Biography
Jonathan Kolia Favreau (/ΛfΓ¦vroΚ/ FAV-roh; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades including an Emmy Award and two Saturn Awards. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in many films such as Rudy (1993), PCU (1994), Swingers (1996), Very Bad Things (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Replacements (2000), Daredevil (2003), Wimbledon (2004), The Break-Up (2006), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), I Love You, Man (2009), People Like Us (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Chef (2014).
As a filmmaker, Favreau has been significantly involved with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He directed, produced, and appeared as Happy Hogan in the films Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010). He also served as an executive producer or appeared as the character in the films The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
He has also directed the films Elf (2003), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Chef (2014), The Jungle Book (2016), The Lion King (2019), and The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026). Favreau has been known for his work on the Star Wars franchise with Dave Filoni, creating the Disney+ original series The Mandalorian (2019β2023), which Filoni helped develop, with both serving as executive producers. Alongside Filoni, he serves as an executive producer on all of the show's spin-off series, including The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and Skeleton Crew. He produces films under his production company banner, Fairview Entertainment, and also presented the variety series Dinner for Five and the cooking series The Chef Show.
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Filmography (113)
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland
2025
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
Disney 100: Remember That
2023
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
What If...?
2021
The Book of Boba Fett
2021
Alien Xmas
2020
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
The Chef Show
2019
The Mandalorian
2019
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass
2018
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017
A Fan's Guide to Spider-Man Homecoming
2017
Term Life
2016
The Jungle Book
2016
Chelsea
2016
Misery Loves Comedy
2015
Entourage
2015
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
IMDb on the Scene
2015
The Wolf Pack
2014
Chef
2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
The Director's Chair
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Iron Man 3
2013
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Identity Thief
2013
People Like Us
2012
John Carter
2012
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
Zookeeper
2011
Iron Man 2
2010
Brother's Justice
2010
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Conan
2010
I Love You, Man
2009
Couples Retreat
2009
G-Force
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Iron Man
2008
Four Christmases
2008
Wired: The Visual Effects of Iron Man
2008
Open Season 2
2008
I Am 'Iron Man'
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
Open Season
2006
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
2006
The Break-Up
2006
My Name Is Earl
2005
Iconoclasts
2005
Robot Chicken
2005
Wimbledon
2004
Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
2004
The Celebrity Apprentice
2004
Something's Gotta Give
2003
Daredevil
2003
The Big Empty
2003
Elf
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Monk
2002
HypaSpace
2002
Made
2001
Dinner for Five
2001
The Replacements
2000
Love & Sex
2000
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
Rocky Marciano
1999
Family Guy
1999
Rocket Power
1999
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
The Sopranos
1999
Dilbert
1999
Very Bad Things
1998
Deep Impact
1998
The King of Queens
1998
Dogtown
1997
Swingers
1996
Persons Unknown
1996
Just Your Luck
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Notes from Underground
1995
Batman Forever
1995
MADtv
1995
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
PCU
1994
Grandpa's Funeral
1994
Speechless
1994
Friends
1994
Chicago Hope
1994
Rudy
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Fallen Angels
1993
Hoffa
1992
Folks!
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Seinfeld
1989
Jeopardy!
1984
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