Michael Rosenbaum

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Michael Rosenbaum
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Born
Michael Owen Rosenbaum

(1972-07-11) July 11, 1972 (age 51)
Oceanside, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actor, Director, Writer, Podcaster
Years active1997–present

Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor, writer, director and podcaster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the Superman television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".[1]

Rosenbaum is also known for portraying Martinex in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Parker in Urban Legend, Adam/Adina in Sorority Boys and Dutch Nilbog on Fox's Breaking In. He also has an extensive voiceover career in animation, such as his role of Wally West / The Flash in the DC Animated Universe series Justice League (2001–04) and its sequel Justice League Unlimited (2004–06). Between 2015 and 2016, he played the lead role and was an Executive Producer in the TV Land comedy series Impastor.

He is also the lead singer of the band Sun Spin with his friend, guitarist Rob Danson. The band's first album, Best Days was released on February 9, 2021.[2] Their new album, Never is what it is, will be released in January, 2023.

Early life

Rosenbaum was born in Oceanside, New York and raised in Newburgh, Indiana.[3] His mother, Julie (née Eckstein), is a writer who published the book "Journey of a Lifetime." His father, Mark Rosenbaum, worked in pharmaceuticals.[4] He is one of six children with two brothers, Eric and Adam, and a sister, Laurie. After his parents' divorce, his mother remarried sports reporter Gordon Engelhardt. His father remarried Alexis Pelegrino, with whom he had two daughters, Rosenbaum's half-sisters Ava and Lia. Lia passed away in 2020. His uncle is pet behaviorist Warren Eckstein.[5] Rosenbaum is Jewish, and says he was "closer to religion" in New York than in Indiana.[6]

He graduated from Castle High School in Newburgh, Indiana and from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, with a degree in theatre arts. Immediately after, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.[7]

Career

Once in New York, Vincent Letizia, an MTV Networks intern spotted his 8×10 black-and-white photo in a batch of other casting submissions for a pilot called "Talk Girl". The pilot was never green-lighted, but Rosenbaum stood out as a newly discovered talent. A new MTV pilot was conceived specifically for Rosenbaum with the working title of The Michael Rosenbaum Project. The project later became known as "Working Stiff" and covered Rosenbaum in a reality television setting as a temp, who would walk into a different job each day. The pilot featured Rosenbaum as a Cat filling in on Broadway's "Cats" musical, and as a zoo keeper filling in at the zoo, sweeping animal manure and the like. The pilot never took off with MTV executives.

In 2001, Rosenbaum received a Saturn Award for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville. Continuing in the superhero genre, he played Wally West (a.k.a. the Flash) in the DC Comics animated series Justice League, Static Shock, and Justice League Unlimited as well as portraying a younger version of Wally West as Kid Flash in Teen Titans. In the third season Justice League Unlimited episode "Great Brain Robbery", Rosenbaum reprised his role as Lex Luthor when his character was trapped in Clancy Brown's Lex Luthor's body. In February 2008, Rosenbaum confirmed that he would be leaving Smallville after the seventh season of the show. After many months of speculation and him first turning down the contract to return, it was announced on February 11, 2011 that Rosenbaum would return to Smallville for the two-hour series finale, which aired on May 13, 2011,[8] with Rosenbaum reprising his role as Lex Luthor.[9]

In 2012, Rosenbaum appeared in Hit and Run, a movie that he made with his friends Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell. Michael portrayed the character Gil, a jealous ex-boyfriend from Annie's (Bell's character) past.[10]

Rosenbaum has a few notable vocal impressions in his repertoire, Christopher Walken, Keanu Reeves, Rodney Dangerfield, Dudley Moore, John Malkovich, Harry Carey and Kevin Spacey. The makers of the DCAU have used these impressions in their work, having Rosenbaum do his Walken voice for Ghoul in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and his Spacey voice for Deadshot; Spacey coincidentally portrayed Lex Luthor in the film Superman Returns, and Walken played Max Shreck in Batman Returns. He wrote the original SyFy comedy series Saved By Zeroes; yet was never picked up to series.[11][12] He was also a regular in Fox's original sitcom Breaking In with Christian Slater.

