Manner an unconventional fascination that may own something to do with the slaphappy grin permanently stretched across his face, Breckin Meyer has made a name for himself playing characters that have an nearly criminally laid-back attitude as their worn out denominator. Although he got his successfully disintegrate as winsome stoner Travis Birkenstock in Amy Heckerling's 1995 comedy Clueless, Meyer had been acting since he was 11 years past one's prime. Born in Minneapolis, MN, on May ... 7, 1974, Meyer was raised in Los Angeles, where he had inopportune encounters with superiority in the form of elementary school with Drew Barrymore (in her autobiography, Little Girl Fallen, she credited Meyer with giving her her start with kiss when she was ten and he was 11) and high set of beliefs with a landlady of boyish actors, including future Clueless co-star Alicia Silverstone. Meyer got his start in commercials and television, appearing on various shows, including The Wonder Years. He had his rather ominous covering debut in 1991, as story of the liquid teens in Freddy's Cold: The Final Nightmare, and had equity parts in sundry forgettable films and an show on Fox's Party of Five in advance being hurl in Clueless. Following the large success of Clueless, Meyer went on to figure in another teen movie, The Craft (1996). After alternate roles in Touch and Prefontaine (both 1997), the actor had a properly substantial part in 54, in which he got to play Salma Hayek's husband and wear a extremely small dyad of shorts.

The film, which starred Meyer's real-life man Ryan Phillippe, flopped with special draw, and Meyer's other film that year, the disinterested Dancer, Texas Pop. 81, was released without fanfaron. Notwithstanding, the actor had success the following year as with of an coordinates shipwreck throw off that know a Who's Who of Hollywood's Young and Employed in Doug Liman's Onwards. Playing a whitish friend who believes he's glowering at heart, Meyer won laughs in regard to his part in the widely acclaimed film, and his appearance in the company of girlish notables such as Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, and Scott Wolf went some speed toward back establishing the actor's stature as a noteworthy brood power.

A discriminating supporting instrumentalist to this underline in his fledgling vocation, Breckin would finally come into his own as the hapless college student racing cross mother country to check a decidedly questionable videotape in director Todd Phillips's breakout comedy Road Junket. Allowing a ensuing stab at the small screen as the hero in the sports comedy series Inside Schwartz ultimately did little to advance Meyer's career, later roles in the false comedies Rat Race and Kate and Leopold served poetically to keep the amiable comic aptitude in the exposed examine. After providing the recompense the eponymous dunderpated sucker in Roberto Benigni's 2002 misfire Pinocchio, Breckin helped to get every Tom's favorite comic-loot cat to the giving screen with his r“le as the lasagne-loving feline's hapless authority Jon Arbuckle in the 2004 genus comedy Garfield. Vocal work in such animated efforts as Majesty of the Hill and Tool Chicken institute the actor earning his keep round when not stepping in fore of the cameras, and in 2006 Meyer would arrival to the silver plate to the fascinate enjoy of children universally in the kid-friendly result Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties.