Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau as Daniel Bateman, a Navy SEAL-turned-L.A. cop, who makes up for a lost kidney with an overload of grit, in Warner Brothers' The Replacements - 2000

Biography

Born 10/19/1966

Actor, writer and director Jon Favreau hit unlikely pay dirt when "Swingers" (1996), his low-budget, autobiographical indie about struggling young actors, turned he and co-star/real-life best friend Vince Vaughn into hot property, seemingly overnight. Favreau parlayed his rising profile into a...
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Awards

  • In 1997, received Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Newcomer of the Year

Highlights

  • In 2008, Directed (also produced and appeared briefly in) the big-screen adaptation of "Iron Man"
  • In 2006, Teamed with Vaughn to co-star in the comedy "The Break-Up"
  • In 2006, Voiced Reilly the Beaver in the animated comedy "Open Season"

Family & Companions

  • Madeleine Favreau: mother (Died of leukemia c. 1978)
  • Max Favreau: son (Born July 25, 2001; mother, Joya Tillem)

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