Nicholas Stoller Biography

Nicholas Stoller (born 19 March 1976) is an English-American filmmaker. He is known mainly for directing the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, its 2010 spin-off/sequel, Get Him to the Greek, and co-writing and executive producing The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted.

Life and career

Stoller was born in London, England, and raised in Miami, Florida, United States with his brother Matt Stoller. His mother, Phyllis, is a travel tour operator, and his father, Eric C. Stoller, is a bank executive. Stoller was raised Jewish. He attended high school at St. Paul's, a New Hampshire boarding school. He went on to attend Harvard College and wrote for the comedy publication The Harvard Lampoon, and played for the improv comedy troupe The Immediate Gratification Players while an undergraduate.

From 2000 to 2001, Stoller wrote for Judd Apatow's short-lived Fox television series Undeclared and later co-wrote, again with Apatow, the 2005 comedy Fun with Dick and Jane. Stoller"?s directorial debut, the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is a romantic comedy starring Jason Segel, Mila Kunis, Jonah Hill, Kristen Bell, Bill Hader and Russell Brand. The film was produced by Apatow Productions and was released by Universal on 18 April 2008.

In 2007, he wrote a single-camera comedy about a new teacher taking a job at the boarding school he once attended. He wrote Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey; the film was produced by Richard Zanuck and David Heyman. Stoller next wrote and directed a new film for Universal and Apatow Productions titled Get Him to the Greek. The film reteamed Stoller and Apatow with Forgetting Sarah Marshall co-stars Jonah Hill and Russell Brand. The film premiered on 25 May 2010 and opened in theaters on 4 June 2010.

In 2008, Stoller and Segel co-wrote The Muppets, the latest film incarnation to feature the characters in nearly 12 years. The film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and released on November 23, 2011. After the film's success, Stoller and the film's director, James Bobin, wrote Muppets Most Wanted, a semi-sequel to the film.

Stoller also directed The Five-Year Engagement (2012), which he co-wrote with Jason Segel, who also starred. Apatow Productions produced the picture, which is about the ups and downs of a couple's five-year engagement. In 2014, Stoller directed the film Neighbors and shared a screenwriting credit on Sex Tape.

Stoller met Francesca Delbanco (daughter of writer Nicholas Delbanco and granddaughter of cellist Bernard Greenhouse) at a playwriting workshop for Harvard graduates in 2001. They married in a Jewish ceremony in September 2005. They have two daughters.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane	Writer
2007	Blades of Glory	Soundtrack	Song: Blades of Glory
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Director
2008	Yes Man	Writer
2009	Adventureland	Thanks
2010	Gulliver's Travels	Writer
2010	Get Him to the Greek	Director, Writer, Producer
2011	The Muppets	Writer, Executive Producer
2012	The Five-Year Engagement	Director, Writer, Producer
2013	Turbo	Additional Screenplay Material
2014	Neighbors	Director
2014	Muppets Most Wanted	Writer, Executive Producer
2014	Sex Tape	Writer
2016	Zoolander No. 2	Writer
2016	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Director, Writer	Post-production
2016	Storks	Director, Writer, Producer
TBA	Captain Underpants	Writer

TV

Year	TV Series	Role	Notes
2000	Strangers with Candy	Writer	Episode: #2.10: A Price Too High for Riches
2001-2002	Undeclared	Writer, Story Editor	Various Episodes
2010	In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber	Himself	Episode: Dennis Quaid/Damon Wayans/Nicholas Stoller
2010-2014	Made in Hollywood	Himself	Episodes: #5.28 and #9.28
2010-2014	Last Call with Carson Daly	Himself	Episodes: Episode dated 26 May 2010 and Nicholas Stoller/Theo Von/Cerebral Ballzy
2012	Entry Level	Director, Writer, Executive Producer	TV Movie
2014	IMDb: What to Watch	Himself	Episode: Neighbors
2014	Just Seen It	Himself	Episode: Neighbors, Interview with Nicholas Stoller, Devil's Knot, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2015	The Carmichael Show	Writer