Seth Green – Hollywood Celebrity, Actress

Date of Birth

Seth was built-in in Philadelphia and has formed ceaseless as an amateur in blur and television back he was seven. Seth and Matthew Senreich created/executive produce/write and absolute the Emmy-winning “Robot Chicken” via their Stoopid Monkey Prods. Green provides the articulation of Chris on “Family Guy” and is consulting on Lucasfilm’s accessible activated comedic “Star Wars” series.

Spouse

Clare Grant
  

(1 May 2010 – present)

Trivia

Has an earlier sister, Kaela Green.

He had a allotment filmed for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992); the allotment was larboard on the acid allowance floor, but a still from the arena appeared on the rear of the bartering absolution videocassette box. Seth eventually got to be in Buffy, though, on the TV series.

At 13-years-old he played Alyson Hannigan’s admirer ‘Fred’ in My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988). Ten years later, at the age of 23, he played her admirer afresh back he landed the role of ‘Oz’ on the TV appearance “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997).

Seth is thanked in the sleeve addendum of Blink 182’s “Enema of the State”. Blink additionally acknowledgment Idle Hands (1999) and Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) — both movies featuring a Blink 182 song and accordingly both accept Seth Green in them. Seth additionally had an bearding role in Enemy of the State (1997).

Was already room-mates with accompanist Brian Evans in California. In Macleans Magazine (Canada), Evans alleged the acquaintance “Unfortunate for Seth”, abacus that “I wasn’t abiding abundant to alive alone, never apperception accept a roommate.”

Named #7 of the Top Ten Sexiest Men of the Buffy / Angel cosmos in a fan poll by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine (2004).

Not abounding bodies apperceive that he was amenable for one of the best abracadabra catchphrases of the 1990s. In 1992 he appeared in a bartering for Rally’s Burgers as an abhorrent drive-thru accountant who kept repeating the band “Cha-CHING!!” over and over afresh and the band entered the accepted culture.

Based the abrasive articulation of Chris Griffin in “Family Guy” (1999) on the Buffalo Bill appearance from The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

He played Lyle in The Italian Job (2003). His Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) co-star Michael Caine appeared in the aboriginal The Italian Job(1969).

Has fabricated his access in two abstracted films to two abstracted Clay Aiken songs. They are “Invisible” in Without a Paddle (2004) and “The Way” in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).Was amid the guests at Jessica Simpson’s 25th altogether party.

Revealed in a 2005 “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” account that he had auditioned for the American Beauty (1999) role that eventually went toWes Bentley, and he was the runner-up for the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) role that went to Elijah Wood.

Seth is not accompanying to Bruce Seth Green, who directed some episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997). On occasion, some sources abash the two and accept accustomed Seth as the director.

1998: Called on Entertainment Weekly’s “It List” of the 100 Most Creative Bodies in Entertainment.

Graduated aerial academy with honors.

Attended the aforementioned average academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as pop artisan Eve.

Has been continued time accompany with extra Sarah Michelle Gellar, and has collaborated with her absolutely a few times. They can be begin calm inScooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997) and “Robot Chicken” (2005).

E! Entertainment Television’s poll proclaimed him the hottest adolescent amateur in Hollywood.

Entertainment Weekly already called him Best TV Actor.

At the aforementioned time he was offered the allotment in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), he was additionally offered a role in Chairman of the Board (1998), starring Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson. Seth said authoritative the best amid the two films was difficult at the time. [source: Seth Green account on NPR, Feb 23, 2005].

Engaged to Clare Grant [February 25, 2010].

Along with Chi Muoi Lo, he is one of alone two actors to arise in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and the consecutive television adaptation”Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997). However, his scenes in the above were cut from the final adaptation of the film.

Personal Quotes

There are two kinds of bodies in this world: Michael Jackson admirers and losers.

[May 20, 2003] Accomplishing article because it’s quote-unquote “a acceptable career move” doesn’t absolutely address to me. There’s never a answerable acceptable career move except accomplishing acceptable work.

[of actuality famous] It’s a aeon of adjustment. I’ve gotten a lot bigger at it. After alive for 18 years, all of a abrupt I became acknowledged on a akin area added bodies knew it. It’s not a cat you can put aback in the bag.[about actuality a adolescent star:] My adolescence success came and went absolute fast. Between 12 and 16, I grew–as abundant as I was activity to, anyway–and no best looked the same. Like best adolescent actors, I begin it a difficult adjustment. Still, I’ve done so abounding things that I wasn’t associated with one thing. I’m an actor, not a celebrity. Back acceptance became an affair a few years ago, allotment of me acquainted undeserving. Desperate to advance my popularity, I was assuming all the time. Then, I bent a glimpse of myself at the MTV Music Awards — dressed in leather, acquisitive for jokes–and set about alteration my habits. Now that I’ve chock-full aggravating so hard, I’m added adequate in my skin.

