Michael McDonald
Acting
Born 1964-12-31
Fullerton, California, USA
105 credits
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Michael James McDonald (born December 31, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv. He was also a writer, director, and producer of the ABC TV series Cougar Town.
His best known movie roles are as Little John in Halloween Kills, Ronovan Scargle in The Happy time Murders, Jonathan in Ghostbusters (2016), Bryce Crean in The Boss, Patrick in Spy, Julian in The Heat, and small roles in each Austin Powers movie.
He graduated from USC with a degree in Business and became a loan officer at a bank in Los Angeles. A friend took him to see a sketch comedy/improv show at L.A.'s famous Groundling Theater, and everything changed for him. He quit his job as a banker, enrolled in the Groundling's Improv Program, and became a member of the troupe from 1992 to 1997.
His first professional writing and acting jobs came from Concorde Pictures, Roger Corman's infamous low-budget movie studio. Starting as an extra, he landed small roles in many B-movies of the early 1990s, and he gradually earned bigger roles as well as eventually writing and directing some films.
He joined MADtv during the fourth season (1998) and remained in the cast until the end of the thirteenth and penultimate season, having become the longest-tenured cast member. After 10 years on MADtv, he left the cast, but was a contributing writer and director for the show's final season. He was the last member of the cast to be hired in the 1990s, and the last cast member to have been born in the 1960s, and is the only cast member to have a "best of" clip show special dedicated to him.
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Acting
43 credits
Desperate Housewives
Seinfeld
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Community
Scrubs
The Loud House
The Drew Carey Show
Hannah Montana
What We Do in the Shadows
Family Matters
The Sex Lives of College Girls
Ellen
25 Words or Less
Just Shoot Me!
Cougar Town
NewsRadio
7th Heaven
Reaper
Pushing Daisies
How I Met Your Father
Ghostbusters
The John Larroquette Show
Web Therapy
Invader ZIM
The Heat
Halloween Kills
Spy
It's Florida, Man.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Web Therapy
Clone High
Good Times
Head Case
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
The Boss
Rhett & Link's Buddy System
Sherman Oaks
Kath & Kim
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Leprechaun 2
Fat Actress
Directing
17 credits
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Scrubs
2 Broke Girls
American Housewife
The Good Place
Mike & Molly
Cougar Town
7th Heaven
Man with a Plan
Home Economics
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
Not Dead Yet
Men at Work
English Teacher
The Michael J. Fox Show
Powerless
Benched
Other credits
4 credits
Writing
1 credit
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