In 2014, Rosenbaum made his feature-film directorial and writing debut with the comedy Back in the Day, where he stars as an actor who returns to his hometown in Indiana for a class reunion. The movie was filmed in Newburgh and Evansville, Indiana and also starred Morena Baccarin, Nick Swardson and Harland Williams.[13][14]

Prior to the production of Back in the Day, Rosenbaum planned to direct another comedy film, titled Sorry is For Sissies. The film had a cast including Jon Heder, Colin Hanks, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green and Nick Swardson, however, at least half of the film's budget was lost, and the film was scrapped.[15]

On June 17, 2014, Rosenbaum was cast as the lead in the TV Land original sitcom Impastor. The plot has been summarised as a "low-life who hides out in a small town by conning the residents into thinking he is their newly hired gay pastor". Rosenbaum was also an Executive Producer.[16]

In 2017, Rosenbaum served as narrator for the reality television show Hunted which pitted investigators against teams of ordinary citizens trying to evade capture as fugitives.[17]

In 2018, Rosenbaum debuted his casual celebrity interview-based podcast called Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. His first guest was his Smallville co-star Tom Welling.[18] Since then his guests have included many celebrities such as Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Kiefer Sutherland, Judd Apatow, Kristin Bell and more. In July, 2022, Rosenbaum and Tom Welling launched the podcast Talkville, where they re-watch every episode of Smallville.[19][20]

On August 5, 2022, Rosenbaum confirmed that he will reprise the role of Martinex in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 which will be released in May 2023.[21]

Filmography

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Film

Year Title Role Notes
1997 The Devil & the Angel The Devil
1997 The Day I Ran Into All My Ex Boyfriends Bart
1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil George Tucker
1998 1999 Brick
1998 Urban Legend Parker Riley
2000 Eyeball Eddie Skelley Short film
2000 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Ghoul Voice
2001 Sweet November Brandon / Brandy
2001 Rave Macbeth Marcus
2002 Poolhall Junkies Danny
2002 Sorority Boys Adam / Adina
2003 Special Fred Molinski
2003 Bringing Down the House Todd Gendler
2005 Cursed Kyle Uncredited
2005 Racing Stripes Ruffshodd Voice
2007 Cutlass Background Extra #2 Short film
2007 Kickin' It Old Skool Kip
2007 Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight Tanis Half-Elven Voice
2008 Shear Love[22] Short film
2010 Father of Invention Eddie
2010 Catch .44 Brandon
2010 Ghild Brauly Gullivan Short film
2012 Justice League: Doom Barry Allen / The Flash Voice
2012 Hit and Run Gil Rathbinn
2014 Back in the Day Jim Owens Also director, writer, & executive producer
2015 Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Drift Leader Voice[23]
2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Martinex T'Naga
2018 The Neighbor Scott
2020 DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger Seth Voice
2023 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Martinex Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1998 The Tom Show Jonathan Summers Episode: "The Talk"
1999 Rocket Power Sports Announcer Voice
Episode: "Super McVariel 900/Loss of Squid"
1999–2000 Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane Jack Cooper Main cast
24 episodes
1999–2001 Batman Beyond Ollie, Carter Wilson / Terminal, Wendell, Carl, Agent West, Smirk Voice
6 Episodes
2000 The Wild Thornberrys Tom Ravenhearst Voice
Episode: "A Shaky Foundation"
2001 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue Olympius Voice
Episode: "Olympius Descends"
2000–2004 Static Shock Trapper / Speedtrap (3 episodes)
The Flash (2 episodes)		 Voice
5 episodes
2001–2008, 2011 Smallville Lex Luthor 154 episodes
Main cast (Seasons 1–7)
Special guest (Season 10)
Directed the 125th episode "Freak"
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2002)
SFX Award for Best Newcomer (2003)
Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006)
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series Drama (2003)
Nominated – Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Sidekick (2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009)
2006 Ultraman Tiga Evil Tiga Voice
2001–2002 The Zeta Project Agent West Voice
8 episodes
2001–2006 Justice League and Justice League Unlimited Wally West / The Flash, Floyd Lawton / Deadshot, Arkkis Chummuck, Andre, Colonel Josef, Bald Pedestrian, Franzee, Ghoul, Vigilante, Blitzkrieg, Doctor Polaris Voice
56 episodes
2003 Player$ Himself Episode: "Charlie's Angels"
2004–2005 Jackie Chan Adventures Drago Voice
11 episodes
2005–2006 Teen Titans Kid Flash Voice
2 episodes
2005 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Colin Episode: "Gun Fever"
2008 PG Porn Charlie Brown 2 episodes
2009 Untitled Family Pilot[24] Derek Failed Pilot
Batman: The Brave and the Bold Deadman Voice
Episode: "Dawn of the Dead Man!"
2011–2012 Breaking In Dutch Nilbog 8 episodes
2015–2016 Impastor[25] Buddy Dobbs Lead role
2017 Hunted Narrator 7 episodes
2017 Typical Rick Mark Episode "Mr. Gaber"
2019 Robot Chicken Westley (voice) Episode: "Musya Shakhtyorov in: Honeyboogers"