[on improvising:] . . . three movies with Mike Myers absolutely alone me up. He told me that there’s a about-face in your academician that censors you, makes you second-guess. You accept to about-face it off, shut out the abhorrence of actuality ashamed and authoritative a mistake. Actuality a acceptable improvisational amateur is all about actuality in the scene, accepting out of your head. Conan O’Brien is my admired accuser because he pays absorption and has no bold plan.

[of his appearance Lyle in The Italian Job (2003)] There’s no greater way to accretion an audience’s accord than by actuality unfortunate. My capital ambition was to not accomplish him this mono-dimensional computer guy. There had to be a acumen this guy could adhere with this boxy crew. I didn’t demand him to be dorky, but a little adverse and a little embittered, the affectionate of guy who has this massive motorcycle he can’t alike ride.

[on his appearance Lyle in The Italian Job (2003), who speaks a lot of abstruse jargon] I don’t accept in e-mail. I rarely use a corpuscle buzz and I don’t accept a fax. But allotment of the acumen I got this job is that I’m acceptable at authoritative complicated abstruse agreement complete normal. It sounds obnoxious, but I analyze it to accomplishing [William Shakespeare]. You aloof amount out the affecting agreeable of the band and go with that. It doesn’t amount what you’re adage if you appear from an honest place. Though best bodies don’t apperceive bisected the words, you don’t accept to impaired down. I abhorrence back they appearance a policeman adage “I’ve got a 3-U at Baker Street . . . breaking and entering.” No one talks like that.

[May 14, 1999, on improvising chat as Scott Evil in scenes with Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)] [Dr. Evil’s] accomplished “Shhh!” affair was fabricated up on the spot. It’s a attestation to Mike Myers’ brilliance. They aloof accumulate activity afterwards the accounting arena is over, and fucking abracadabra happens.

[May 14, 1999, on arena the appearance Oz in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997)] The calligraphy that wooed me was for the adventure area I aboriginal about-face into a werewolf. Before I signed, [producer Joss Whedon] said, “Read this. This is what we’re thinking”. It had all this emblematic being and gave able shades to the character. I said, “Yeah, I demand to be a allotment of this”.

[on Marilyn Manson] I’ve met him a agglomeration and afraid out a scattering of times. He’s great, actual acute and abreast about apple history and politics. Always fun to be around.

[on Macaulay Culkin] He had affectionate of a boundless success at a adolescent age, admitting I aloof affectionate of plodded forth auspiciously after acceptable acclaimed until abundant later. But we absolutely accompanying to anniversary added as far as disposition and aggregate experience, and aloof our opinions about bodies in the business. I anticipate actual awful of him; he’s an excellent, accomplished friend.

[about his “breakthrough” role] Oh gosh, “Third Youth at Hot Dog Stand in White Man’s Burden (1995) . . . I anticipate [it] was absolutely a defining moment for me. It was a time back I knew that I was absolutely authoritative it as an actor.[on his abrupt role on “Sesame Street” (1969)] I alleged them up to see if I could get on the show. I was like, “Am I acclaimed abundant that I can alarm and ask to be on ‘Sesame Street’ yet?” And I assumption I was. So they were like, “What do you demand to do?” And I’m like, “Anything, aloof put me on with some Muppets, please!” And I absolutely flew to do “Sesame Street” anon afterwards filming Without a Paddle (2004). I flew aback from New Zealand, I was in Los Angeles for beneath than four hours, again I flew to New York and got in at midnight for a 7 a.m. call. That’s why I attending so ashen on it. But it was a absolutely absurd experience. They pulled a agglomeration of the old Muppets out of accumulator and let me comedy with them, so I got to accommodated “Grover” and “Oscar”, and “Big Bird” and “Cookie Monster”, and “The Count” and “Bert” and “Ernie”. It was the greatest.

[on authoritative Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)] Absolutely fun. It was one of those movies area you get that offer, and it’s like, “Is this gonna aching or advice me? Or neither? Is it aloof article I get to do?” And I had a abundant chat with a acquaintance of mine. We aloof bent that it wasn’t annihilation that would aching me, career-wise. It was a fun befalling to assignment with accompany of mine, to do a absolutely fun kids’ cine that was iconic in pop culture. You know, it was an accessible job. It was a blast, too. I got to abrasion glasses and be a building curator.

“Four Kings” (2006) was a amazing bulk of potential, I thought. I was actual aflame to do that appearance with the guys who created “Will & Grace” (1998). I admired the casting that got put calm and it, unfortunately, was at a time back NBC was absolutely cryptic as to what affectionate of shows they capital to be making. And actuality was a appearance about constant best accompany that was declared to be how these guys attending out for anniversary other, and how your best accompany are the bodies that apperceive you the best and can bits on you the worst. Instead, at atomic already an episode, one of us said to another, “I aloof don’t apperceive if we can be accompany any more” over some affectionate of antic conflict. So instead of it actuality a appearance adulatory friendship, it became a appearance about these camp conflicts amid us that were somehow authoritative us not absorbed in actuality friends.

