Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. He is known on television for his role as Spence Olchin in The King of Queens, and in cinema for his role as the mouse Remy in Pixar's Ratatouille.

He was born on January 27, 1969 in Portsmouth, Virginia. He graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in English. He started performing on the stand-up stage in 1988, during his university years.

Comedy and television

The first work that brought Oswalt to a wide audience was The King of Queens, published between 1998 and 2007; He played comic book and science fiction enthusiast Spence Olchin in the series. In the following years, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He played the Koenig brothers in the TV series, and was the narrator for all ten seasons of The Goldbergs between 2013 and 2023. In 2021, he voiced the protagonist in Marvel's animated series M.O.D.O.K.

He has performed many special shows in the field of stand-up. Talking for Clapping, released on Netflix in 2016, earned him the Primetime Emmy award for writing a variety special; The album version of the same show won the Grammy for best comedy album the following year.

Cinema and writing

In the 2007 movie Ratatouille, he played the voice of Remy, the mouse who dreams of becoming a chef in Paris. In 2011, he appeared in a dramatic role in Young Adult, directed by Jason Reitman. As an author, he published the books Zombie Spaceship Wasteland (2011) and Silver Screen Fiend (2015), in which he describes his passion for cinema.

He also contributed to the 2018 publication of his wife Michelle McNamara's unfinished book, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, about the Golden State Killer investigation.

Combining comedy, acting and voice acting in the same career, Oswalt continues to work as one of the productive names of the American stand-up scene.