Biography
Jon Rudnitsky is an American actor and comedian who rose to prominence after a brief spell as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live during the show’s 41st season from 2015 to 2016. Since leaving SNL, he has played McWatt in the 2019 miniseries Catch 22.
Age
He is 34 years old as of 22 November 2023. He was born in 1989 in Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Family – Education
His mother, Karen, works as a social worker at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, while his father, Steven, runs a hospitality business. Rudnitsky attended Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan. He then studied acting at the University of Southern California. His maternal uncle is Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States. Rudnitsky is Jewish.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.9 million.
SNL
On August 31, 2015, it was announced that Rudnitsky would join the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player for the forty-first season. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night sketch comedy variety show founded by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol. It airs on NBC and streams on Peacock. Michaels is presently the program’s showrunner. George Carlin presented the show’s premiere on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC’s Saturday Night. The show’s comic sketches, which frequently mock contemporary American culture and politics, are performed by a huge and diverse ensemble of repertory and newer cast members.
A celebrity guest hosts each show, usually delivering the opening monologue and performing in sketches with the cast, with a musical guest providing highlighted performances. An episode typically begins with a cold open skit based on political happenings and concludes with someone breaking character and exclaiming, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” to officially begin the show.
The Big Leap
Rudnitsky was cast as Mike Devries in The Big Leap, a musical comedy-drama television series that premieres on Fox on September 20, 2021. The Big Leap is a drama about a group of varied, down-on-their-luck characters who try to transform their lives by competing in a potentially life-altering reality dance competition.
Home Again
In the 2017 American romantic comedy film Home Again, he played George Appleton, an observant copywriter who bonds with Isabel. Alice Kinney, the daughter of film director John Kinney, is divorced from her husband Austen and returns to her father’s Los Angeles house with her two daughters, Isabel and Rosie. Alice is preparing to launch her own interior design business when she meets three wannabe filmmakers: Harry, George, and Teddy. They hit it off, and Alice drives them to school while Lillian serves breakfast. Alice develops a love interest in Harry, and Teddy assists her in creating a website for her business. George urges Isabel to enter a script-writing contest and offers emotional support as she writes.
Alice ends their possible romantic relationship while they meet with director Justin Miller. Alice is dismayed when her first possible customer treats her as hired help, and she is even more surprised when Austen arrives in Los Angeles. Harry departs the house, dissatisfied with his own job. Teddy’s distaste for Austen’s machinations sparks a brawl. Alice decides to divorce Austen and reconciles with George and Teddy, securing their own apartment.
Alice goes to the lads’ new flat and apologizes for the issue. They meet with a possible investor for Isabel’s school play, but the discussion is cut short due to the client’s suggestions. The family celebrates Isabel’s accomplishment, with Rosie mentioning the actor who played her father.
Catch-22
He appeared as McWatt in the satirical dark comedy television miniseries Catch-22.During World War II, John Yossarian, a bombardier in the US Army Air Forces, is dissatisfied by the growing number of missions he must fly as well as the bureaucratic Catch-22 rule. He decides to become a bombardier to finish the war before beginning training, but he now faces problems such as feigning illness, disabling his intercom, poisoning everyone at the base, and clandestinely shifting the bomb line. The action takes place in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II, with the fictional 256th US Army Air Squadron headquartered on the island of Pianosa performing bombing attacks against Italy. The events take place in a fictionalized Mediterranean theatre, where Yossarian’s life is diametrically opposed to his training and the realities of combat.
Movies
♦ 2011 – A Made Man
♦ 2013 – The Jewish Hunger Games
♦ 2014 – Legends of the Hidden Temple: The Movie
♦ 2014 – Two-Bit Waltz
♦ 2014 – The Great American Comedy Tour
♦ 2015 – Clint Howard Reboots Pippi Longstocking with Milla Jovovich and Fred Willard
♦ 2014 – Patchwork
♦ 2017 – Home Again
♦ 2018 – Summer Days, Summer Nights
♦ 2014 – Set It Up
♦ 2014 – Nobody’s Fool
♦ 2020 – All My Life
♦ 2023 – The Young Wife
♦ 2023 – Under the Boardwalk
♦ 2023 – Wish
♦ 2024 – I Love You Forever
TV Shows
♦ 2012 – Criminal Minds
♦ 2013 – JewDate
♦ 2015–2016 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2017 – Better Briefs
♦ 2017 – Red Oaks
♦ 2017 – Curb Your Enthusiasm
♦ 2017 – Relatively Happy
♦ 2018 – Champions
♦ 2017 – Big Hero 6: The Series
♦ 2019 – Catch-22
♦ 2020 – The Big Leap
♦ 2021 – Curb Your Enthusiasm
♦ 2022 – Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
