Jon Cryer Wins 2009 Emmy Award For Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

By: Sep. 20, 2009
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Jon Cryer has won the 2009 Emmy Award For Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Jonathan "Jon" Cryer is an Emmy winning actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress/singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut by in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame by starring as "Duckie" in the John Hughes hit film Pretty in Pink.

In 2003, he was cast to portray Alan Harper on the CBS hit comedy series Two and a Half Men, opposite Charlie Sheen. The actor had received four Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the show before his win tonight.

Two and a Half Men premiered on CBS on Monday, September 22, 2003. The series simulcasts in Canada on A stations. The sitcom stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones. The show is about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie; his uptight brother, Alan; and Charlie's (at the start of the series) 10-year-old nephew, Jake. Charlie's free-wheeling life is complicated and altered when his brother gets divorced and moves into his beach-front house. There have been six seasons of Two and a Half Men. On March 18, 2009, CBS renewed the show for an additional three seasons.

His stage credits include: Brighton Beach Memoirs [Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1983
Eugene Jerome [Replacement]
Eugene Jerome (Standby) [Replacement]

 


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