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Jason Sudeikis is widely known for his award-winning performance in the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso,” but the actor had a long career before that. In 2003, he began writing for “Saturday Night Live” and went on to work as an actor and writer for the show for 10 years. After gaining popularity on “SNL,” Sudeikis appeared in other shows, including “30 Rock” and “The Cleveland Show.” He then transitioned to movies, starring in comedies such as “Horrible Bosses,” “The Campaign,” and “We’re the Millers.” He also took on roles in indie films like “Sleeping With Other People,” “Colossal,” and “Booksmart.” In 2020, Sudeikis cocreated, cowrote, and coproduced “Ted Lasso,” which he also stars in. The third season of the show is set to premiere on March 15. To catch up on some of Sudeikis’s other works, check out 18 of his best movies and TV shows!
Jason Sudeikis Movies
1. “Booksmart”
Directed by his then-partner Olivia Wilde, Sudeikis stars as Principal Jordan Brown in this coming-of-age comedy. The film follows two successful high school students, Molly and Amy, who attend a graduation party on the last day of classes.
2. “Colossal”
Sudeikis shares the screen with Anne Hathaway in “Colossal,” a science-fiction black comedy. After Gloria (Hathaway) is kicked out of her apartment, she moves back home and reunites with her childhood best friend, Oscar (Sudeikis), at which point she discovers she has the power to manifest a reptilian monster and control it with her mind/body.
3. “Kodachrome”
In this 2017 Netflix film, Sudeikis plays Matt Ryder, a record executive on the verge of losing his job. He learns his estranged father, photojournalist Benjamin Ryder (Ed Harris), has terminal cancer and requests his company on a cross-country road trip to process the last of his Kodachrome film.
4. “Tumbledown”
In this rom-com, Sudeikis plays the role of New York writer Andrew McCabe, who travels to Maine to investigate the murder of a popular folk singer. During his visit, he falls for the victim’s widow, Hannah Miles (Rebecca Hall).
5. “Horrible Bosses”
Arguably one of Sudeikis’s biggest movies, “Horrible Bosses” follows three friends who hatch a plan to get revenge on their overbearing bosses by murdering them.
6. “We’re the Millers”
Sudeikis collaborated with Jennifer Aniston in the 2013 film “We’re the Millers,” which centers around low-level weed dealer David Clark (Sudeikis), who convinces his neighbors to pose as members of his family so he can smuggle drugs from Mexico to the US.
7. “Race”
In this sports biopic, Sudeikis portrays Larry Snyder, a real-life athlete and renowned coach of olympian Jesse Owens. Throughout the film, Snyder coaches and helps Owens (Stephan James) make his way to the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
8. “Masterminds”
Based on the 1997 robbery of the Loomis Fargo factory in North Carolina, “Masterminds” follows a group of criminals who rob the Loomis Fargo & Company of nearly $20 million. Sudeikis plays Michael Aaron “Mike” McKinney, an unstable hitman hired by members of the crew to kill David Scott Ghantt (Zach Galifinakis).
9. “Driven”
Loosely based on a true story, “Driven” stars Sudeikis as pilot Jim Hoffman, who becomes an FBI informant after he is arrested for smuggling and trafficking cocaine. While working as an informant, he befriends car executive John DeLorean and learns that he plans on smuggling cocaine in order to dig himself out of nearly $300,000 of debt.
10. “Downsizing”
In “Downsizing,” Norwegian scientist Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen develops the process of downsizing, a scientific means of shrinking organic material to combat overpopulation and the effects of global warming. Paul Safrânek agrees to downsize himself with a push from his friend, Dave (Sudeikis), and sees the good and bad of living as a small, shrunken person.
11. “Epic”
Sudeikis voices the character Professor Radcliffe Bomba in “Epic,” an animated film inspired by the 1996 children
