The 40-Year-Old Virgin

…produced the surprise hit movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin, starring Steve Carell, an actor Apatow met while producing the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

…breakthrough came in 2005 with The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which he cowrote and starred in as the title character. Directed by Judd Apatow, the comedy combined crude humour with touching moments and became a critical and commercial hit. Carell’s success continued with the dark comedy Little Miss Sunshine (2006), in which…

…small role in Judd Apatow’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), the first of several successful comedies with the filmmaker. In 2007 he had a minor part in Apatow’s Knocked Up before appearing in his breakthrough film, Superbad, in which he and costar Michael Cera played unpopular high schoolers hoping to have…

…to such film comedies as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), License to Wed (2007), and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and voiced characters for the animated movies Despicable Me (2010), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Inside Out (2015). She later appeared as Mrs. Who in the 2018

…of Ron Burgundy (2004) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), stealing scenes in the latter from lead Steve Carell. Rogen put in another supporting performance in You, Me and Dupree (2006), but it was his next film that made him a household name. In Knocked Up, which Apatow wrote and directed,…

…number of other comedies, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) with Carell, Knocked Up (2007), This Is 40 (2012), and Wanderlust (2012), which he coproduced. He worked again with Carell in Dinner for Schmucks (2010) and with Carell and Ferrell in the unsuccessful Anchorman sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues