Biography
Robert Ben Garant is an American screenwriter, producer, director, actor and comedian. He was born on 14 September 1970 in Cookeville, Tennessee, and attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Garant is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The State and a co-creator of the series Reno 911!, in which he appears as Deputy Travis Junior. He has frequently collaborated as a writer with Thomas Lennon. Their screenplays include The Pacifier (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), its sequels Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), and other films such as Taxi (2004), Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) and Balls of Fury (2007), which Garant also directed.
