Jon Rudnitsky

 ( 1989 Births ) 

Jon Rudnitsky (born November 22, 1989) is an American comedian and actor. First breaking through as a performer with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Rudnitsky garnered widespread attention for his brief stint as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live during the show's 41st season between 2015 and 2016. Since his departure from SNL, he has also played McWatt in the 2019 miniseries Catch-22.

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Early life Rudnitsky is a native of Harrington Park, New Jersey. His mother, Karen, is a social worker at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and his father, Steven, is a businessman in the hospitality industry.

Rudnitsky attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.Sheridan, Angeline. "Here's What's Buzzing in Bergen This Week", Macaroni Kid Northeast Bergen, September 3, 2015. Accessed September 8, 2015. "NBC recently announced the addition of 25 year old Jon Rudnitsky as a featured player on Saturday Night Live. Rudnitsky, who grew up in Harrington Park, is a stand-up comedian who got his start at Northern Valley Old Tappan High School." He subsequently studied acting at the University of Southern California. His maternal uncle is Michael Oren, the former Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Rudnitsky is Jewish.

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Career Rudnitsky performed with the Groundlings. On August 31, 2015, it was announced that Rudnitsky would join the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player for the show's 41st season. In the third episode of that season, Rudnitsky portrayed Anderson Cooper in a sketch, acting as moderator for a Democratic presidential debate, for which he received criticism from Cooper. He has also done impressions of Wolf Blitzer, John Mayer, Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, and Vladimir Putin (in a dress rehearsal sketch on the season 41 episode hosted by Donald Trump), while also doing a Dirty Dancing sketch for Weekend Update, which was seen as one of his high points for the season. On August 9, 2016, it was reported that Rudnitsky would not be returning to the show for the following season.

In 2017, Rudnitsky starred alongside Reese Witherspoon in the romantic comedy film Home Again. In 2018, he played Mike in the Netflix release Set It Up.

He starred alongside Jane Lynch and Genevieve Angelson in the NBC pilot Relatively Happy, which was not picked up.

In March 2020, Rudnitsky was cast as Mike Devries in the musical comedy-drama television series The Big Leap, which premiered on Fox on September 20, 2021.

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Filmography

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Film

2014	Two-Bit Waltz	The Boy
2015	Clint Howard Reboots Pippi Longstocking with Milla Jovovich and Fred Willard	Assius	Short film
	Patchwork	Lance
2017	Home Again	George
2018	Summer Days, Summer Nights	Mello
	Set It Up	Mike
	Nobody's Fool	Benji
2020	All My Life	Chris (Bartender)
2023	The Young Wife	Dave
	Under the Boardwalk	Jimmy	Voice
	Wish	Dario	Voice
2024	I Love You Forever	Lucas
	Stealing Pulp Fiction	Jonathan
	Red One	Influencer at Mall
	Our Little Secret	Cameron
TBA		TBA	Post-production

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Television

2012	Criminal Minds	Kyle Owens	Episode: "Perennials"
2013	JewDate	Jake	Episode: "Jenga!"
2015–2016	Saturday Night Live	Various	Featured player
2017	Better Briefs	Kyle	Episode: "Locked Out in Your Underwear"
	Red Oaks	Brett	Episode: "Paroled"
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Waiter	Episode: "Namaste"; uncredited
	Relatively Happy	Henry Pepper	TV pilot
2018	Champions	Asher	Recurring role
		Ned Ludd (voice)	3 episodes
2019	Catch-22	McWatt	Miniseries
2020	The Big Leap	Mike	Main role
2021	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Asa	Episode: "Irma Kostroski"
2022	Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous	Cyrus (voice)	Guest role: Season 5

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Categories: 1989 Births, Living People, 21st-century American Comedians, 21st-century American Jews, 21st-century American Male Actors, American Impressionists, American Male Comedians, American Male Film Actors, American Male Television Actors, American Male Voice Actors, American Sketch Comedians, American Stand-up Comedians, Comedians From Bergen County, New Jersey, Jewish American Comedians, Jewish American Male Actors, Jewish Male Comedians, Male Actors From Bergen County, New Jersey, Northern Valley Regional High School At Old Tappan Alumni, People From Harrington Park, New Jersey, Usc School Of Dramatic Arts Alumni

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