Date Night

…starred opposite Tina Fey in Date Night, a comedy about mistaken identity, and he played a cheerfully oblivious misfit in the screwball comedy Dinner for Schmucks. That year he also provided the voice of Gru, a super-villain who plots to steal the Moon, in the animated Despicable Me; he reprised…

…Salvation (2009), and the comedy Date Night (2010). From 2011 to 2014 Common had a starring role as a formerly enslaved person working on the transcontinental railroad in the TV series Hell on Wheels. He subsequently appeared in such movies as Ava DuVernay’s biographical drama Selma (2014), the action adventure…

…SNL costar Amy Poehler, and Date Night (2010), an action comedy about mistaken identities that paired her with Steve Carell. She appeared in a supporting role in The Invention of Lying (2009), and she lent her voice to the animated films Ponyo—the English version of Miyazaki Hayao’s Gake no ue…

…Stan (2007) featuring Rob Schneider, Date Night (2010) starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey, and Iron Man 2 (2010) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and in such TV series as Beyond the Break (2006–07) and Chuck (2010).

…It (2009), MacGruber (2010), and Date Night (2010).