Jason Lee

Jason Lee is an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and former professional skateboarder, born on 25 April 1970 in Santa Ana, California, and raised in Huntington Beach. His mother bought him a skateboard hoping he would burn off his energy, and he left school to pursue a professional skateboarding career, skating professionally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He appeared in the Blind Skateboards video Video Days in 1991, and in 1992 he founded Stereo Sound Agency, known as Stereo Skateboards, with fellow skater Chris Pastras, reviving the company in 2003 after it had been defunct for a few years. Outside skateboarding he is known for playing Earl Hickey in the television series My Name Is Earl and for roles in several Kevin Smith films.