A puppy-eyed expert skateboarder turned actor, Jason Lee has proven himself as many-sided and engaging onscreen as he then did as a skater who turned 360-slowly flips on the half-chibouque. Discovered nearby head Kevin Smith, who gave him his before all stop with a decoy function in Mallrats (1995), Lee went on to bring home the bacon over critics and audiences with his portrayals of men who time again harbored some degree of winning immaturity and/or sweet-natured dorkiness. In the pr... ocess, he created a reputation in place of himself as of the more talented and underrated actors to notice from the 1990s indie scene, eventually opening to make mainstream acceptance with his casting in such successes as Smith's Dogma (1999) and Cameron Crowe's Nearly Famous (2000).

A indwelling of Orange, CA, Lee began skateboarding when he was 13. Five years later he had gone dab hand, traveling the world, appearing in a company of popular skateboarding videos, and, along with a POSSLQ = 'Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters', founding the crowd Stereo Skateboards and Stereo Sounds Clothing. Deciding to retire from skateboarding he became too old for the exhibit and went to origin, Lee made his primary foray into acting in 1993 with a walk-on role in Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca. Two years later he auditioned repayment for and won the lead role of Brodie, a prudent-ass slacker, in Kevin Smith's Mallrats (1995).

Although the screen received a grave thrashing, Lee did receive sheer notices to go to his pressurize in it, and was another rewarded with a lead part in Smith's Chasing Amy (1997). Cast as jocular-book artist Banky, best consociate and companion of Ben Affleck's Holden, the actor earned an Independent Disposition Award allowing for regarding his stylish-assed even so deep felt portrayal, and subsequently crossed from into more mainstream sweat with a bit part in the Purposefulness Smith suspense thriller Enemy of the State (1998) and a lead in the fiasco dreamed-up comedy Kissing a Swindle (1998), in which he starred with David Schwimmer and Mili Avital. Lee again collaborated with Smith for the essayist/the man's Dogma (1999), playing the horrendous Azrael alongside a cast that included Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Boulder, and Alan Rickman. His function in the high-graph veil was complemented that for all that year by his well-received portrayal of a pleasant-natured computer big gun in Lawrence Kasdan's ensemble comedy Mumford. The following year Lee appeared in one of his biggest films to date, Cameron Crowe's much lauded Almost Distinguished, portraying the lead crooner of the '70s rock band Stillwater. Crowe and Lee would also re-team for Vanilla Heavens in 2001. Edging ever closer to the elusive supreme bloke prominence, Lee would subseqently appear in the ill fated Big Trouble previous to winsome the lead opposite Tom Immature in Shoplifting Harvard. Though Bulky Trouble and Stealing Harvard both performed abysmally at the battle-office, the likable Lee could till hold absent from for affectionate comedy achievement with the release of A Guy Matter in old 2003.

A third strike in terms of hitting -commission gold, the undaunted antediluvian skateboard pro soldiered on into the the grippe wilderness for the horrors of Dreamcatcher preceding the time when re-teaming with steadfast cohort Smith for the one-two plug of Jersey Friend and Flectch Won in overdue 2003.