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Jonathan Kolia "Jon" Favreau is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the 2003 Christmas comedy film Elf, in which he also portrayed Dr. Ben Leonardo. He also appeared in various other films, such as Rudy, PCU, Swingers, Very Bad Things, Deep Impact, Daredevil, The Break-Up, Four Christmases, Couples Retreat, I Love You, Man, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Chef. Additionally, he voiced Reilly the beaver in the 2006 Sony Pictures animated film Open Season and its 2008 sequel (albeit uncredited), as well as Jerome the Grizzly Bear in Zookeeper.

For Disney, he portrayed Happy Hogan in the Iron Man film trilogy, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, What If...?, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. He also served as director and executive producer for Iron Man and Iron Man 2 (the first Iron Man film having been made before Disney acquired Marvel), as well as an executive producer for The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. Additionally, he voiced Pre Vizsla in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and played Rio Durant in Solo.

Favreau also played Richards in the 2012 Touchstone Pictures drama film People Like Us. In that same year, he had a cameo voice role as Thark Bookie in John Carter.

As the director of the 2016 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, Favreau aimed to amalgamate the spirit of the original Jungle Book with the faithfulness and storytelling of Rudyard Kipling's original tale. He used Kipling's rendition of The Jungle Book as an opportunity to kick-start Neel Sethi's career into stardom. He also directed the 2019 CGI film The Lion King, a remake of the 1994 animated film. He will direct the Star Wars film The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Favreau was named a Disney Legend in 2019 as an executive producer on the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, in which he also voiced Paz Vizsla in the series. Additionally, he is an executive producer on The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and the cancelled Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic.

Filmography[]

Year Film/Television Position
1999 Hercules Voice Actor: Jealousy
2000 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Voice Actor: Crumford Lorax
2001 The Legend of Tarzan Voice Actor: One Punch Mullargan
2008 Iron Man Executive Producer/Role: Happy Hogan
2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Voice Actor: Pre Vizsla
2009 G-Force Voice Actor: Hurley
2010 Iron Man 2 Executive Producer/Role: Happy Hogan
2012 John Carter Role: Thark Bookie
2012 The Avengers Executive Producer
2012 People Like Us Role: Richards
2013 Iron Man 3 Executive Producer/Role: Happy Hogan
2016 The Jungle Book Director/Voice Actor: Pygmy Hog
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming Role: Happy Hogan
2018 Avengers: Infinity War Executive Producer/Role: Happy Hogan (deleted scene)
2018 Solo Voice Actor: Rio Durant
2019 Avengers: Endgame Executive Producer/Role: Happy Hogan
2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home Role: Happy Hogan
2019 The Lion King Director
2019 The Mandalorian Executive Producer/Voice Actor: Paz Vizsla
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home Role: Happy Hogan
2021 The Book of Boba Fett Executive Producer/Voice Actor: Paz Vizsla
TBA Magic Kingdom Director/Story
TBA The Jungle Book 2 Director
TBA The Mandalorian & Grogu Director/Writer/Producer

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