Seth Green
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| Born | Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, Comedian, Voice Actor, TV Producer |
| Years active | 1984 — present |
| Awards | Annie Awards Best Directing in an Animated Television Production 2007 Robot Chicken: Star Wars Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Syndicated Comedy, Drama or Special 1988 The Facts of Life |
Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is best known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as Doctor Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films and Mitch Miller in That '70s Show. He is also known voices the character of Chris Griffin on Family Guy, Flight Lieutenant Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the 2007 video game Mass Effect, and is the co-creator and producer of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken. Green appeared in several other movies, such as Rat Race, The Italian Job, Can't Hardly Wait, and as a child, Stephen King's It.
Biography
Personal life
West Philadelphia, born and raised, Seth Green is the son of Barbara (née Gesshel), an artist, and Herb Green, a math teacher.[1] Barbara and Herb eventually got divorced when Seth was fifteen which caused havoc in his personal life. However, he found refuge in Camp Harlam in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania that he had been going to since he was five years old. His mom worked there for a couple of years as the art director. This was where he discovered that acting and performing was his true calling. After his parent's divorce, he said that camp was a place where he could reinvent himself and be good at anything he wanted. [2] On an Online chat he admitted that, "I'm five-four. [3] Green was brought up Jewish and played a 1940s Jewish boy in Woody Allen's movie Radio Days.[4][5] In a 2000 interview he said, "God is, to me, pretty much an idea. God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions".[6]
Career
Green's first movie role was in the 1984 film A Billion for Boris. At eight, Green landed his first film assignment, a co-starring role in Hotel New Hampshire with Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe. He appeared in the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love, playing the part of Patrick Dempsey's little brother, Chuckie Miller. He also starred in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) as Joe, and appeared in Big Business (1988) and, in the same year, in My Stepmother Is an Alien (with future Buffy co-star Alyson Hannigan). Green appeared in the miniseries It (as Richie Tozier, age 12), all three Austin Powers movies (as Dr. Evil's son, Scott), and Enemy of the State and The Italian Job as a computer specialist. He was also in the films Can't Hardly Wait, Rat Race and Without a Paddle. He also voices Chris Griffin in the hit cartoon series Family Guy.
Green's first television appearances were in Tales from the Darkside and Amazing Stories in the mid-1980s. He made a few appearances on the 1980s television series The Wonder Years. He also appeared in commercials as the window cashier for Rally's Hamburgers in the early 1990s, sparking the catch phrase, "Cha-Ching!" In 1994, he starred alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the short-lived series Byrds of Paradise.
He worked with Hewitt again in 1998's Can't Hardly Wait , which also featured Paige Moss, who would later play with him in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Amber Benson (Tara, Buffy) was also in this film, but her scenes were cut in order to get a PG-13 rating.
Green also began appearing as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer during the second through fourth seasons, and one episode in the first season of the spinoff Angel. Green has also been featured in roles on Greg the Bunny, Tucker, The X-Files, That '70s Show, Will & Grace, MADtv, Reno 911!, Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, and My Name Is Earl.
He is a co-creator and producer of the stop motion TV series Robot Chicken, for which he also does many voices and has even appeared in animated form. He also appeared as a cameo in the Fall Out Boy music video, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race," and in Weird Al Yankovic's "White & Nerdy" music video. He made two appearances on The Soup in 2007 and 2008, using his first appearance to lampoon then-Internet celebrity Chris Crocker.[7] He also voiced the character Joker, pilot of the SSV Normandy, in the video game Mass Effect for the Xbox 360 and PC.[8] He is a producer of The 1 Second Film and appears in the "making of" documentary that accompanies its feature-length credits. Green is also the co-creator (with Hugh Sterbakov) of the comic Freshmen, published by Top Cow Productions.
Green, along with Robot Chicken co-producer Breckin Meyer, appears in the NBC Show Heroes during the 2008/2009 season.[9]
Filmography
Awards and nomination
- 2008: Won, "Best Directing in an Animated Television Production" - Robot Chicken: Star Wars
- 2009: Nominated, "Best Writing in an Animated Television Production" - Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
- 2004: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor" - Party Monster
- 2007: Nominated, "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)" - Robot Chicken (shared w/producers & writers)
- 2008: Pre-Nominated, "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series" - Grey's Anatomy (Crash Into Me, Part 1, Crash Into Me, Part 2)
- 2000: Nominated, "Choice TV Actor" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 2002: Nominated, "Choice Comedic TV Actor" - Greg the Bunny
- 2005: Nominated, "Choice Movie Dance Scene" - Be Cool
- 1989: Won, "Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Syndicated Comedy, Drama or Special" - The Facts of Life
- 1992: Nominated, "Outstanding Young Comedian in a Television Series" - Good & Evil
See also
References
- ^ Seth Green Biography (1974-)
- ^ www.npr.com
- ^ http://www.celebheights.com/s/Seth-Green-125.html
- ^ "Seth Green Biography". Basic Famous People. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ "Tweens: Seth Green". Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ Thompson, Stephen (2000-09-06). "Is there a God?". Onion Inc. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ Seth Green wants you to leave Chris Crocker alone - VIDEO - TV Squad
- ^ "Mass Effect: Q&A with Seth Green". CNET Networks, Inc. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ "Exclusive: 'Heroes' Geeks out over Seth Green, Breckin Meyer". EntertainmentWeekly.com. 2008-08-11. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
External links
- Official Site
- Seth Green at IMDb
- Seth Green Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film
- Robot Chicken page on AdultSwim.com
- Seth Green Fansite
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