- Born
- Birth nameMichael John Myers
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Michael John Myers was born in 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario, to Alice E. (Hind), an officer supervisor, and Eric Myers, an insurance agent. His parents were both English, and had served in the Royal Air Force and British Army, respectively.
Myers' television career really started in 1988, when he joined Saturday Night Live (1975), where he spent six seasons. He brought to life many memorable characters, such as Dieter and Wayne Cambell. His major movies include Wayne's World (1992), Wayne's World 2 (1993), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), the Austin Powers movies and The Cat in the Hat (2003).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Aaron Dodd <powersonline@yahoo.com>
- SpousesKelly Tisdale(November 22, 2010 - present) (3 children)Robin Ruzan(May 23, 1993 - August 9, 2006) (divorced)
- ChildrenSpike MyersSunday Molly Myers
- ParentsEric MyersAlice Myers
- RelativesSibling(Sibling)Sibling(Sibling)
- Frequently appears wearing only his underpants in films.
- Mimicking a Scottish accent.
- Often plays multiple characters in films.
- He got hired for Second City the day he graduated from high school. He had his last exam at 9, his audition at noon, and he got hired at 3.
- Owns the last letter ever written by Beatles singer George Harrison, given to him very shortly after Harrison's death and while Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) was in production. The letter compliments him on the Austin Powers movies and asks him for a Mini Me doll. He had it framed immediately and looks at it every day, stating that its one of the most incredible things that has ever happened to him.
- Has a street named after him in Scarborough, Ontario: Mike Myers Drive.
- As a teenager, he would act out his Wayne character to girls at parties.
- [June 1999] Austin Powers was born out of trying to celebrate my father's life. My father's favorites were mine -- Peter Sellers, Monty Python, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore . . . my dad was a guy who loved to be silly; he had a highly prized sense of humor. When I would bring friends home to play table hockey in the basement, if my dad didn't think they were funny, he wouldn't let them in the house. "They can't come around", he'd say. :They're not bloody funny!"
- I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
- As a people, the English find male partial nudity and cross-dressing to be very funny. It's definitely a color on our palette, and I follow in that tradition.
- Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
- [when asked who some of his comic heroes were] Peter Sellers, Dan Aykroyd, the whole original SNL [Saturday Night Live (1975)] cast. Lorne Michaels is a hero of mine. I did a project on him in grade eight. He's a Canadian hero. He's a man of impeccable taste. And Gilda Radner was a big hero of mine.
- Shrek 2 (2004) - $10,000,000
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) - $25,000,000 against 21% of the film's gross
- Shrek (2001) - $3,000,000
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - $7,000,000
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) - $3,000,000
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