American actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse took his cinematic bow in 2007 in the Greg Mottola-directed comedy Superbad. In that picture, Mintz-Plasse played a nerdy but extremely resourceful young man who procures a lousy fake ID and gains the friendship of two wild cops. He followed up with parts in Role Models and Year One, and lent his distinctive voice to family films like Marmaduke and How To Train Your Dragon. He had a major part in the remake of Fright Night in 2011.