Jason Mewes Biography

Jason Mewes (born June 12, 1974) is an American television and film actor from New Jersey. He has had roles in several low-budget independent films. He is best known, however, for playing the role of foul-mouthed drug dealer "Jay" in the "New Jersey films" written and directed by Kevin Smith, who's been close friends with him since he was a teenager. He currently lives with Smith, his wife and his child in Smith's Los Angeles home.

Mewes, like his character Jay, was a drug user. During the production of Clerks and Mallrats, Jason was a marijuana and alcohol user.
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During Chasing Amy, he began his heroin use. During Dogma's production, he was a heroin and Oxycodone addict, something close friend Kevin Smith claims that he did not know about until weeks later. During most of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back's production, he drank, but started using Oxycontin during its last week.

The role of Arthur Brickman in Smith's Jersey Girl was written for Mewes, but he was unable to shoot the film because he was wanted by authorities after violating his probation stemming from drug possession charges. The role went instead to Jason Biggs. During the production of Jersey Girl, Mewes underwent drug tests, rehabilitation, and criminal trials.

Now sober, Jason has just finished reprising his Jay role for Clerks II.

While he is mostly known for acting in films, Jason also has worked in television. He voiced the role of Jay in the short lived Clerks: The Animated Series. He, along with Kevin Smith, have made appearances on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Jason appeared in two episodes of a three-part story arc in which Smith and Mewes film a new addition to Smith's New Jersey films entitled Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh? at Degrassi Junior High. Kevin and Jay appear again on Degrassi, in which the two appear at the premiere of Jay and Silent Bob go Canadian, Eh? in Canada. Mewes, Smith, and Degrassi star Stacie Mistysyn made the cover of Canadian TV Guide. In 1998 he starred as "Gary Lamb - Ground Activist" in a series of Nike commercials directed by Smith.

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