Editing Mike Myers (section)

== Early life ==
Michael John Myers was born in [[Scarborough, Ontario]], on May 25, 1963,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Janis |date=October 27, 2010 |title=Mike Myers |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mike-myers |access-date=January 19, 2025 |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Historica Canada]]}}</ref><ref name=tvg>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mike-myers/bio/166681|title=Mike Myers Biography at|magazine=[[TV Guide]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017052517/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mike-myers/bio/166681 |access-date=October 16, 2013|archive-date=October 17, 2013 }}</ref> to data processor Alice "Bunny" E. (née Hind) and insurance agent Eric Myers. His parents were British immigrants from the [[Old Swan]] area of [[Liverpool]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-89729450|title=Mike Myers: International Man of Mirth|first=Peter|last=Elson|work=[[Liverpool Daily Post]]|publisher=[[Trinity Mirror]]|date=July 27, 2002|access-date=October 23, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|id=v9Du7ikTpHE|title=Mike Myers Has A History With Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'}}, ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'' (November 1, 2018)</ref> Both were [[World War II]] veterans, his mother having served in the [[Women's Royal Air Force]]{{Clarify|date=March 2025|reason=see Talk page }} and his father in the [[Royal Engineers]]. He has distant Scottish ancestry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/03/mike-myers-family-values | title=Mike Myers: My family values &#124; Family &#124; the Guardian | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=July 2, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="tiscali1">{{cite web|url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/mike_myers_biog.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021016014221/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/mike_myers_biog.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 16, 2002 |last=Wills |first=Dominic |title=Mike Myers Biography |publisher=[[TalkTalk Group|TalkTalk]] |access-date=May 1, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="invictus">{{cite web|url=https://www.forces.net/sport/invictus-games/invictus-mike-myers-honours-british-parents-who-fought-ww2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924054849/https://www.forces.net/sport/invictus-games/invictus-mike-myers-honours-british-parents-who-fought-ww2 |url-status=live |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |author=Invictus Games |title=Invictus: Mike Myers Honours British Parents Who Fought In WW2 |publisher=Forces Network |date=September 23, 2017 |access-date=June 4, 2021}}</ref> He has two older brothers: [[Paul Myers (musician)|Paul]], a musician, and Peter, who worked for [[Sears Canada]].<ref name="CBC">{{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Sophia|title=Employee featured in hit Sears Canada ad with famous brother Mike Myers loses job and severance|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sears-mike-myers-ad-restructuring-lay-offs-1.4199261|access-date=January 10, 2018|work=[[CBC News]]|publisher=CBC Inc.|date=July 19, 2017|language=en}}</ref> He grew up in Scarborough and [[North York]],<ref name="ottawa citizen">{{cite news |last=Ahearn |first=Victoria |date=October 28, 2016 |title=Mike Myers on his new book 'Canada' and his relationship with his home country |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/mike+myers+book+canada+relationship+with+home+country/12327434/story.html |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |publisher=[[The Canadian Press]] |location=Ottawa, Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031212226/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/mike+myers+book+canada+relationship+with+home+country/12327434/story.html |archive-date=October 31, 2016 }}</ref> where he attended [[Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute]]. He graduated from [[Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute]] in 1982.

One of his neighbours and schoolmates was prominent voice actor [[Maurice LaMarche]].<ref>{{cite tweet |url=https://twitter.com/MAURICELAMARCHE/status/1395031259299024902 |title=I also did the original scratch for Shrek (which went to my childhood neighbor Mike Myers), Dinosaur (went to D.B Sweeney), and The Toad in Flushed Away, which went to Ian McKellen after I said, "Oh, I've just been doing my Ian McKellen for you guys this whole time". |user=MAURICELAMARCHE |last=LaMarche |first=Maurice |author-link=Maurice LaMarche |number=1395031259299024902 |date=May 19, 2021 |access-date=May 16, 2022}}</ref>