Jason Kent Bateman is an American actor, director, and producer. He is known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022). He has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2017 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He began his career as a child actor, appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991. He has starred in the films Teen Wolf Too (1987), Necessary Roughness (1991), Dodgeball (2004), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), Up in the Air, Extract (both 2009), The Switch (2010), The Change-Up (2011), Paul (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011) and its sequel (2014), Identity Thief (2013), This is Where I Leave You (2014), The Gift (2015), Office Christmas Party (2016), Zootopia (2016), and Game Night (2018). Since July 2020 he has co-hosted the comedy podcast SmartLess with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes.
Is Jason Bateman A Jew?
No, he is not, though there are rumours flying around that he is. There’s no clear proof of Jason Bateman belonging to a particular religious group or publicly practicing a faith. His sister, Justine Bateman, is a born again Christian and has discussed finding religion in adulthood, a possible sign that their family was not a practicing member of organized religion but any claims about Jason appear to be complete speculation.
Mini Bio On Jason Bateman
We know that Jason Bateman was born in New York and is the son of Kent Bateman, an American film producer, and Victoria Elizabeth, an English flight attendant.
He also has a sister, Justine Bateman, who starred alongside Michael J Fox in the 1980s show “Family Ties. While both Jason and Justine were TV stars from an early age, not a great deal of information about their home life has been made public, including their religious background.
Conclusion
There are several websites online claiming that Bateman is Christian but they don’t provide any sources for this assertion.
These same sites claim that his wife, Amanda Anka is Christian, likely based on speculation that her father, Paul Anka, is an Orthodox Christian.
However, Paul’s ex-wife Anna Anka states that Paul is non-religious so we can probably just ignore any unfounded claims at about Jason Bateman, his wife, or his father-in-law.
An interview with a religious film critic after the release of his directorial debut “Bad Words” also makes no mention of whether or not Bateman himself is religious.