Without a Paddle (2004) is one of the best adventures I’ve had authoritative a movie, but additionally the hardest cine I’ve anytime made, because it was so physical. And cold. And exhausting. And aggregate in that cine is us in our underwear in some affectionate of cruel environment. But three months abandoned in altered areas of New Zealand with Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard – I couldn’t accept been happier. We aloof had fun every day. It was a really, absolutely abundant experience.

Knockaround Guys (2001) is the cine that I about larboard “Buffy” to do. This was an absurd befalling that got presented to me. The guys that had accounting Rounders (1998) were administering their aboriginal feature. Lawrence Bender was bearing it, a almost alien Vin Diesel was starring in it. Barry Pepper and Andy Davoli, and again Tom Noonan, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper. So it was a abundant befalling for me to comedy article that I’d never played before: a darker, added complicated, affectionate of adverse character. And that movie, it aloof got angry up in politics. New Line was activity to absolution it, and they had had a cord of failures arch up to it and were affectionate of bottoming out their administration account and absorption aggregate on starting The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). They were about to put all their money into developing and bearing three back-to-back movies, and as a result, a ton of pictures got shelved until they could amount out what to do with them. Some were activity anon to DVD, some were gonna get appear on cable, some were still actuality captivated out for theatrical, and they acquainted like “Knockaround Guys” was a affected release. So it got captivated for a while, and abominably that anguish up attractive like . . . It got captivated continued abundant that Vin Diesel became a big brilliant and got paid $20 actor to do xXx (2002), and again the business bodies thought, “Well, we should aloof delay until ‘xXx’ comes out to absolution this movie, as against to aggravating to put it out beforehand”. And what that looked like was an adept release, arch bodies to accept that the cine was no acceptable and that they were aloof aggravating to capitalize on the success of “xXx” and Vin acceptable a bigger star. It was aloof unfortunate, because I absolutely admired the movie, and I don’t anticipate it anytime got apparent by anyone, and there was affectionate of a stigma about it that it was shelved for a abridgement of quality, which aloof wasn’t the case.

“Family Guy” (1999) ‘s one of the best jobs I’ve anytime had. Ever. It’s a appearance I adulation to watch, so it’s a adventure to get to be on it. It’s a adequately accessible job to do, and I accept a lot of fun. And the actuality that admirers are responding, too, it assault my mind. I mean, it’s agitative that bodies like it. It makes me feel like there’s a affinity in consciousness… No, that’s not a acceptable way to explain it. I feel like there’s a agnate faculty of humor. It’s nice to feel like I’m not crazy for cerebration the appearance is funny. Apperceive what I mean?

(2011, on why he thinks he’s formed steadily over the years) I’m like the everyman in a funny way. I’m abbreviate abundant to be nonthreatening but ambrosial abundant to kiss the babe in a movie. The guys demand to accept a beer with me and the girls anticipate I’m a beautiful another to their asshole boyfriend. It’s additionally because I’m a apprentice of pop culture. I get how pop ability relates to the bread-and-butter atmosphere and backroom and our claimed lives. The bits we abound up watching and alert to has a huge appulse on us and reflects what’s accident in the beyond world.(2011, on the advantages of actuality short) I adulation people’s reactions sometimes. Back we go out about and my wife looks great, I like to anticipate everybody’s saying, “Hey, how appear she’s fucking that guy?” But I’ve been abbreviate all my life, so it is what it is, and I don’t accept an affair with it. The alone affair it determines is what genitalia I can play. I’m not activity to be the alarming ­asshole cop who all-overs bottomward the absolute precinct.

(2011) I had a huge abrupt acquaintance on LSD back I was 17. I accomplished how abundant I had become self-consumed, how abundant absorption I was advantageous to my own capacity and not abundant to the apple or bodies about me. It was like, Oh my gosh, there are worlds aloft worlds anon afore my eyes and all I’ve got to do is interact. I would never do acerbic again, but I’m absolutely animated I did it back I did.

(2011, on what he brand to do back he’s not working) Travel. That’s how I absorb my money. A associate of abundance and I took a cruise from Africa to Micronesia. It was awesome. Thailand, Palau. I don’t buy watches or jewelry, but I’ll absorb a shitload on a cruise to Dubai. Dubai was crazy. I’m awe-inspiring acclaimed in Dubai because there’s so abundant Western business there and the bodies are adopting Western culture. Everywhere I went, I got tagged. I anesthetized by this erect absolutist with the abounding getup. He absolved accomplished me and went “Hey” with the little arch nod. I was like, “No shit. All right, man. Good to apperceive The Italian Job and Austin Powers fabricated it this far.” We’re active in crazy times.

Where Are They Now

(October 2003) In Wellington, New Zealand, filming Without a Paddle (2004)

(November 2006) Currently alive on his appearance “Robot Chicken” (2005).

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