Seth Green

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Biography

Seth Green has starred in numerous films and television series including the Austin Powers trilogy, The Italian Job, Party Monster, Without a Paddle, Can't Hardly Wait, Old Dogs and dozens more, including starring roles in 2013's Sexy Evil Genius, The Story of Luke and 2014's Yellowbird. He's portraying Christopher Guest in Netflix's upcoming National Lampoon origin film, A Stupid and Futile Gesture. Green is the co-creator/executive producer/primary voice talent and a writer/director on Robot Chicken, 2010 & 2016 Emmy® Award-winner for Outstanding Short Format Animation Program. Green has voiced Chris Griffin on Family Guy since the series' inception and Leonardo on Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Green has been singled out for many Emmy voiceover nominations for Adult Swim's Robot Chicken. The show, the network's highest-rated original program, and their specials have won numerous Annie Awards for writing and producing, including one for Green for directing. In 2012, Green and his partners created Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, a full-service animation studio with many other projects including: Crackle's SuperMansion, Adult Swim's Hot Streets and OMG! Earth and WWE's Camp WWE. Green has always been fascinated by space travel and has done a PSA for NASA, moderated NASA's first San Diego Comic-Con panel and designed the CASIS patch for the 2015 ISS U.S. National Laboratory missions for research to benefit life on Earth.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·writer·producer
  • Nationality
  • United States
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 08 February 1974
  • Place of birth
  • Philadelphia
  • Death date
  • 1888-08-18
  • Death age
  • 71
  • Place of death
  • 1888-8-18
  • Spouses
  • Clare Grant
  • Education
  • Princeton University·Yale Law School
  • Knows language
  • English language

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Has an older sister, Kaela Green.

He had a part filmed for Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; the part was left on the cutting room floor, but a still from the scene appeared on the rear of the commercial release videocassette box. Seth eventually got to be in Buffy, though, on the TV series.

At 13-years-old he played Alyson Hannigan s boyfriend Fred in My Stepmother Is an Alien . Ten years later, at the age of 23, he played her boyfriend again when he landed the role of Oz on the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" .

Seth is thanked in the sleeve notes of Blink 182 s "Enema of the State". Blink also thanks Idle Hands and Cant Hardly Wait -- both movies featuring a Blink 182 song and, coincidentally, both have Seth Green in them. Seth also had an uncredited role in Enemy of the State .

Named #7 of the Top Ten Sexiest Men of the Buffy / Angel universe in a fan poll by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine.

Not many people know that he was responsible for one of the most overused catchphrases of the 1990s. In 1992 he appeared in a commercial for Rallys Burgers as an obnoxious drive-thru cashier who kept repeating the line "Cha-CHING!!" over and over again and the line entered the popular culture.

Based the gravelly voice of Chris Griffin in "Family Guy" on the Buffalo Bill character from The Silence of the Lambs .

He played Lyle in The Italian Job . His Austin Powers in Goldmember co-star Michael Caine appeared in the original The Italian Job .

Has made his entrance in two separate films to two separate Clay Aiken songs. They are "Invisible" in Without a Paddle and "The Way" in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed .

Was among the guests at Jessica Simpson s 25th birthday party.

Revealed in a 2005 "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" interview that he had auditioned for the American Beauty role that eventually went to Wes Bentley , and he was the runner-up for the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind role that went to Elijah Wood.

Seth is not related to Bruce Seth Green , who directed some episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" . On occasion, some sources confuse the two and have credited Seth as the director.

1998: Named on Entertainment Weeklys "It List" of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment.

Graduated high school with honors.

Attended the same middle school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as pop artist Eve.

Has been long time friends with actress Sarah Michelle Gellar , and has collaborated with her quite a few times. They can be found together in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed , "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Robot Chicken" .

E! Entertainment Televisions poll proclaimed him the hottest young actor in Hollywood.

Entertainment Weekly once named him Best TV Actor.

At the same time he was offered the part in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery , he was also offered a role in Chairman of the Board , starring Scott Carrot Top Thompson. Seth said making the choice between the two films was difficult at the time. [source: Seth Green interview on NPR, Feb 23, 2005].

Engaged to Clare Grant [February 25, 2010].

Along with Chi Muoi Lo , he is one of only two actors to appear in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the subsequent television adaptation "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" . However, his scenes in the former were cut from the final version of the film.

Very close friends with fellow "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Michelle Trachtenberg.

Loves action figures and has his own of Scott Evil.

(July 2009) Was the guest host on WWE Monday Night Raw (July 13th)

(October 2003) In Wellington, New Zealand, filming Without a Paddle

(November 2006) Currently working on his show "Robot Chicken" .

His parents are both Jewish. Their families were from Russia, Germany, and Latvia.

Played Wolfman on Seaquest DSV episode "Photon Bullet" before he played a werewolf on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Quotes

My main goal was to not make him this mono-dimensional computer guy.

[on making Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) ] Really fun.

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