Steve Carell has no shortage of iconic characters. Whether he’s delivering the weather forecast as Brick Tamland in the Anchorman movies, enacting a world-dominating plot as Gru in the animated Despicable Me franchise, or lovingly terrorizing his Dunder Mifflin employees as Michael Scott in The Office, Carell has played a role for every kind of comedy lover. He’ll add another to his portfolio in the new series Rooster, in which he plays a professor, author, and struggling father.
After getting his start as a cast member on The Dana Carvey Show and a correspondent on The Daily Show, Carell starred as paper company middle manager Michael Scott for seven seasons of the workplace sitcom The Office, for which he won a Golden Globe. The series launched Carell into the comedy stratosphere, and he’d go on to lead flicks like Evan Almighty; Get Smart; Date Night; and Crazy, Stupid, Love (more on that below). But the actor also has his fair share of more serious roles in movies like Little Miss Sunshine; Foxcatcher (for which he was nominated for an Oscar); The Big Short; Beautiful Boy; and Mountainhead, as well as in series like The Morning Show and The Patient. Keep reading to learn more about Carell’s movies and series on Netflix.
Based on the 1981 film of the same name by writer-director Alan Alda, The Four Seasons follows three couples — Nick and Anne (Carell and Kerri Kenney-Silver), Kate and Jack (Tina Fey and Will Forte), and Danny and Claude (Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani) — as they vacation together through each season of the year. When their longtime friend group undergoes a major shift, they’re forced to take a closer look at both their romantic and platonic relationships.
This two-season workplace comedy stars Carell as General Mark R. Naird, chief of operations for Space Force, the sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces. One year into his tumultuous tenure, Mark and his team, including prickly chief scientist Dr. Adrian Mallory (John Malkovich) and excitable social media director F. Tony Scarapiducci (Ben Schwartz), are working to launch a new satellite, Epsilon 6, into orbit. When their plans quickly go awry, the group is forced to think on their feet — with potentially disastrous consequences. Can Mark make this fledgling operation work, or will his political opponents and other naysayers shut everything down before they’ve really begun? Diana Silvers (The Abandons), Tawny Newsome (True Story), Jimmy O. Yang (Love Hard), Don Lake (Mascots), Tim Meadows (Hubie Halloween), and Lisa Kudrow (No Good Deed) also star.
This part live-action, part-animated drama, directed by Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away), is inspired by Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 documentary Marwencol and stars Carell as Mark Hogancamp, a reclusive artist who creates his own world to escape the horrors of his real life. Suffering from PTSD after he’s beaten nearly to death by a group of neo-Nazis, Mark fashions a toy village called Marwen in order to cope. The tiny town — which is inhabited by dolls, one of whom is a version of Mark — is plagued by assailants but protected by women, many of whom are inspired by real people in Mark’s life, including a veteran he meets in physical therapy (Janelle Monáe) and his kind new neighbor (Leslie Mann). As Mark is forced to face his attackers during their trial, he leans on his art and his growing community to try and make it through. Diane Kruger (The Infiltrator), Merritt Wever (Godless), Eiza González (3 Body Problem), and Gwendoline Christie (Wednesday) also star.
