Early life

Mintz-Plasse was born in Los Angeles, to Ellen (née Mintz), a school counselor, and Ray Plasse, a mailman. He was raised in West Hills, California. His father is Catholic, of Polish, French-Canadian and Irish descent; his mother is Jewish. Mintz-Plasse attended El Camino Real High School (2003-07).

Career

Mintz-Plasse acted in drama classes from first grade until his senior year in high school. He auditioned with two high school friends for the part of Fogell (aka "McLovin") in his film debut Superbad, without professional head shots, before the audition and just took one with his camera phone. His mother was required by law to be on set while filming his sex scene in the film because he was seventeen at the time. Upon release, the film earned critical and commercial success, with many critics citing Mintz-Plasse's performance as one of its highlights and earned him a nomination for MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.

In 2008, Mintz-Plasse next appeared with Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott in David Wain's film Role Models as Augie Farques, a nerdy teenager obsessed with medieval live action role-playing games. He also made a small guest appearance on an episode of David Wain's internet series, Wainy Days. He then starred in Harold Ramis' film Year One, as a comedic version of the biblical figure Isaac. He also appeared in a short film titled The Tale of RJ which ended up becoming the basis for the television series The Hard Times of RJ Berger.

The next year he voiced Fishlegs in the Academy Award nominated animated film How to Train Your Dragon. In April 2010, he appeared in Kick-Ass as the superhero Red Mist, a.k.a. Chris D'Amico, which was planned to be a minor role until director Matthew Vaughn saw Mintz-Plasse audition and saw what he was capable of. Mintz-Plasse was originally auditioned for Kick-Ass but when the producers believed that his acting was too loud and obnoxious they immediately gave him the role of Red Mist instead. His performance earned him a Teen Choice Award and Scream Award nomination. In May 2010, he guest-starred in an episode of Party Down as Kent, a friend of the character Roman. He performed his second voice-over in that month in the film Marmaduke, as the stylized dog Giuseppe. The same year he was featured in two music videos, Kid Cudi's Erase Me, featuring Kanye West, the indie rock band The Soft Pack's Answer to Yourself.

In 2011, Mintz-Plasse appeared in the remake of the 1985 film Fright Night as Evil Ed, who is the former best friend of Charley Brewster, played by Anton Yelchin. At first he was reluctant to accept the role as it was a remake, but accepted after reading the script and seeing the talent involved.

In 2012, he voiced the bullying student Alvin in the stop motion animated film, ParaNorman. The same year he also had a small role in the film Pitch Perfect as Tommy, the university's audition launcher. He then starred in a short film titled Would You, which was wrriten by his Fright Night co-star Dave Franco and premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. Mintz-Plasse was supposed to play the lead role in the CBS sitcom Friend Me and even filmed several episodes, but before the series could air, it was cancelled after series creator Alan Kirschenbaum tragically took his own life. As a promotion for the video game Far Cry 3, he starred in a series of online videos called The Far Cry Experience, as a fictional version of himself trapped on an island controlled by a psychotic pirate named Vaas. He is currently reprising his role of Fishlegs in DreamWorks Dragons television series, which aired on Cartoon Network.

He reprised his role, Chris D'Amico, in the sequel Kick-Ass 2, which was released in August 2013. Mintz-Plasse found the role to be darker than any other that he had portrayed, and hired an acting coach to help him with the more intense scenes. He made his third appearance in a music video in the Unknown Mortal Orchestra's video So Good At Being In Trouble.

He and his Kick-Ass co-star Chloë Grace Moretz starred in a short segment in the film Movie 43 titled Middle School Date. He also had small role in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's This Is the End, playing a fictional version of himself, and in the romantic comedy film The To Do List, with Aubrey Plaza.

In September 2013, Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco set out on a week-long road trip across America to promote LG's "It’s All Possible" campaign for the electronics company's new flagship smartphone, the LG G2. The actors documented their process and broadcast it on Funny or Die. Mintz-Plasse had a supporting role as college fraternity student Scoonie in the 2014 hit comedy film Neighbors and reprised his role as Fishlegs in the animated sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2.

In 2015, he starred in the music video of Alison Wonderland's U Don't Know.

Mintz-Plasse plays drums for the rock band, The Young Rapscallions.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Superbad	Fogell / McLovin
2008	Role Models	Augie Farcques
2009	Year One	Isaac
2009	The Tale of RJ	RJ	Short film
2010	How to Train Your Dragon	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)
2010	Kick-Ass	Chris D'Amico/Red Mist
2010	Marmaduke	Giuseppe (voice)
2010	Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	Short film
2011	Fright Night	"Evil" Ed Lee
2011	Gift of the Night Fury	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	Short film
2011	Book of Dragons	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	Short film
2012	ParaNorman	Alvin (voice)
2012	Would You	Himself	Short film
2012	Pitch Perfect	Tommy
2013	Movie 43	Mikey	Segment: "Middleschool Date"
2013	This Is the End	Christopher Mintz-Plasse
2013	The To Do List	Duffy
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Chris D'Amico/The Motherfucker
2014	Neighbors	Scoonie
2014	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)
2015	Tag	Jacob
2016	Get a Job	Ethan
2016	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Scoonie
2016	The Masterpiece		Post-production
2016	Trolls	Prince Gristle (voice)	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Wainy Days	Sketchy laborer #2	Episode: "Tough Guy"
2010	Party Down	Kent	Episode: "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday"
2012	Friend Me	Evan	Unaired series
2012-present	DreamWorks Dragons	Fishlegs Ingerman (voice)	66 episodes
2015	Sharing	Grant	Pilot
2016	Sanjay and Craig	Randy Noodman (voice)	Episode: "Dude Snake Nood"
2016	Flaked	Topher	3 episodes
2016	The Great Indoors	Clark

Discography

Music videos

Year	Song	Artist	Notes
2010	Erase Me	Kid Cudi	featuring Kanye West
2010	Answer to Yourself	The Soft Pack
2013	So Good At Being In Trouble	Unknown Mortal Orchestra
2015	U Don't Know	Alison Wonderland	featuring Wayne Coyne
2015	Ready	Kodaline

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2008	MTV Movie Award	Best Breakthrough Performance	Superbad	Nominated
2010	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Villain	Kick-Ass	Nominated
	Scream Awards	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
2014	Young Hollywood Awards	Best Cast Chemistry - Film (shared with Neighbors cast)	Neighbors	Nominated
		Best Threesome (shared with Zac Efron & Dave Franco)		Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]