Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director, and producer. He is known for his roles of
Michael Bluth in the
Fox/
Netflix sitcom
Arrested Development and of
Marty Byrde in the
Netflix crime drama series
Ozark (2017–2022). He has received several awards including a
Golden Globe Award, a
Primetime Emmy Award, and three
Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2017 he received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He began his career as a
child actor appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the
NBC drama series
Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and
The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991. He has starred in the films
Teen Wolf Too (1987),
Necessary Roughness (1991),
Dodgeball (2004),
Juno (2007),
Hancock (2008),
Up in the Air,
Extract (both 2009),
The Switch (2010),
The Change-Up (2011),
Paul (2011),
Horrible Bosses (2011) and its
sequel (2014),
Identity Thief (2013),
This is Where I Leave You (2014),
The Gift (2015),
Office Christmas Party (2016),
Zootopia (2016), and
Game Night (2018). Since July 2020 he has co-hosted the comedy podcast
SmartLess with
Will Arnett and
Sean Hayes.
Bateman made his
directorial debut with the black comedy
Bad Words (2013), in which he also starred. He has since directed and starred in
The Family Fang (2015) and the
Netflix crime drama series
Ozark (2017–2022). Bateman was awarded the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 for his directing of
Ozark and has won three
Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance. In 2020 he had a recurring role in (and directed two episodes of) the
HBO miniseries
The Outsider.
