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Jon Cryer
Known for: ActingJonathan 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 26
Two and a Half Men
as Alan Harper 
Hot Shots!
as Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach 
Extended Family
as Jim Kearney 
Shorts
as Dad Thompson 
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Lenny 
Pretty in Pink
as Philip F. 'Duckie' Dale 
The Famous Teddy Z
as Teddy Zakalokis 
aka Charlie Sheen
as Self 
BRATS
as Self 
Big Time Adolescence
as Reuben 
Cannes Man
as Self 
Holy Man
as Barry 
Tortured
as Brian Mark 
Stay Cool
as Javier 
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
as Richard Pig (voice) 
Ass Backwards
as Dean Morris 
Dudes
as Grant 
Weather Girl
as Charles 
No Small Affair
as Charles Cummings 
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
as Morgan Sewart 
Penn & Teller Get Killed
as Frat Boy #3 
The Little Pageant That Could
as Self (archive footage) 
Hiding Out
as Andrew Morenski / Max Hauser 
Hit by Lightning
as Ricky Miller 
18½
as H.R. 'Bob' Haldeman (voice)