Seth Green
Seth Green in July 2011.
Born	Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green (1974-02-08) February 8, 1974 (age 38) Overbrook Park, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, comedian, voice actor, writer, producer, television director
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Clare Grant (2010–present)
Website
www.sethgreenonline.com

Seth Benjamin Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, television producer and screenwriter. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris Griffin on Family Guy. He also voices Lieutenant Gibbs in Titan Maximum and Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the Mass Effect video game series. Green is one of the creators and producers of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken, in which he also voices several characters. He has appeared in many other movies, such as Rat Race, The Italian Job, Can't Hardly Wait, Without a Paddle, as a child in Woody Allen's Radio Days, and in the horror films Stephen King's It and Idle Hands.

Early life[link]

Green was born and raised in Overbrook Park, West Philadelphia, a section of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents are Barbara (née Gesshel), an artist, and Herbert Green, a math teacher.^[1] After his parents' divorce, he has stated that camp was a place where he could reinvent himself and be good at anything he wanted.^[2] This camp was called URJ Camp Harlam^[3] in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania. After a camp production of Hello, Dolly!, Green decided that he wanted to be an actor.

Career[link]

Early work[link]

Green's first movie-role was in the 1984 film Billions for Boris. At eight, Green landed his first film assignment, a co-starring role in the 1984 film The 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 character's little brother, Chuckie Miller. He also starred in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) as Joe, a 1940s boy, and appeared in Big Business (1988) and, in the same year, in My Stepmother Is an Alien, which also starred Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Alyson Hannigan.

In 1991 Green rose to fame in a Rally's "Cha Ching" commercial, which earned him an appearance at the 1991 Super Bowl. Green was given a key to New Orleans in honor of his role in the popular commercial.^[4]

Green appeared in the miniseries It (as Richie Tozier, age 12), Infested (aka Ticks - 1993), 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, Without a Paddle, Idle Hands and Sex Drive. Green also had a role in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but the scene he was in was subsequently cut.

In 1994, he starred alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the short-lived series The 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 Maclay, Buffy) was also in this film, but her scenes were cut in order to get a PG-13 rating.

Green appeared as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, a werewolf, 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. 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.

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, Heroes and My Name Is Earl. Also voiced the character Joker in the game trilogy Mass Effect.

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Seth Green at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International for Family Guy.

Green went in to the casting of an animated television sitcom called Family Guy, created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the dysfunctional Griffin family and stars MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis and Mike Henry. Green primarily voices Chris Griffin, the teenage son, who is overweight, unintelligent and, in many respects, a younger version of his father, Peter Griffin; and Neil Goldman, a geeky and annoying neighbor.^[5] Green admittedly did an impression of the Buffalo Bill character from the thriller film The Silence of the Lambs during his audition.^[6] His main inspiration for Chris' voice came from envisioning how "Buffalo Bill" would sound if he were speaking through a PA system at a McDonald's.^[7]

After two episodes of the second season, Family Guy was taken off the network's permanent schedule and shown irregularly thereafter. The show returned in March 2000 to finish airing the second season which contained 21 episodes, all the cast came back for the series return. The third season contained 21 episodes and began airing from July 11, 2001 to February 14, 2002. During its second and third-season runs, Fox publicly announced that the show had been canceled at the end of the second season in 2002.^[8] In spite of the announced cancellation, in 2003 Fox decided to make the third season.^[9] During the third season, Fox announced that the show was canceled for good.^[10][11] The series was renewed later in 2005 for its fourth season due to strong DVD sales and its syndication on basic-cable networks.^[12][13] Once again Green and the rest of the cast came back for their voice works.

Neil Goldman is Mort's stereotypical nerdy son, who has an unrequited crush on Meg Griffin. He is the editor of the school newspaper and is part of the A/V Club. He is more confident than his father, so much so that he does not seem to realize that Meg has nothing but contempt for him. At one point in the series, both Neil and Meg become interns at Channel 5, and they share a kiss. Neil speaks with a lisp when he wears his retainer, but when he removes it, he speaks with a deep, smooth bass (cf. the apocryphal story that Demosthenes improved his elocutionary skills by holding stones in his mouth during everyday speech). Seth MacFarlane does his voice until Neil puts his retainer back in. He has made few appearances in the series in recent years, being absent entirely in the fifth and eighth seasons, and only making a silent cameo appearance during the ninth. "Peter's Daughter," "Stew-Roids" and "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter" are to date the only episodes since the fourth season where he has spoken (and in the latter, he only spoke one line).

Chris Griffin is the second child. He is fat, dim-witted, blond, and emotionally effusive. A recurring gag was that an evil monkey lives in his closet, which he found out was not evil in the episode Hannah Banana. He also tries to fit in with his peers but clearly doesn't, because he has the brains of his father.

Later work[link]

Green is a co-creator and producer of the stop motion TV series Robot Chicken, for which he does many voices and has even appeared in animated form. Green is friends with the band Fall Out Boy, making a cameo in their music video, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", and the band returned the favor with an appearance in Green's film Sex Drive. He also appeared 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 Internet celebrity Chris Crocker.^[14] He voiced the character Jeff "Joker" Moreau, pilot of the SSV Normandy and later the Normandy SR2, in the video games Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3.^[15][16] 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, appeared in the NBC show Heroes during the 2008–09 season.^[17] In January 2009, Green worked with David Faustino (Bud Bundy from Married with Children) for an episode of Faustino's show Star-ving – Faustino is often mistaken for Green.^[18]

On July 13, World Wrestling Entertainment's official website announced Green as the special guest host for the July 13 episode of WWE Raw, and on that night, Green competed in the main event, a six-man tag team match, which his team won by disqualification.^[19][20] He was also in attendance for WWE's biggest event of the year, WrestleMania XXVI on March 28, 2010.

Personal life[link]

Green and Clare Grant at the 2009 American Music Awards

Green married actress Clare Grant on May 1, 2010; the couple lives in Los Angeles.^[21] They worked together on Robot Chicken, Warren the Ape, and her "Geek and Gamer Girls Song" viral video.^[22][23]

Green filed papers at Los Angeles County Superior Court in August 2011 asking a judge to legally shorten his name to Seth Benjamin Green "to reflect my professional stage name."^[24] The change became official on October 20, 2011.^[25]

Seth Green has stated that his Scottish ancestry accounts for his ginger hair.

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Television[link]

Video games[link]

Awards and nomination[link]

Annie Awards

• 2008: Won, "Best Directing in an Animated Television Production" – Robot Chicken: Star Wars
• 2009: Won, "Best Writing in an Animated Television Production" – Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

Chlotrudis Awards

• 2004: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor" – Party Monster

Emmy Awards^[26]

• 2007, 2008, 2009: Nominated, "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)" – Robot Chicken (shared w/producers & writers)
• 2009, 2010, 2011: Nominated, Outstanding Voice-Over Performance – "Robot Chicken"
• 2010: Won, Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program - "Robot Chicken" (Shared w/producers, writers & directors)

Teen Choice Awards

• 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

Young Artist Awards

• 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

Slammy Awards

• 2009: Nominated, "Best Raw Guest Host"

See also[link]

• List of recurring That '70s Show characters
• List of celebrities who have been the subject of pranks on Punk'd

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Seth Green

• Official website
• Seth Green at the Internet Movie Database
• Seth Green Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film
• Robot Chicken page on AdultSwim.com
• Seth Green at Emmys.com