Jason Gann
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- Hails from the same city in Queensland, Australia, as Geoffrey Rush.
- Won Best Actor award at the 2002 Australian short-film festival Tropfest for the original Wilfred, a seven-minute short. Wilfred also won Best Comedy and People's Choice awards, and was later screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
- Gann and cocreator Adam Zwar (who also costarred) expanded Wilfred into a sitcom, which aired on Australian TV in 2007 and 2010, and won a 2010 Australian Film Institute screenwriting award.
- Cocreated and was an ensemble member (along with Zwar) of the Australian sketch-comedy series The Wedge in 2006-07.
- Costarred in and cowrote (with Zwar) the 2008 theatrical comedy Rats and Cats.
- Is the lead singer for the Australian rock group Sofamecca.