Zach Cregger
Birthdate: March 1, 1980 (46 Years Old)
Birthplace: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Zach Cregger (birthname: Zachary Michael Cregger) launched his career as co-founder of the comedy group, The Whitest Kids U’Know, as well as star of various sitcoms, including Friends with Benefits. Cregger and The Whitest Kids U’Know won Best Sketch Group at the 2006 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and established themselves on television, particularly on their comedy show, which aired for five seasons from 2007-2011 on IFC.
Cregger’s feature debut as an actor was the MGM comedy, College (2008), directed by Deb Hagan and with Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, and Haley Bennett. Cregger partnered with his late WKUK co-player Trevor Moore (who died in 2021) as writer-director-star of the Playboy-themed comedy distributed by Fox Searchlight, Miss March (2009), with Craig Robinson and, in his last screen appearance, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, while Cregger’s second WKUK-related movie was The Civil War on Drugs (2011), again written and directed by Cregger and Moore, with Cregger playing Abraham Lincoln.
Cregger was back as an actor in a non-KWUK project, Bryan Poyser’s Love & Air Sex (2013), with Sara Paxton, Ashley Bell, and Addison Timlin, and which premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. Cregger co-starred in the Lionsgate teen comedy, Date and Switch (2014), with Dakota Johnson, Nicholas Braun, and Hunter Cope, followed by the indie musical comedy, Opening Night (2016), starring Topher Grace, Anne Hache, Taye Diggs, and Rob Riggle.
Zach Cregger switched modes for the drama of Will McFadden’s race-themed Doubting Thomas (2018), with McFadden, Jamie Hector, James Morrison, and Melora Walters. Cregger made the biggest creative shift of his career, as writer-director (and not cast member) of 20th Century Studios’ horror movie--with no comedy--Barbarian (2022), starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long, widely considered one of the finest American horror movies of the past decade, starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Matthew Patrick Davis, Richard Brake and Kurt Braunholer, and turning into a lucrative hit for 20th Century Fox and lead producer Regency Enterprises with a knockout gross of $45.4 million on $4.5 million costs.
Cregger reunited with his KWUK troupe, including Moore in his final feature appearance, in the Sevan Najarian-directed animated comedy, Mars (2022), which Cregger co-wrote with Moore and Sam Brown. Cregger shifted to the role of feature film producer (with fellow producers Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz and Roy Lee) of director/writer Drew Hancock’s sci-fi thriller, Companion (2025), starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillen, Rupert Friend and Jaboukie Young-White, produced by New Line Cinema/BoulderLight Pictures and released by Warner Bros. to a gross of $36.7 million on a $10 million budget.
Zach Cregger was director/writer/producer/co-composer of the horror mystery, Weapons (2025), co-starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan, co-produced by New Line Cinema/Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/BoulderLight Pictures for a $38 million budget and released wide by Warner Bros. Cregger was director/writer of the reboot, Resident Evil (2026), co-written by Shay Hatten and starring Austin Abrams, produced by Robert Kulzer, Roy Lee and Miri Yoon via Columbia Pictures/Constantin Film/PlayStation Productions, and released wide by Sony Pictures Releasing via Columbia.
Personal life
Zach Cregger was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia. He has three brothers, named Jake, Sam, and Dan Cregger. Cregger attended and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He married actor-singer Sara Paxton in 2019; the couple has no children. Cregger’s height is 6’ 2”.
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Facts About Zach Cregger
Honest Zach: In sketches and then with the movie, The Civil War on Drugs, Zach Cregger played Abraham Lincoln in various situations, including a black-comic sketch involving his assassination.
