Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse is an American actor.
He is best known for his comedic roles as Fogell in Superbad, Augie Farcques in Role
Models, and as Chris D'Amico in Kick-Ass and its sequel Kick-Ass 2.
Early life Mintz-Plasse was born in Los Angeles, California,
the son of Ellen Mintz, a school counselor, and Ray Plasse, a mailman, and was raised
in West Hills, California.
His father is from a Catholic family of half Polish, as well as French-Canadian and Irish,
descent; his mother is Jewish.
Mintz-Plasse attended El Camino Real High School.
Career Mintz-Plasse acted in drama classes from first
grade until his senior year in high school.
He auditioned with two high school friends for the part of Fogell in Superbad without
professional head shots, before the audition and just took one with his camera phone.
His mother was required by law to be on set while filming his sex scene in the film because
he was only 17 years old at the time.
Upon release, the film earned critical and commercial success, with many critics citing
Mintz-Plasse's performance as one of its highlights and earned him a nomination for MTV Movie
Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
In 2008, Mintz-Plasse next appeared with Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott in David Wain's
film Role Models as Augie Farques, a nerdy teenager obsessed with medieval live action
role-playing games.
He also made a small guest appearance on an episode of David Wain's internet series, Wainy
Days.
He also starred in a series of short comical PSA's for the website Funny or Die.
He then starred in Harold Ramis' film Year One, as a comedic version of the biblical
figure Isaac.
He also appeared in a short film titled The Tale of RJ which ended up becoming the basis
for the television series The Hard Times of RJ Berger.
The next year he voiced Fishlegs in the Academy Award nominated animated film How to Train
Your Dragon.
In April 2010, he appeared in Kick-Ass as the superhero Red Mist, a.k.a.
Chris D'Amico, which was planned to be a minor role until director Matthew Vaughn saw Mintz-Plasse
audition and saw what he was capable of.
His performance earned him a Teen Choice Award and Scream Award nomination.
In May 2010, he guest-starred in an episode of Party Down as Kent, a friend of the character
Roman.
He performed his second voice-over in that month in the film Marmaduke, as the stylized
dog Giuseppe.
The same year he was featured in two music videos, Kid Cudi's Erase Me, featuring Kanye
West and the indie rock band The Soft Pack's Answer to Yourself.
In 2011, Mintz-Plasse appeared in the remake of the 1985 film Fright Night as Evil Ed,
who is the former best friend of Charley Brewster, played by Anton Yelchin.
At first he was reluctant of accepting the role as it was a remake, but after reading
the script and seeing the talent involved he accepted the role.
He and his Fright Night co-star Dave Franco starred in a Funny or Die video called You're
So Hot, where he and Franco compete against each other in a game of "You're So Hot".
In 2012, he lent his voice to the stop motion film, ParaNorman playing a bully named Alvin.
The same year he also had a small role in the film Pitch Perfect as Tommy, the university's
audition launcher.
He then starred in two more shorts with Dave Franco, one a follow up video to You're So
Hot and another titled Would You, which had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.
Mintz-Plasse was supposed to play the lead role in the CBS sitcom Friend Me and even
filmed several episodes, but before the series could air, it was cancelled after series creator
Alan Kirschenbaum tragcially took his own life.
As a promotion for the video game Far Cry 3, he starred in a series of online videos
called The Far Cry Experience, as a fictional version of himself trapped on an island control
by a psychotic pirate lord named Vaas.
He is currently reprises his role of Fishlegs in DreamWorks Dragons television series, which
aired on Cartoon Network.
He reprised his role, Chris D'Amico, now a supervillain known as The Motherfucker, in
the sequel Kick-Ass 2, which was released in August 2013.
Mintz-Plasse found the role to be darker than any other that he had portrayed, and hired
an acting coach to help him with the more intense scenes.
He made his third appearance in a music video in the Unknown Mortal Orchestra's video So
Good At Being In Trouble.
He and his Kick-Ass co-star Chloë Grace Moretz starred in a short segment in the film Movie
43 titled Middle School Date.
He also had small roles in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's This Is the End, playing a
fictional version of himself, and in the romantic comedy film The To Do List, starring Aubrey
Plaza.
In September 2013, Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco set out on a week long road trip across America
to promote LG's "It’s All Possible" campaign for the electronics company’s new flagship
smartphone, the LG G2.
The actors documented their process and broadcast it on Funny or Die.
Mintz-Plasse had a supporting role as college fraternity student Scoonie in the 2014 hit
comedy film Neighbors and reprised his role as Fishleg in the animated sequel How to Train
Your Dragon 2.
Mintz-Plasse plays drums for the rock band The Young Rapscallions.
Filmography Film
Television Web
Discography Music videos
See also References
External links Christopher Mintz-Plasse at the Internet Movie
Database Interview at ARTISTdirect.com
Video interview