Seth Green Biography

Seth Benjamin Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and director. Green is the creator and executive producer and most-frequent voice on Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, where he is also a writer and director. He directed many of the Robot Chicken specials including Robot Chicken: Star Wars and DC Comics Special. His feature films include Airborne, The Italian Job, Party Monster, Can't Hardly Wait, Without a Paddle and the Austin Powers series. Green is also known for his role as Chris Griffin on Fox's Family Guy and previously as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Greg the Bunny. He voices Lieutenant Gibbs in Titan Maximum and Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the Mass Effect video game series. Green has appeared in movies such as Rat Race, America's Sweethearts, Old Dogs, as a child in Woody Allen's Radio Days, and in the horror films Idle Hands and Stephen King's It.

Early life

Seth Green was born Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green in Overbrook Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Barbara (Gesshel) and Herbert Green. He has one sister, Kaela. Green later legally changed his name to Seth Benjamin Green "to reflect my professional stage name." He is of Russian, Scottish, and Polish descent. Green started acting at the age of 7. His early comic influences included Monty Python, Blackadder, Saturday Night Live, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Porky's and Caddyshack.

Career

Early work

Green's first movie roles were in the 1984 films Billions for Boris and The Hotel New Hampshire, the second film cast him alongside Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe. He appeared in the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love, playing Patrick Dempsey's character's little brother, Chuckie Miller. He starred in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) as Joe, a 1930s-40s boy based on Allen, 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 1984, Green portrayed Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer in the Jell-O Gelatin Pops commercials featuring The Little Rascals. 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. Green appeared in the film It (as Richie Tozier, age 12), the horror film Ticks, 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 Party Monster and Old Dogs. 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. 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. As an actor in the series he was close to co-star Alyson Hannigan because they were lovers in the show. He played a calm, mild mannered band member who gets turned into a werewolf. He is very popular among fans of the series. Green has starred on Fox's Greg the Bunny and guest-starred on The X-Files, That '70s Show, Will & Grace, MADtv, Reno 911!, Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, The Wonder Years, Heroes, The Facts of Life and My Name Is Earl.

Family Guy

Green provides the voice of Chris for the animated television sitcom Family Guy, created by Seth MacFarlane for Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the dysfunctional Griffin family and also 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, and Neil Goldman, a neighbor of the Griffins. Green admittedly did an impression of the Buffalo Bill character from the thriller film The Silence of the Lambs during his audition. 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.

Later work

Green is a co-creator, co-producer, writer, director, and most frequent voice of the Emmy-winning stop-motion sketch comedy 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. Later in the same year, he worked with one of his idols, Robin Williams in comedy film Old Dogs, which also starred John Travolta. 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. He was also in attendance for WWE's biggest event of the year, WrestleMania XXVI on March 28, 2010. Green guest starred in the third season of the acclaimed sitcom Husbands. Green became the new voice of Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beginning in its third season (following Jason Biggs' departure from the role).

Personal life

After getting engaged on New Year's Eve 2009, Green married actress Clare Grant on May 1, 2010 in Northern California. The two currently live in Los Angeles. They worked together on Robot Chicken, Warren the Ape, and her "Geek and Gamer Girls Song" viral video.

From an interview with The Onion A.V. Club from the year 2000, Green was quoted for saying,"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." Green later clarified in his 2013 Reddit AMA: "I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I find it sad and unfortunate how many wars are fought and lives are lost in a quest to insist that someone else pray the same way you do. I have a deep belief in the divinity of the Universe, and I had no ability to really comprehend the scope or magnitude of all the things that I don't understand. But I've never been the guy who says "I don't believe in god" or "I don't believe in some kind of overlaying, governing force that makes everything symmetrical" and I've never been interested in being anyone's spokesman, whether it's organized religion or the opposite. I'm my own spokesperson. I take great pains to always say I only speak for me."

