Seth Green Biography
Summary
"Sethard William Green" (born on February 8 1974, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor and television producer known for his acting roles as Doctor Evil's son Scott in the "Austin Powers" series of comedy films and Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". He voices the character of Chris Griffin on "Family Guy", and is the co-creator and producer of the stop motion comedy series "Robot Chicken". He acted in several other movies such as "Rat Race" and "The Italian Job (2003 film)".
Life and career
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Green's first moment of fame occurred the moment he was born, as his birth was used in a pamphlet on natural child birth. (... more) His first movie role was in the 1984 film, "A Billion for Boris". 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" costar Alyson Hannigan). He appeared in the 1980s film "Can't Buy Me Love", playing the part of Patrick Dempsey's little brother. He made a few appearances on the 1980s television series "The Wonder Years".
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 film "Can't Hardly Wait".
Green's first television appearances were in "Tales from the Darkside" and "Amazing Stories" in the mid-1980s. 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 shortlived series "Byrds of Paradise". Green also began appearing as Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne the werewolf in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" during seasons 2-4.
Green has also been featured in roles on "Greg the Bunny",
"Tucker", "The X-Files",
"That '70s Show", "Will & Grace", "Mad About Steve", and "Entourage". He is a co-creator and producer of the animated series "Robot Chicken". He also appeared as a cameo in the Fall Out Boy music video, This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, and also appeared in Weird Al Yankovic's White & Nerdy music video. In September 2007, he made an appearance on The Soup to imitate Chris Crocker. The YouTube video of his appearance currently has 1.4 million views. He will also be voicing the character of Joker, the pilot of the SSV Normandy, in the upcoming Bioware video game Mass Effect for the Xbox 360.
Green is also the co-creator (with Hugh Sterbakov) of the comic "Freshmen", published by Top Cow Productions.
Other Media
Seth Green appeared in the "Johnny Bravo" episode 'Back on Shaq.' He was said to have beaten Shaquille O'Neal in a face-off once. When Shaquille and his good-luck person Johnny made it to the face-off, Seth Green showed his good-luck character Huckleberry Hound.
Besides doing a lot of voices for "Robot Chicken", Seth Green has also appeared as himself in some episodes.
Seth Green has recently appeared on a YouTube parody 'Leave Chris Crocker alone', originally featured on "The Soup". The video parodies Crocker's tearful plea to leave Britney Spears alone, with notable moments including Green pausing to reapply his Crocker-esque eyeliner and plugging "Robot Chicken".
Seth also plays the voice of 'Joker' in the game Mass Effect
External links
(Robot Chicken page on AdultSwim.com)
Credit
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article about Seth Green.
