Jay Baruchel

“	I've never played a character as much as I've played Hiccup. Sometimes it's hard to see where I stop and he begins.	”
	— Jay Baruchel^[1]

Jay Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor who has starred in many movies including Tropic Thunder, I Am Reed Fish, She's Out of My League (with T.J. Miller), Million Dollar Baby, Fetching Cody, The Trotsky, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (with Alfred Molina) and Night at the Museum 2.

Baruchel is the voice of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III in the films How to Train Your Dragon, and How to Train Your Dragon 2 as well as the Cartoon Network series, DreamWorks Dragons: The Series,^[2] and the Netflix Original Series, Dragons: Race to the Edge, and the short films Gift of the Night Fury, Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon, Dawn of the Dragon Racers and the movie short, Book of Dragons. He will be reprising his role as the voice of Hiccup in the upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Biography

Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Robyne (née Ropell), a freelance writer, and Serge Baruchel, an antique dealer. He grew up and, to this day, lives in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâceneighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, and has a younger sister, Taylor. His paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew, while his three other grandparents were from a Christian background (of French, Irish, and German descent). Baruchel has said that he is "probably agnostic".

Career

One of his first major acting roles was on local television series My Hometown in 1996. From 1997 to 1998, he co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids with Elisha Cuthbert. After appearing briefly in Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning Almost Famous, Baruchel won the role of Steven Karp on Judd Apatow's acclaimed yet short-lived television series Undeclared, where he starred alongside Seth Rogen, Carla Gallo, Charlie Hunnam, and Monica Keena. He then appeared with James Van Der Beek in Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction.

In 2004, Baruchel played boxing hopeful Danger Barch in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. Baruchel then starred in Nemesis Game and Fetching Cody, before appearing opposite Don Johnson on the WB's Just Legal in 2005, and guest-starring on the CBS drama Numb3rs in 2006.

Baruchel appeared in the films Knocked Up (which reunited him with Judd Apatow, Jason Segel, and Seth Rogen), I'm Reed Fish, Just Buried, and the Ben Stiller-directed Tropic Thunder, alongside Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan and Robert Downey, Jr. He co-starred with Seth Rogen in the 2007 trailer for Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, created by Rogen and Evan Goldberg as a strategy to garner interest and funding for a similar, larger-scale project (later made in 2013 as This Is the End). In 2008, he appeared in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. He also made a brief appearance in Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian.

In 2010, Baruchel starred in the films The Trotsky, DreamWorks' She's Out of My League (opposite Alice Eve), and the live-action Disney adaptation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. He also voiced the starring role in the acclaimed animated feature, How to Train Your Dragon, a role he has subsequently continued throughout the franchise, including its television series. Also in 2010, he played two supporting characters in the Canadian comedy series The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour. He developed the screenplay for Goon, with Evan Goldberg, playing Johnny Klutz, a character of his own creation. Goon co-stars Seann William Scott and fellow Canadian actor, Eugene Levy. Baruchel will also star in and direct the comedy/horror/slasher film Pig.

Baruchel also appeared in the 2010 Adidas Originals ad campaign, "Cantina", in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup and in video clips for Canadian prog-rockers Rush's 2012–13 Clockwork Angels tour.

In July 2012, he appeared in the music video for the song "Toxsik Waltz" by rapper Necro. In the summer of 2013, he starred in the hit apocalyptic comedy This Is the End and in 2014, he appeared in the RoboCop remake and reprised his role as Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Baruchel is in the process of writing the sequel to Goon.

In July 2014, it was announced that Baruchel will be starring in the FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman which premiered in January 2015.

Selected Filmography

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1999	Who Gets the House?	Jonathan	Film
1999	Running Home	Kid #2
2000	Almost Famous	Vic Munoz
2002	The Rules of Attraction	Harry
2002	Edgar and Jane	Director Writer Producer	Short film
2003	Nemesis Game	Jeremy Curran	Film
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Danger Barch
2005	Fetching Cody	Art Frankel
2006	I'm Reed Fish	Reed Fish
2007	Knocked Up	Jay
	Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse	Jay Baruchel Writer	Short film
	Just Buried	Oliver Whynacht	Film
2008	Real Time	Andy Hayes
	Tropic Thunder	Kevin Sandusky
	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Tal Hanson
2009	Fanboys	Windows
	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Sailor Joey Motorola
	The Trotsky	Leon
2010	She's Out of My League	Kirk Kettner
	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	Dave Stutler
	Good Neighbours	Victor
2011	Goon	Pat Writer Producer
2012	Cosmopolis	Shiner
2013	This Is the End	Himself Co-producer
2013	The Art of the Steal	Francie
2014	RoboCop	Tom Pope
2014	Don Peyote	Bates
2016	Lovesick	Mark
2016	Goon: Last of the Enforcers	Pat Director Writer
2019	Untitled Lone Scherfig Project		Post-production;

Dragons Franchise Filmography

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2010	How to Train Your Dragon	Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III	Feature film
2010	Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon		Short film
2011	Book of Dragons		Short film
2011	Gift of the Night Fury		Holiday special; short film
2013–2014	DreamWorks Dragons		Defenders of Berk
2013–2014	DreamWorks Dragons		Riders of Berk
2014	How to Train Your Dragon 2		Feature film
2014	Dawn of the Dragon Racers		Short film
2015	Dragons: Race to the Edge		Season 1
2016			Season 2
2016			Season 3
2017			Season 4
2017			Season 5
2018			Season 6
2019	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World		Feature film
2019	Dreamworks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders		Game

Trivia

According to producer Douglas Sloan, Jay Baruchel was very emphatic that no one would play Hiccup but him, and that he was happy to come aboard and to voice Hiccup in the TV series.^[3]