Kevin Heffernan is a long-term member of the comedy group Broken Lizard and made his big-screen acting debut in a supporting role in director/writer/producer/actor Edward Burns’s drama, No Looking Back (1998), co-starring Lauren Holly and Jon Bon Jovi, produced (in part) by Ted Hope, and released by Gramercy Pictures (U.S., Canada)/20th Century Fox (International). Heffernan’s first movie with Broken Lizard as actor/co-editor was Super Troopers (2001), directed, co-edited and starring Jay Chandrasekhar, written by the Broken Lizard company (including Heffernan), and which grossed a terrific $23 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Heffernan co-starred in Broken Lizard’s not-as-successful second movie, Club Dread (2004), directed and co-starring by Jay Chandrasekhar, with Bill Paxton, produced (in part) by Broken Lizard Industries, but lost money for distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures with a $7.6 million gross (based on estimated costs). Heffernan appeared in a small role in Walt Disney Pictures’ superhero comedy, Sky High (2005), co-starring Kelly Preston, Michael Angarano, Danielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kurt Russell under Mike Mitchell’s direction, and which delivered a good $86.4 million gross (based on estimated costs).
Kevin Heffernan reunited with his Broken Lizard member and director Jay Chandrasekhar for The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), the third in the series based on the TV series, co-starring Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Joe Don Baker, Lynda Carter and Willie Nelson, produced (in part) by Broken Lizard and Village Roadshow Pictures and grossing nearly $110 million for Warner Bros. Pictures. Heffernan co-wrote the script (with producer Peter E. Lengyel) of the musical comedy-drama, Preaching to the Choir (2006), with Billoah Greene, Darien Sills-Evans, Novella Nelson, Eartha Kitt and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje under Charles Randolph-Wright’s direction, and which was released by Freestyle Releasing, and then Heffernan appeared in the cast for director/co-writer Sarah Kelly’s comedy drama, The Lather Effect (2006), co-starring Connie Britton, Sarah Clarke, Tate Donovan, David Herman, Peter Facinelli, William Mapother, Ione Skye and Eric Stoltz, and released by Tycoon Entertainment.
Heffernan’s next Broken Lizard movie with director/lead Jay Chandrasekhar was Beerfest (2006), with non-Lizard cast mates Will Forte, Ralf Moller, Mo’Nique, Eric Christian Olsen, Jurgen Prochnow and Cloris Leachman, and grossing a poor $20.4 million gross (based on estimated costs) for Warner Bros. Pictures, followed by Heffernan taking a co-starring role in producer Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison adventure comedy, Strange Wilderness (2008), with Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick, Joe Don Baker, Justin Long, Jeff Garlin and Ernest Borgnine under the direction of co-writer Fred Wolf, but earning a poor $7 million (based on estimated costs) for Paramount Pictures. Heffernan joined the cast of director/writer Stephen Belber’s comedy drama, Management (2008), co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson and Fred Ward, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and grossing $2.4 million for distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films, and then Heffernan made his feature directorial debut with the Broken Lizard comedy, The Slammin’ Salmon (2009), starring Michael Clarke Duncan, Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Olivia Munn, launching at the Slamdance Film Festival before a limited release by Anchor Bay Films.
Kevin Heffernan reunited with director/producer Jay Chandrasekhar and co-star Olivia Munn for the comedy, The Babymakers (2012), co-starring Paul Schneider, Wood Harris and Nat Faxon, produced (in part) by Blumhouse Productions and released in limited pattern by Millennium Entertainment, and then Heffernan had a supporting role in director/co-writer Dan Rosen’s Broken Lizard-produced comedy, Freeloaders (2012), with Clifton Collins Jr., Josh Lawson, Kevin Sussman, Zoe Boyle, Faxon, Jane Seymour, Munn, Dave Foley and Adam Duritz, and released by Myriad Pictures. Heffernan returned to features with his Broken Lizard buddies (including director/co-star Jay Chandrasekhar, as well as Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske) for the sequel, Super Troopers 2 (2018), with Rob Lowe and Brian Cox, produced (in part) by Broken Lizard Industries and earning a healthy $32 million box office for Fox Searchlight Pictures (based on estimated costs).
Heffernan had a small voice role in the reboot of Warner Animation Group’s and Reel FX Animation’s Scooby-Doo theatrical franchise,
Scoob! (2020), starring the voices of Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs, Gina Rodriguez, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Kiersey Clemons, Ken Jeong, Tracy Morgan and Frank Welker under Tony Cervone’s direction, grossing a weak $28.5 million (based on estimated costs) for Warner Bros. Pictures before a robust VOD release. Heffernan’s next major feature project was the Broken Lizard sequel,
Super Troopers 3 (2026), directed and co-starring Jay Chandrasekhar along with his regular Broken Lizard mates as well as cast members Brian Cox and Chace Crawford, produced (in part) by Broken Lizard Industries, and released wide by Searchlight Pictures.
