The actor-writer-producer has appeared in over 60 features and in countless TV episodes and telefilms. DeVito has been nominated for five Emmy Awards® (including a 1981 Taxi win for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series), six Golden Globes® (1980 winner, Best TV Actor in a Supporting Role, again for Taxi), and a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in 1997's L.A. Confidential. As a producer, he was Oscar®-nominated for Erin Brockovich.

DeVito's many motion picture appearances include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Goin' South, Terms of Endearment, Romancing the Stone, Johnny Dangerously, The Jewel of the Nile, Ruthless People, Tin Men, Twins, Other Peoples' Money, and Batman Returns.

Later feature acting credits include Renaissance Man, Junior, Get Shorty, The Rainmaker, Living Out Loud, The Virgin Suicides, The Big Kahuna, Man on the Moon, Drowning Mona, and What's the Worst That Could Happen?.

More recently, DeVito has appeared in such films as Anything Else, Big Fish, Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Be Cool, The OH in Ohio, and Relative Strangers.

He has both directed and acted in the features Throw Momma From the Train, The War of the Roses, Hoffa, Matilda, Death to Smoochy, and Duplex; as well as the telefilm The Ratings Game (1985 Cable ACE® Award nomination, Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries).

DeVito has also lent his distinctive voice to such films as My Little Pony: the Movie, Look Who's Talking Now, Space Jam, and Hercules, and TV shows like The Simpsons and Father of the Pride.

He has appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live a total of eight times, four as host. More recently, DeVito has been a semi-regular on the hit FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

In addition, the actor/filmmaker has enjoyed an extensive feature producing career. Under his Jersey Films banner, he has served as either producer or executive producer on such movies as Hoffa, Reality Bites, 8 Seconds, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Sunset Park, Matilda, Gattaca, Out of Sight, Living Out Loud, Man on the Moon, How High, Camp, Along Came Polly, Garden State, Be Cool, and Relative Strangers. DeVito also executive produced the telefilms The Sports Jerks and The Pentagon Wars, as well as series like Kate Brasher, UC: Undercover, The American Embassy, Reno 911!, and Karen Sisco.

Upcoming projects for DeVito include acting in the features Nobel Son, The Good Night, One Part Sugar, and Reno 911!: Miami (also executive producer). He will also produce the thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones and is attached to direct the comic fantasy I Married a Witch.