Adam DeVine

DeVine was born in Waterloo, Iowa,[4][1][5] the son of Dennis and Penny Devine.[1] He was raised in Omaha, Nebraska.[6] He attended Orange Coast College, along with friend and future co-star Blake Anderson.[7] He later moved to Los Angeles, where he began working as a stand-up comedian and actor.[8][9]

In June 1995 when he was 11, DeVine was walking his bicycle across a road in Omaha. After he waited for three cement trucks to pass, a fourth truck, previously blocked by opposing traffic struck him while he was in the street. He went under the first two wheels of the 42-ton truck and slid 500 feet. He was knocked unconscious, suffered acute shock and fell into a coma. He was rushed to intensive care, where he woke up two weeks later. He had broken all the bones in both of his legs, had a collapsed lung, developed multiple infections, and it was unknown whether he would ever walk again. Over several years, he had 26 surgeries and spent much of the time in a wheelchair. Due to the extent of his injuries, DeVine was at very high risk of having to have his legs amputated, and having multiple organ failure. It was later discovered that the reason he was not killed was because his bicycle took the full force of the truck.[10]

DeVine regained full mobility but still has extensive scarring on his legs.[11][12] He said of the accident, "It was really tough because I had to relearn how to walk, stand up, sit up and everything. The legs were totally mangled. I think that experience helped me realize that anything is possible."[10] To pass the time, he would call into his local radio station and impersonate celebrities to entertain himself and others. Upon returning to school, he experienced bullying, but told jokes as a way to deflect attention away from his injuries. He later said that all of this contributed to how he saw comedy as a way of bringing people together.

In 2006, DeVine and friends Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck formed the sketch-comedy group Mail Order Comedy. Although they toured together live, they found greater success on websites such as Myspace and YouTube. In April 2008, the G4 series Attack of the Show! featured "Wizards Never Die", a music video by Mail Order Comedy (as The Wizards).[9] Purple Magic, a music album by The Wizards containing 14 tracks, was released on April 1, 2009.[13] Comedy Central's original series Workaholics premiered on April 6, 2011, and stars DeVine, Anderson, and Holm and co-stars Newacheck, all of whom also serve as series creators and executive producers.

DeVine had small roles in Mama's Boy (2007) and National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2009). He had a recurring role on the television series Samantha Who?. He also appeared on an episode of the Fox show Traffic Light (2011). In season 4 of Community (2013), he played a small role as William Winger, Jr., Jeff's half-brother. In the first episode of Arrested Development's fourth season, he played an airport ticket attendant alongside his Workaholics co-stars. He co-starred as Bumper Allen in the 2012 musical comedy film Pitch Perfect. For this performance, he won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain and earned one nomination for Choice Movie Breakout.[14][15] He reprised the role of Bumper in the film's sequel Pitch Perfect 2 (2015).

DeVine has appeared in the SimCity video game trailers as The Mayor. DeVine is the voice artist for the character Pizza Steve in the Cartoon Network animated series Uncle Grandpa, which premiered on September 2, 2013. He stars in his own Comedy Central series, Adam DeVine's House Party, which debuted in October 2013.[16] He also appears in a recurring role in seasons 5, 6 and 7 of the ABC network sitcom Modern Family as Andy, the Pritchett family's nanny.[17] In 2015, he performed in a supporting role, playing Kurt, in the slasher film The Final Girls.[18] In 2016, he starred alongside Zac Efron, playing brothers, in the comedy film Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.[19] DeVine also made a cameo appearance in the video for the 2016 Blink-182 song "She's Out of Her Mind".

On November 2, 2016, DeVine was cast as the lead of Walt Disney Pictures family-film Magic Camp, alongside Jeffrey Tambor and Gillian Jacobs. DeVine plays Andy Duckerman, a failed magician who goes back to the camp of his youth to mentor a rag-tag bunch of magicians.[20] Principal photography began in January 2017 around Los Angeles.[21] The film was released on August 14, 2020.[22]

In 2018, DeVine played the lead, Noah Ashby, in the romantic comedy When We First Met, which he also co-wrote.[23] His co-stars include Alexandra Daddario, Shelley Hennig and Robbie Amell. Also that year, DeVine, Anderson, and Holm starred in the film Game Over, Man!, with Newacheck directing and Newacheck and Seth Rogen among its producers.[24] On August 18, 2019 DeVine debuted as Kelvin Gemstone in the HBO comedy television series The Righteous Gemstones alongside John Goodman, Danny McBride, and Edi Patterson. Created by McBride, the series follows a world-famous yet dysfunctional family of televangelists. In September 2019, HBO renewed the series for a second season.

On June 20, 2019, at Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen he said that he was willing to return to Pitch Perfect and Modern Family again.[25]

In 2019, DeVine starred alongside Rebel Wilson and Liam Hemsworth in the romantic comedy/parody Isn't It Romantic. The film marked the fourth time that DeVine and Wilson have played love interests, after Workaholics, Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.[26]

It was announced on July 13, 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con that DeVine and Blake Anderson would executive produce and provide voices for the animated adaptation of Gilbert Shelton's classic underground comic book The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.[27]

DeVine is a supporter of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, a not-for-profit organization that raises funds for children's hospitals across the U.S. As he was treated by a children's hospital as a child, he attends charity events and visits the children, with his story of survival providing comfort to the patients and their parents.[28]

DeVine regularly takes part in USO tours, providing entertainment for military personnel across the world and describes it as "the most rewarding experience of [his] life".[29]

After meeting on the set of The Final Girls in 2014, DeVine began dating Chloe Bridges in February 2015.[30][31] On October 24, 2019, DeVine revealed via Instagram that he had become engaged to Bridges after four years of dating.[32]

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