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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
+6
as Alan Harper 
Hot Shots!
+3
as Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach 
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
+6
as Lenny 
Extended Family
as Jim Kearney 
Pretty in Pink
+7
as Philip F. 'Duckie' Dale 
The Famous Teddy Z
as Teddy Zakalokis 
aka Charlie Sheen
as Self 
Big Time Adolescence
as Reuben 
Shorts
+3
as Dad Thompson 
Cannes Man
+8
as Self 
Holy Man
+5
as Barry 
Tortured
+4
as Brian Mark 
Stay Cool
+13
as Javier 
BRATS
as Self 
Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby
+6
as Richard Pig (voice) 
Ass Backwards
+2
as Dean Morris 
Dudes
+11
as Grant 
Weather Girl
+6
as Charles 
No Small Affair
+2
as Charles Cummings 
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
+4
as Morgan Sewart 
Penn & Teller Get Killed
+2
as Frat Boy #3 
The Little Pageant That Could
as Self (archive footage) 
Hiding Out
+4
as Andrew Morenski / Max Hauser 
Hit by Lightning
+4
as Ricky Miller 
18½
+14
as H.R. 'Bob' Haldeman (voice)