Seth Green

SETH Green is an actor of many talents. He has been in the film industry for more than 20 years and has done more than a hundred movies, TV shows and commercials.

Born in a small town called Overbrook Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1974 (can you believe he’s already 30?), Green is considered by many as the “Cameo King”. He has had cameos in many movies and guest starred in a number of TV shows, including Mr Belvedere, The Wonder Years, The Facts of Life, The X-Files, The Drew Carey Show and That ’70s Show.

Green grew up in Overbrook with his family - his father, Herb, was a math teacher while his mother Barbara was an artist. He also has an older sister named Kaela, but not much is known about her. Green went to a public school, where he used to play soccer. He got his first taste of acting at age six - he appeared in a stage performance of Hello Dolly! at summer camp.

He got his first big screen experience when he was 10, opposite Rob Lowe, Beau Bridges and Jodie Foster no less, in a film called The Hotel New Hampshire. In the movie, Green played an oddball character named Egg Berry, while Lowe, Bridges and Foster were his relatives. Years later, Foster set up her own production company and named it Egg Pictures, after Green’s character.

A few movies and TV shows later, Green landed a role in My Stepmother is an Alien, in which he plays Alyson Hannigan’s boyfriend. Green and Hannigan actually share a number of similarities - they’re both 30, they were both child stars, they have played weird and hilarious characters, they both used to play soccer in school, and they’re both Buffy, the Vampire Slayer alumni. Oh and they’re both kind of short (he’s 163cm, she’s 168cm).

Check out Green’s page on the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) and you’ll see that this actor is not into modern technology, so don’t expect him to reply your fan e-mail! He supposedly doesn’t even use his cell phone all the time and doesn’t have a fax machine.

However, he does have an official website www.sethgreenonline.com, which is maintained by somebody else. Unfortunately, the site has not been updated since last year. Still, you can check out Green’s pictures on the page, and play games too. It’s called the “Undress a Superstar” game, where you can dress a caricature of Green in many different clothes. Funny, but you do get bored after a while.

Green’s latest film is called Without a Paddle, a comedy thriller about a few city friends who go camping in the wilderness with disastrous results. The movie, which has just finished filming, was shot in New Zealand. Earlier last week, Green was asked to guest star in Sesame Street, a show he has loved all his life, and he accepted it. Must have been a dream come true for him.

Browse through Green’s filmography and you’ll notice that he’s quite the voice talent. Some of the programmes he has lent his voice to include The Family Guy (he plays the idiot older brother), 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (he voiced Eddie, the dog, in the show’s first season), The Comic Strip and Crank Yankers, a show that’s quite similar to Ashton Kutcher’s Punk’d, except they make crank telephone calls in Crank Yankers. By the way, Green has been Punk’d before by Kutcher.

However, perhaps Green’s most memorable character in his 20-plus-year career is Scott Evil, the temperamental son of Mike Myers’s Dr Evil of the Austin Powers movies. Green has appeared in all three of the Austin Powers movies, and was hilarious in all of them.

While Green isn’t that well known in this part of the globe, he is very much in demand in Hollywood. After all, he is the Cameo King, and many actors wants to share some screen time with him!