Ed Helms is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on January 24, 1974 in Atlanta, United States. Comedic actor who first gained recognition on The Daily Show, then went on to play the character Andy Bernard on the NBC series The Office. His film credits include The Hangover trilogy, Cedar Rapids and Vacation.
He played the role of Stu in The Hangover films alongside Zach Galifianakis.
He attended Interlochen Center for the Arts as a youth, and graduated from The Westminster Schools one year after The Office castmate Brian Baumgartner in 1992. Helms entered Oberlin College as a geology major, but ended up graduating in 1996 with his B.A. in film theory and technology. He spent a semester as an exchange student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Helms was performing comedy in New York City when, as he recalled in a 2005 interview, “The Daily Show had a sort of open audition with a casting company that I had dealt with. I read for the part, and got it”. In his April 2002 to mid-2006 tenure on the satirical news program, Helms contributed “field reports” in addition to hosting various segments of the show, such as “Digital Watch”, “Ad Nauseam”, and “Mark Your Calendar”. He has also contributed to the “This Week in God” segment. His 2005 segment “Battle of the Bulge”, which focused on the wearing of Speedo bathing suits on the beaches of Cape May, New Jersey, and his “Mass. Hysteria” segment, in which he reported criticism of Massachusetts when it became the first state to legalize gay marriage, are regarded by TV Guide as his signature segments on the program.
He has a brother named Chris. His father is John Helms and his mother is Pamela Parks.