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Gladius Valens Voice
2006 Yakuza Akira Nishikiyama
2008 Dark Sector Hayden Tenno
2012 Lollipop Chainsaw Nick Carlyle
2013 Infinite Crisis The Flash[26][27]
2015 Batman: Arkham Knight Johnny Charisma[28]
2018 Lego DC Super-Villains The Flash[29]

References

  1. ^ Bretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt; (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 nastiest villains of all time". TV Guide. pp. 14-15.
  2. ^ "Sun Spin's First Album Is Now Available". nerdsandbeyond.com. 9 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  3. ^ "Michael Rosenbaum biodata". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  4. ^ "Michael Rosenbaum biography". tcm.com. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Derek now lives in the Hollywood Hills". warreneckstein.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014.
  6. ^ Kraus, Haggay (April 2002). "Smallville Interview". michaelrosenbaum.com. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012.
  7. ^ "Michael's Story". www.wku.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  8. ^ Rice, Lynette; Hibberd, James (February 11, 2011). "'Smallville' scoop: Michael Rosenbaum will return for series finale". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
  9. ^ "Michael Rosenbaum Returning to Smallville For Series Finale". TVGuide.com. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  10. ^ "Hit and Run". IMDb. IMDb. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  11. ^ Kevin Coll. "TV News: Michael Rosenbaum and Syfy Team Up for Comedy Series Saved by Zeroes". FusedFilm. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  12. ^ Jon Lachonis. "Smallville's Michael Rosenbaum Returning to TV". TV Overmind. Archived from the original on 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  13. ^ Yamato, Jen (October 3, 2013). "Screen Media Goes 'Back In The Day' With Michael Rosenbaum". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  14. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (January 16, 2014). "The 20th High School Reunion Rears Its Head". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  15. ^ Inside of You podcast, Episode 13, 5:00 (July 3, 2018)
  16. ^ "Smallville's' Michael Rosenbaum to Star in TV Land Comedy 'Impastor". The Hollywood Reporter. June 17, 2014.
  17. ^ "New 'Hunted' reality series to premiere on CBS in January". realitytvworld.com.
  18. ^ "Inside of You podcast". insideofyoupodcast.com/.
  19. ^ Spangler, Todd (July 6, 2022). "'Smallville' Rewatch Podcast With Show Stars Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum Gets Premiere Date (Podcast News Roundup)". Variety. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  20. ^ "Talkville on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  21. ^ Miller, Leon (August 5, 2022). "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2's Michael Rosenbaum Confirms Martinex Will Be in Vol. 3". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  22. ^ "Shear Love". Archived from the original on March 2, 2008.
  23. ^ Justice League: Throne of Atlantis End Credits
  24. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (April 27, 2009). "Missi Pyle joins NBC family pilot". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 30, 2009.
  25. ^ Hipes, Patrick. "Impastor". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  26. ^ Turbine, Inc. Infinite Crisis. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Credits, Voice Over Talent.
  27. ^ "Credits - Infinite Crisis". infinitecrisis.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015.
  28. ^ Rocksteady Studios. Batman: Arkham Knight. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Credits, 13:05 in, Voiceover & Mocap Talent.
  29. ^ "Syndicated Comics". 28 September 2018.

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