baruchel has had a starring role have grossed over $1.28 billion at the worldwide box office as of 2024.

Baruchel has also had supporting roles in comedy movies such as ''Knocked Up'' (2007), ''Tropic Thunder'' (2008), ''Goon'' (2011), and ''The Art of the Steal'' (2013). In television, he had lead roles as Steven Karp in Judd Apatow's comedy series ''Undeclared'' (2001–2002) and Josh Greenberg in the FXX comedy series ''Man Seeking Woman'' (2015–2017), both of which received praise from critics.

Baruchel had a lead role as BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis in the biographical comedy-drama film ''BlackBerry'' (2023), for which he won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film. He has also had non-comedic lead roles in films such as ''Good Neighbours'' (2010), ''The Kindness of Strangers'' (2019), and ''Humane'' (2024), and supporting roles in ''Million Dollar Baby'' (2004), ''Cosmopolis'' (2012), and ''RoboCop'' (2014). Baruchel has directed the films ''Goon: Last of the Enforcers'' (2017) and ''Random Acts of Violence'' (2019), which he both acted in. Provided by Wikipedia