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Billions for Boris	Benjamin 'Ape-Face' Andrews
1984	The Hotel New Hampshire	'Egg' Berry
1986	Willy/Milly	Malcolm
1987	Radio Days	Joe
1987	Can't Buy Me Love	Chuckie Miller
1988	Big Business	Jason
1988	My Stepmother Is an Alien	Fred Glass
1990	Missing Parents	Leo
1990	Pump Up the Volume	Joey
1990	It	Young Richie Tozier
1991	Our Shining Moment	Wheels
1992	The Double 0 Kid	Chip
1993	Ticks	Tyler Burns
1993	Arcade	Stilts
1993	Airborne	Wiley
1993	The Day My Parents Ran Away	Leo
1995	Notes from Underground	Punk Neighbor
1995	White Man's Burden	3rd Youth at Hot Dog Stand
1996	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday	Danny Green
1997	Boys Life 2	Homophobe 2	Segment: "Nunzio's Second Cousin"
1997	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	Scott Evil
1998	Can't Hardly Wait	Kenny Fisher
1998	Enemy of the State	Selby	Uncredited role
1999	Idle Hands	Mick
1999	Stonebrook	Cornelius
1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Scott Evil
2001	Rock Star 101	Le'Von	Short film
2001	The Trumpet of the Swan	Boyd	Voice role
2001	The Attic Expeditions	Douglas
2001	Josie and the Pussycats	Travis (Du Jour band member)
2001	America's Sweethearts	Danny Wax
2001	Rat Race	Duane Cody
2001	Knockaround Guys	Johnny Marbles
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Scott Evil
2003	Party Monster	James St. James
2003	The Italian Job	Lyle (a.k.a. "Napster")
2004	Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed	Patrick Wisely
2004	Without a Paddle	Dan Mott
2005	Be Cool	Shotgun (Music video producer)	Uncredited role
2005	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Chris Griffin, Various voices
2005	The Best Man	Murray
2006	Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo	Jonah "the taper guy"
2006	The TV Set	Slut Wars Host
2008	Sex Drive	Ezekiel
2009	Old Dogs	Craig White
2011	Mars Needs Moms	Milo	Motion capture
2011	The Story of Luke	Zack
2013	Sexy Evil Genius	Zachary Newman
2013	I Know That Voice	Himself	Documentary
2014	Guardians of the Galaxy	Howard the Duck	Uncredited voice cameo
2014	The Identical	Dino
2014	Yellowbird	Yellowbird (voice)	Voice role
2015	Krampus	Lumpy (in-suit performer)
2016	Holidays	Pete Gunderson
2017	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Christopher Guest	Post-production
2017	Coup D'etat	Dr. Charles Seaver	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Young People's Specials	Charlie	Episode: "Charlie's Christmas Secret"
1985	ABC Afterschool Special	Tommy Sanders	Episode: "I Want to Go Home"
1985	Tales from the Darkside	Timmy	Episode: "Monsters in My Room"
1986	Amazing Stories	Lance	Episode: "The Sitter"
1986	Spenser: For Hire	Andy Chandler	Episode: "The Hopes and Fears"
1988	The Facts of Life	Adam Brinkerhoff	2 episodes
1989	Free Spirit	Joey	Episode: "Too Much of a Good Thing"
1989	Mr. Belvedere	Louis	Episodes: "Big" and "Paper Mill"
1990	Life Goes On	William Butler	Episodes: "The Spring Fling" and "The Visitor"
1990	It	Young Richie Tozier (Beep Beep Richie)	2 episodes
1991	Good & Evil	David	6 episodes
1992	Evening Shade	Larry Phipps	Episode: "Hasta la Vista"
1992	The Wonder Years	Jimmy Donnelly	2 episodes
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Wizard (voice)	Episode: "I Am the Night"
1993	Beverly Hills, 90210	Wayne	Episode: "The Game Is Chicken"
1993	The X-Files	Emil	Episode: "Deep Throat"
1993	seaQuest DSV	Mark "Wolfman"	Episode: "Photon Bullet"
1994	The Byrds of Paradise	Harry Byrd	8 episodes
1994	Weird Science	Lubec	Episode: "Lisa's Virus"
1995	Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories	Termite	Miniseries
1995	Step by Step	Danny	Episode: "Head of the Class"
1996	Something So Right	Napoleon	Episode: "Pilot"
1997	Pearl	Bob	Episode: "Mission ImPearlsible"
1997	Mad About You	Bobby Rubenfeld	Episode: "Guardianhood"
1997	The Drew Carey Show	The MC	Episode: "That Thing You Don't"
1997	Temporarily Yours	David Silver	6 episodes
1997-2000	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Daniel "Oz" Osbourne	39 episodes
1998	Cybill	Jaybo	Episode: "Cybill Sheridan's Day Off"
1999-2003, 2005-present	Family Guy	Chris Griffin, Neil Goldman, Various voices	Main role
