Seth Rogen is an Emmy Award®-winning actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and philanthropist whose films and TV projects have had an impressive impact on popular culture and box office returns.
Most recently, Rogen took on multiple roles for the Apple TV+ comedy series The Studio, produced by Point Grey Pictures, which debuted on the platform on March 26, 2025. For this project, he served not only as the star but also as writer, director, and producer. The Studio received critical acclaim and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards® in its debut season, winning thirteen (the most of any series this year and a record number of wins for a comedy series), including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy for Rogen. During the airing of the first season, the series was renewed for a second season, which is currently in pre-production. Rogen will also appear in Good Fortune, an American comedy written by Aziz Ansari and distributed by Lionsgate, slated for release on October 17, 2025.
Recently, Rogen was the voice of ‘Pumbaa’ in Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, a Barry Jenkins-directed film which released December 20, 2024. Rogen also starred in the Apple TV+ comedy series Platonic, the highly anticipated animated adaptation of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the Sony and Black Bear Pictures film Dumb Money. He recently wrapped production on the second season of Platonic.
As an actor, Rogen was nominated for a 2022 Emmy award for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie” for Pam & Tommy. He starred as the “favorite uncle of young Spielberg” in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical Oscar®-nominated film The Fabelmans, which garnered numerous awards and nominations, including seven Oscar® nominations, five Golden Globe® nominations, two SAG nominations, 11 Critics Choice nominations, and more. Rogen also starred in An American Pickle, Good Boys, Jon Favreau’s remake of Disney’s The Lion King, and Lionsgate’s Long Shot, which won the Audience Award at SXSW in 2019.
As a producer, Rogen’s esteemed work includes Hulu’s Emmy®-winning series, Pam & Tommy, Amazon’s The Boys and its spinoff Emmy®-nominated superhero drama Gen V, which has been renewed for a second season, Lionsgate’s Joy Ride, which garnered CinemaCon’s 2023 Comedy Ensemble of the Year Award, Columbia Pictures’ This Is the End, Universal Pictures’ Neighbors & Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Columbia Pictures’ The Interview, The Night Before, Columbia Pictures’ animated film Sausage Party, Universal Pictures’ Blockers, and A24’s The Disaster Artist, which was nominated for a number of awards including an Academy Award for ‘Adapted Screenplay’, Critics Choice Awards for ‘Best Comedy,’ ‘Best Adapted Screenplay,’ and ‘Best Actor’, AMC’s Preacher, Hulu’s Future Man, Showtime’s Black Monday, and Amazon’s Middle West. Recently, Rogen produced the CGI film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the Paramount+ series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Amazon’s Sausage Party: Foodtopia, in which he also starred. Sausage Party: Foodtopia premiered on July 11, 2024, and has already been renewed for a second season.
Rogen is a best-selling author with his debut book, Yearbook, which is a collection of comical and relatable short stories about his life published by Penguin Random House. In March 2019, Rogen collaborated with Evan Goldberg and Michael Mohr to launch Houseplant, a lifestyle company born out of contemporary cannabis culture, offering thoughtfully designed products for the home and for consumption. In 2012, Rogen and his wife, Lauren Miller-Rogen, founded HFC, a national non-profit organization providing care for families contending with Alzheimer’s.