Middleditch was born on March 10, 1982, in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.[6] His parents are British.[7] He was cast in a play in eighth grade which he said "changed everything" for him. He discovered improv in grade school from performing with Theatresports.[6] His first job was acting in Canadian Heritage Plays for his hometown.[8]
He studied theatre at the University of Victoria before moving to Toronto, where he auditioned for and enrolled in George Brown Theatre School, but never began his course.[9] He instead opted to make sketches on his own and worked at a New Balance store for an income.[6] He relocated to Chicago, where he took classes at The Second City and iO Theater, while also performing regularly.[6] He was a founding member in 2005 of The Improvised Shakespeare Company.[10] Due to immigration issues, he worked various cash jobs until Charna Halpern sponsored him to get his work visa.[6] While performing on a Second City cruise, he got an audition for Saturday Night Live.[6] Though he did not get cast, the routine he used in his audition landed him a network holding deal and he moved to New York City.[6]
While living in New York City, Middleditch began acting in commercials. In 2007 a sketch video for Chicken McNuggets he made with Fernando Sosa in Chicago was purchased by McDonald's and used as a commercial.[6][11] He appeared in the 2009 romantic comedy Splinterheads, portraying the lead role of Justin Frost.[12] On March 25, 2010, he joined a CBS pilot, Hitched, written by Josh Schwartz and directed by Rob Greenberg.[13] On May 5, 2011, Middleditch made his first appearance in Jake and Amir, in the episode "Jake and Amir: Doobs".[14]
On January 30, 2013, Middleditch joined HBO's comedy pilot Silicon Valley playing Richard Hendricks.[22] He has said that the pilot was written with him specifically in mind as the lead (the character was originally named Thomas Pickering; the latter being his mother's maiden name).[6] This was a result of a "random" audio sketch he once made for a stand-up routine which he would later animate himself and pitched to several people, including Mike Judge's production partners John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, who would later create the show.[6]
On April 23, 2013, he was added to the cast of the comedy film Search Party, playing Nardo, who travels to Mexico to win his fiancé back, starring alongside one of his Silicon Valley alumni, T.J. Miller.[27] Middleditch made a small cameo appearance in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street as a broker who is fired for cleaning his fish bowl during office hours.[28]
In October 2020, Middleditch began playing the lead role of Drew Dunbar in the CBS comedy series B Positive which was written by Chuck Lorre.[38][39] The series was originally supposed to air in March 2020, but production was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, filming of the pilot had already taken place and so the show was moved to be CBS' only fall debut.[40]
Personal life
Middleditch became engaged to costume designer Mollie Gates in June 2015.[41] They were married on August 22, 2015, in Middleditch's hometown. In a 2019 Playboy interview, he revealed that the pair had an open relationship and said that "swinging has saved our marriage."[42] In May 2020, Gates filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[43] The divorce was reportedly finalized in April 2021.[44]
In March 2021, the Los Angeles Times published allegations that Middleditch sexually harassed women at Cloak & Dagger, a Los Angeles-based goth club, including one incident where he groped a woman's breast.[46] The woman revealed several messages she received from Middleditch in which he apologized for the incident.[47]
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