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->''"I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of [[LargeHam ninety-nine percent ham]] and one percent water. I was just cooked that way!"''

Michael John Myers [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OC]] (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer born in Scarborough, Ontario; best known for his run on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' from 1989 to 1995 and for playing the title roles in the ''Film/AustinPowers'' and ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' series of films.

Not to be confused with the fictional serial killer [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]].
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!!Partial filmography
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (1989-1995)
* ''Film/WaynesWorld'' (1992)
* ''Wayne's World 2'' (1993)
* ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' (1993)
* Austin Powers series:
** ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]'' (1997)
** ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999)
** ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002)
* ''54'' (1998)
* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' series:
** ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' (2001)
** ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' (2004)
** ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' (2007)
** ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' (2010)
* ''Film/ViewFromTheTop'' (2003)
* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' (2003)
* ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' (2008)
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' (2009)
* ''Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon'' (2013) (directorial debut)
* ''Series/TheGongShow'' (2017 revival on Creator/{{ABC}}; [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/abcs-gong-show-reboot-taps-one-very-interesting-host-998339 hosts as the fictional British TV host]] "Tommy Maitland")
* ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' (2018)
* ''Film/{{Amsterdam|2022}}'' (2022)
* ''Series/ThePentaverate'' (2022)

!!Mike Myers's work provides examples of:
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* ActingForTwo: Not unlike his good pal, Creator/EddieMurphy, every one of the ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies features Myers playing multiple roles. He also plays his own father in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' and no fewer than ''eight'' characters in the ''Axe Murderer'' spin-off, ''Series/ThePentaverate''.
* BetterThanABareBulb: His comedy style is famously self-aware, with characters acknowledging and commenting on the absurdity of the situations they're in.
* CashCowFranchise: Has starred in no fewer than three film franchises, only [[Film/WaynesWorld2 one of which]] has received fewer than three installments.
* DyeingForYourArt: The Cat in the Hat make up was not comfortable to be in, much like Creator/JimCarrey's [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinch]] make-up. In ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'', he really took the meteor globe swung at full speed to his crotch to get an authentic reaction. You can see him flinch seconds before the hit. The Piñata scene in Cat In The Hat took 25 shots and although he told the other children his junk was off limits to them they didn’t listen and bruised his cock and balls with shots from plastic bats
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before ''SNL'', Myers had used the Wayne Campbell character on shows in Canada, including Creator/{{Citytv}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx3FVOpJx9Q City Limits]]'' (which was essentially a prototype for the original format of Creator/MuchMusic) and [[Creator/{{CBC}} the CBC's]] ''It's Only Rock & Roll''.
* FakeBrit: Famously affected a spot-on British accent for Film/AustinPowers (and if we're counting the entire United Kingdom, there's also his equally-impressive Scottish accent as Franchise/{{Shrek}} and Fat Bastard). It helps that, while he was born in Canada, both of his parents are British.
* GroinAttack: A staple of his movies, every character he's played has suffered through these. He even played John Wayne Bobbit on SNL.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Myers is upfront about only doing films that he feels passionate about, which is part of what has caused his many disputes with Hollywood executives, writers, and directors. The whole ''Sprockets'' debacle only came about because he never felt satisfied with any of the scripts he wrote.
* ICallHimMrHappy: Austin Powers refers to his as meat and two veg, twig and berries, wedding tackle and under carriage. Dr. Evil and the Love Guru Maurice Pitka use balls to refer to his gonads. Fat Bastard calls his testicles nuts but and his penis "willie", the whole package as the "mommy daddy button".
* LargeHam: Many of Myers' characters are larger than life. Sometimes literally, even!
* MoneyDearBoy: Myers' well-publicized battle with Creator/UniversalPictures was a result of his attempts to invert this trope - he wanted out of the ''Sprockets'' movie because he felt that the script (which ''he himself wrote'') was not good enough. The trope is played straight with ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' and ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' - he was actually ''legally obligated'' to make the former as part of his settlement with Universal.
* ThePerfectionist: Myers is infamously his own worst critic, which has caused problems when he feels his work doesn't meet his own high standards. Most notably, the planned "Sprockets" movie was cancelled because he was never satisfied with any of the proposed scripts, all of which ''he wrote himself''.
* StarDerailingRole: The mixed to negative reception ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' didn't hurt Myers' career that much. ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' ended up being the straw that botched his acting career, then he took a hiatus to take care of his wife before moving into becoming a painter.
* ViolentGlaswegian: If there's even the faintest opportunity for him to play a belligerent Scot, he's going to take it by the throat.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** He was set to play Music/TheWho's late drummer Keith Moon in a biopic sometime in the late 2000s, but the project crumbled at the end of the decade.
** Mike Myers was planned to star in a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]] [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI hybrid]] film playing the titular character back in 2008 with a 2011 release date but it was scrapped. Test footage for the film was leaked in late 2012.
** Myers was planned to play WesternAnimation/PepeLePew in a [[RogerRabbitEffect similar style]] film starring the titular character himself with Creator/MaxLandis serving as writer. The film was scrapped partly due to [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor Landis being accused by multiple women of sexual assault in 2017]], which is ironic and a mood point seeing the character's controversial nature in later years [[ExiledFromContinuity which led to Warner Bros. abandoning the character in 2021]].

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