1999	Angel	Daniel "Oz" Osbourne	Episode: "In the Dark"
1999	Saturday Night Live	Himself	Episode: "Sarah Michelle Gellar/Backstreet Boys"
1999-2000	Batman Beyond	Nelson Nash, Dempsey, Blade's Boyfriend (voice)	8 episodes
1999-2000	100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd	Eddie McDowd (voice)	13 episodes
2000-2005	MADtv	Brightling	4 episodes
2000	Tucker	Himself	3 episodes
2002	Greg the Bunny	Jimmy Bender	13 episodes
2002	Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?	Various voices	4 episodes
2003-2004	That '70s Show	Mitch Miller	5 episodes
2003	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Himself (voice)	Episode: "The Dressing"
2005	Punk'd	Himself	Episode: "1.5"
2004	Married to the Kellys	Dr. Jim Coglan	Episode: "A Portrait of Susan"
2004, 2007	Crank Yankers	Russel (voice)	2 episodes
2004	Sesame Street	Vinny	Episode 4074
2005	Will & Grace	Randall Finn	Episode: "Friends with Benefits"
2005-2009	American Dad!	Various voices	3 episodes
2005-present	Robot Chicken	Various voices	Also co-creator, director, writer, executive producer
2006	Four Kings	Barry	13 episodes
2006	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	Dog (voice)	Episode: "Guide to April Fool's Day and Excuses"
2006	The Secret Policeman's Ball	Private Parts, Mt. Pink	Special
2006-2008	Entourage	Himself	3 episodes
2007	Grey's Anatomy	Nick	2 episodes: "Season 4, Episode 9 and 10", "Crash Into Me"
2007	Robot Chicken: Star Wars	Various voices	Special
2008	Reno 911!	Rick the Manager	Episode: "Undercover at Burger Cousin"
2008	My Name Is Earl	Buddy	Episode: "The Magic Hour"
2008	Heroes	Sam	2 episodes
2008, 2009	Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy	Various voices	3 episodes
2008	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II	Various voices	Special
2009, 2014	WWE Raw	Host	Special
2009-2010	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Todo 360, Ion Papanoida (voice)	4 episodes
2009	Titan Maximum	Various voices	9 episodes; also executive producer
2009	The Cleveland Show	Chris Griffin (voice)	2 episodes
2009	The Venture Brothers	Lance Hale (voice)	Episode: "Self-Medication"
2010	Warren The Ape	Himself	Episode: "Amends"
2010	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III	Various voices	Special
2011, 2013	MAD	Various voices	3 episodes
2011	Delete	Lucifer	2 episodes
2012-2014	Phineas and Ferb	Monty Monogram (voice)	5 episodes
2012	Franklin and Bash	Jango	Episode: "Jango and Rossi"
2012	Dan Vs.	Ahkenrah (voice)	Episode: "The Mummy"
2012	How I Met Your Mother	Daryl LaCorte	Episode: "The Final Page"
2012, 2013	Holliston	Gustavo	2 episodes
2012	Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr	Roaster	Special
2012	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special	Various voices	Special
2013	Conan	Conan O'Brien	Episode: "Occupy Conan: When Outsourcing Goes Too Far"
2013	Men at Work	Homeless Guy	Episode: "Will Work for Milo"
2013-2014	Dads	Eli Sachs	18 episodes
2013-2015	Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.	Rick Jones/A-Bomb, Rocket Raccoon (voice)	Main role
2013	Mom	Paul Solman	Episode: "Corned Beef and Handcuffs"
2013	Husbands	The Officiant	Episode: "I Do Over"
2014	Avengers Assemble	Rocket Raccoon (voice)	Episode "Guardians and Space Knights"
2014-present	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Leonardo, Sir George, Triceraton	Main role (season 3-present)
2015	Community	Scrunch (Tech Billionaire/Greendale Community College Owner)	Episode: "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television"
2016	Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade	Squint (voice)	Special
2016	Castle	Linus (voice)	Uncredited
2016	Broad City	Jared	2 episodes
2016	The Loud House	Loki	Episode: "One of the Boys"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Team Unicorn: G33K & G4M3R Girls	Himself
2012	Saber 2: The Body Wash Strikes Back	Director
2013-present	Tabletop	Himself	2 episodes: "Star Wars: X-Wing," "Libertalia"
2015	Con Man	Casey	Episode: "Thank You for Your Service"
2015-present	SuperMansion	Various characters (voice)	Also executive producer
2016-present	Camp WWE	Producer

