Jon Cryer
Actor
Biography
Jonathan Niven Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He is the son of actress–singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame as "Duckie" in the 1986 John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he finished writing and producing the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five, which was well received.
Even though he gained some fame by starring in these films, it took several years to find success on television; the shows he had starred in (The Famous Teddy Z, Partners and The Trouble with Normal) did not last very long. In 2003, he was cast as Alan Harper on the CBS hit comedy series Two and a Half Men, opposite Charlie Sheen, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2009. He received three earlier Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the show.
Filmography
Hot Shots!
as Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach 1991
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Lenny 1987
Pretty in Pink
as Philip F. 'Duckie' Dale 1986
Holy Man
as Barry 1998
Big Time Adolescence
as Reuben 2020
Shorts
as Dad Thompson 2009
Ass Backwards
as Dean Morris 2013
Weather Girl
as Charles 2009
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
as Richard Pig (voice) 2008
Tortured
as Brian Mark 2008
No Small Affair
as Charles Cummings 1984
Stay Cool
as Javier 2011
BRATS
as Self 2024
Hiding Out
as Andrew Morenski / Max Hauser 1987
Hit by Lightning
as Ricky Miller 2014
Dudes
as Grant 1987