Christopher Mintz-Plasse

     Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse (born June 20, 1989) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Fogell (better known as "McLovin") in Superbad, Augie Farcques in Role Models, and as Chris D'Amico in Kick-Ass and its sequel Kick-Ass 2.

Mintz-Plasse was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ellen Mintz, a school counselor, and Ray Plasse, a mailman, and was raised in West Hills, California. His father is from a Catholic family of half Polish, as well as French-Canadian and Irish, descent; his mother is Jewish.^[1] Mintz-Plasse attended El Camino Real High School (2003–07)


Mintz-Plasse acted in drama classes from first grade until his senior year in high school. He auditioned with two high school friends for the part of Fogell (aka "McLovin") in Superbad^[5] without professional head shots, before the audition and just took one with his camera phone.^[6] His mother was required by law to be on set while filming his sex scene in the film because he was only 17 years old at the time.^[7][8] Upon release, the film earned critical and commercial success, with many critics citing Mintz-Plasse's performance as one of its highlights and earned him a nomination for MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.^[9][10]
In 2008, Mintz-Plasse next appeared with Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott in David Wain's film Role Models as Augie Farques, a nerdy teenager obsessed with medieval live action role-playing games. He also made a small guest appearance on an episode of David Wain's internet series, Wainy Days. He also starred in a series of short comical PSA's for the website Funny or Die.^[11] He then starred in Harold Ramis' film Year One, as a comedic version of the biblical figure Isaac. He also appeared in a short film titled The Tale of RJ which ended up becoming the basis for the television series The Hard Times of RJ Berger.^[12]
The next year he voiced Fishlegs in the Academy Award nominated animated film How to Train Your Dragon. In April 2010, he appeared in Kick-Ass as the superhero Red Mist, a.k.a. Chris D'Amico, which was planned to be a minor role until director Matthew Vaughn saw Mintz-Plasse audition and saw what he was capable of. Mintz-Plasse was originally auditioned for Kick-Ass but when the producers believed that his acting was too loud and obnoxious they immediately gave him the role of Red Mist instead.^[13][14] His performance earned him a Teen Choice Award and Scream Award nomination.^[15][16] In May 2010, he guest-starred in an episode of Party Down as Kent, a friend of the character Roman.^[17] He performed his second voice-over in that month in the film Marmaduke, as the stylized dog Giuseppe. The same year he was featured in two music videos, Kid Cudi's Erase Me, featuring Kanye West and the indie rock band The Soft Pack's Answer to Yourself.^[18][19]

Mintz-Plasse at the Deauville Film Festival in 2011.

In 2011, Mintz-Plasse appeared in the remake of the 1985 film Fright Night as Evil Ed, who is the former best friend of Charley Brewster, played by Anton Yelchin.^[20] At first he was reluctant of accepting the role as it was a remake, but after reading the script and seeing the talent involved he accepted the role.^[21] He and his Fright Night co-star Dave Franco starred in a Funny or Die video called You're So Hot, where he and Franco compete against each other in a game of "You're So Hot".^[22]

Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco on the "It's All Possible" road trip in September 2013

In 2012, he lent his voice to the stop motion film, ParaNorman playing a bully named Alvin.^[23] The same year he also had a small role in the film Pitch Perfect as Tommy, the university's audition launcher. He then starred in two more shorts with Dave Franco, one a follow up video to You're So Hot and another titled Would You, which had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.^[22][24] Mintz-Plasse was supposed to play the lead role in the CBS sitcom Friend Me and even filmed several episodes, but before the series could air, it was cancelled after series creator Alan Kirschenbaum tragcially took his own life.^[25] As a promotion for the video game Far Cry 3, he starred in a series of online videos called The Far Cry Experience, as a fictional version of himself trapped on an island control by a psychotic pirate lord named Vaas.^[26] He is currently reprises his role of Fishlegs in DreamWorks Dragons television series, which aired on Cartoon Network.
He reprised his role, Chris D'Amico, now a supervillain known as The Motherfucker, in the sequel Kick-Ass 2, which was released in August 2013.^[23] Mintz-Plasse found the role to be darker than any other that he had portrayed, and hired an acting coach to help him with the more intense scenes.^[27] He made his third appearance in a music video in the Unknown Mortal Orchestra's video So Good At Being In Trouble.^[28] He and his Kick-Ass co-star Chloë Grace Moretz starred in a short segment in the film Movie 43 titled Middle School Date. He also had small roles in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's This Is the End, playing a fictional version of himself, and in the romantic comedy film The To Do List, starring Aubrey Plaza.^[29][30] In September 2013, Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco set out on a week long road trip across America to promote LG's "It’s All Possible" campaign for the electronics company’s new flagship smartphone, the LG G2. The actors documented their process and broadcast it on Funny or Die.^[31] Mintz-Plasse had a supporting role as college fraternity student Scoonie in the 2014 hit comedy film Neighbors and reprised his role as Fishlegs in the animated sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2.^[32][33]
Mintz-Plasse plays drums for the rock band The Young Rapscallions

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Superbad	Fogell/McLovin	Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
2008	Role Models	Augie Farcques
2009	Year One	Isaac
2009	The Tale of RJ	RJ	Short
2010	How to Train Your Dragon	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)
2010	Kick-Ass	Chris D'Amico/Red Mist	Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain Nominated—Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor
2010	Marmaduke	Giuseppe (voice)
2010	Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	Short
2011	Fright Night	"Evil" Ed Lee
2011	Gift of the Night Fury	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	Short
2011	Book of Dragons	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	Short
2012	ParaNorman	Alvin (voice)
2012	Would You	Himself	Short
2012	Pitch Perfect	Tommy
2013	Movie 43	Mikey	Segment: "Middleschool Date"
2013	This Is the End	Christopher Mintz-Plasse
2013	The To Do List	Duffy
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Chris D'Amico/The Motherfucker
2014	Neighbors	Scoonie	Nominated—Young Hollywood Award for Best Cast Chemistry - Film (shared with Neighbors cast) Nominated—Young Hollywood Award for Best Threesome (shared with Zac Efron & Dave Franco)
2014	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)
2014	Get a Job	Ethan	Completed
2014	Tag	Jacob	Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Party Down	Kent	Episode: "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday"
2012	Friend Me	Evan	Unaired series
2012–present	DreamWorks Dragons	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	40 episodes

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Wainy Days	Sketchy laborer #2	Episode: "Tough Guy"
2008	Piracy PSA	Himself	Funny or Die short
2008	Your Vote, Your Choice	Himself	Funny or Die short
2008	The McLovin' Fund	Himself	Funny or Die short
2009	Training Day	Corrupt Cop	Cinemash short[35]
2011	You're So Hot	Himself	Funny or Die short
2012	You're So Hot: Part Deux	Himself	Funny or Die Short
2012	The Far Cry Experience	Himself	Main Role
2013	Damn Son Where'd You Find This?	Himself	Short [36]
2013	Chris & Daves Epic Adventure	Himself	Funny or Die series
2014	Hazing	Himself	Funny or Die short
2014	You're So Hot: Vol. 3	O-Ren Ishii	Funny or Die short

Discography

Music videos

Year	Song	Artist	Notes
2010	Erase Me	Kid Cudi	featuring Kanye West
2010	Answer to Yourself	The Soft Pack
2013	So Good At Being In Trouble	Unknown Mortal Orchestra