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Make My Video	Band Member
1994	Playtoons	Sneetches, Peter T. Hooper, Crowd #1	Video game: "Uncle Archibald" Video game: "The Secret of the Castle"
	Storybook Weaver	Various characters
2004	Storybook Weaver Deluxe
2006	Family Guy Video Game!	Chris Griffin
2007	Mass Effect	Flight Lieutenant Jeff 'Joker' Moreau	Voice and likeness
2010	Mass Effect 2
2012	Mass Effect 3
	Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse	Chris Griffin
2014	Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff
2016	Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare	Poindexter
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Portal Power	Leonardo

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
1989	Young Artist Awards	Best Young Actor Guest-Starring in a Syndicated Family Comedy, Drama, or Special	The Facts of Life
1992		Outstanding Young Comedian in a Television Series	Good & Evil
2000	Teen Choice Awards	TV - Choice Actor	Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2002		TV - Choice Actor, Comedy	Greg the Bunny
2005		Choice Movie Dance Scene	Be Cool
2006	Spike Video Game Awards	Best Supporting Male Performance	Family Guy Video Game!
2006		Best Cast	Family Guy Video Game!
2007	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Lust for Puppets"
2008	Annie Awards	Best Animated Television Production	Robot Chicken: Star Wars
2008		Directing in an Animated Television Production	Robot Chicken: Star Wars
2008	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program	Robot Chicken: Star Wars
2009	Annie Award	Best Animated Television Production	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
2009		Writing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
2009	Slammy Awards	Raw Guest Host of the Year	WWE Raw
2009	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
2009		Outstanding Voice-Over Performance	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
2010		Outstanding Short-format Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Full-Assed Christmas Special" ("Dear Consumer")
2010		Outstanding Voice-Over Performance	Robot Chicken
2011	Annie Awards	Writing in a Television Production	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
2011	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
2011		Outstanding Short-format Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Robot Chicken's DP Christmas Special"
2011		Outstanding Voice-Over Performance	Robot Chicken
2012	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Animated Series	Robot Chicken
2012	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Short-format Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Fight Club Paradise"
2013	Annie Awards	Best General Audience Animated Television Production	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special
2013	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Short-format Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special"
2013		Outstanding Voice-Over Performance	Robot Chicken
2014		Outstanding Short-format Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Born Again Virgin Christmas Special"
2014		Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise
2015	Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production	Robot Chicken
2015	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Short-format Animated Program	Robot Chicken, episode: "Chipotle Miserable"
2015		Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance	Robot Chicken

See also

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