Jon Favreau Bio | Wiki
Jon Favreau is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he has appeared in films such as Rudy, PCU, Swingers, Very Bad Things, Deep Impact, The Replacements, Daredevil, and The Break-Up.
Jon has also appeared in films such as Four Christmases, Couples Retreat, I Love You, Man, People Like Us, The Wolf of Wall Street, Chef, and several films created by Marvel Studios. He produces films under his production company banner, Fairview Entertainment, and also presents the television cooking series The Chef Show.
Jon Favreau Age
Jon was born on October 19, 1966, in Flushing, New York, United States. He is 56 years old.
Jon Favreau Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 2 in (Approx. 1.85 m).
Jon Favreau Family
He was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, to his parents Madeleine and Charles Favreau. Jon’s mother was an elementary school teacher who died of leukemia in 1979. His father was a special education teacher. His mother was Jewish and his father is a Catholic of Italian and French-Canadian ancestry.
Jon Favreau Wife
Jon married Joya Tillem, a physician, on November 24, 2000. The couple has a son, Max, and two daughters Madeleine and Brighton Rose. Max appeared as a boy in Iron Man 2. Tillem is the niece of lawyer/talk show host Len Tillem.
Jon Favreau Education
He dropped out of Hebrew school to pursue acting. However, following his mother’s death, both sides of his family worked to ensure Jon had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He graduated from The Bronx High School of Science, a school for gifted students, in 1984 and attended Queens College from 1984 to 1987, before dropping out.
Jon returned to Queens College for a semester in early 1988. He dropped out of college for good and moved to Chicago in the summer of 1988 to pursue a career in comedy. Jon performed at several Chicago improvisational theaters, including the ImprovOlympic and the Improv Institute.
Jon Favreau Movies And Tv Shows
2009 Robot Chicken
2010, 2012–2013 Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2019–present The Chef Show
2019 The Mandalorian
2020 Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian
2021 What If…?
2022 The Book of Boba Fett
2014 Chef
2015 Entourage
2016 The Jungle Book
2016 Term Life
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming
2018 Avengers: Infinity War
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story
2019 Avengers: Endgame
2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home
Jon Favreau Friends
In 1997, Jon appeared on the television sitcom Friends, portraying Pete Becker – Monica Geller’s millionaire boyfriend who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) – for several episodes.
Chef With Jon Favreau
In 2014, he wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in Chef. Jon played a chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic, quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant to operate a food truck with his young son. It co-stars Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, and Dustin Hoffman, along with Robert Downey Jr. in a cameo role.
Jon wrote the script after directing several big-budget films, wanting to go “back to basics” and create a film about cooking. It was well received by critics, who praised the direction, music, writing, story, and performances grossing $45 million against a production budget of $11 million
Jon Favreau Elf
In the fall of 2003, Jon scored his first financial success as a director of the hit comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan, and Peter Dinklage.
Jon Favreau Star Wars | Mandalorian
On March 8, 2018, Lucasfilm announced that Jon would executive produce and write a live-action Star Wars television series, titled The Mandalorian, for Disney+. The series premiered on November 12, 2019, alongside the streaming service and was co-produced by Jon’s production company Golem Creations.
He also lent his voice to the character of Paz Vizsla, who was portrayed by Tait Fletcher. During that same year, he appeared in Solo: A Star Wars Story voicing Rio Durant, “a very cool and important alien character” and member of Beckett’s crew.
Jon Favreau Sopranos
He played himself in The Sopranos episode “D-Girl”, as a Hollywood director who feigns interest in developing mob associate Christopher Moltisanti’s screenplay in order to collect material for his own screenplay
Jon Favreau Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Jon’s estimated net worth is $200 million.
Who Is Jon Favreau
Jon is a 56-year-old American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he has appeared in films such as Rudy, PCU, Swingers, Very Bad Things, Deep Impact, The Replacements, Daredevil, and The Break-Up.