Bodhi Elfman

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Bodhi Elfman
Born
Bodhi Pine Saboff

(1969-07-19) July 19, 1969 (age 55)
OccupationActor
Years active1990–present
Spouse
(m. 1995)
Children2
Parents
Relatives Danny Elfman (uncle)

Bodhi Pine Elfman (born Bodhi Pine Saboff) [1] is an American actor. He is the son of filmmaker Richard Elfman and Rhonda Joy Saboff. He is best known for playing the roles of Avram Hader in the Fox television series Touch and for his recurring role in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as Peter "Mr. Scratch" Lewis.

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Career

Elfman has had film roles in Mercury Rising , Collateral , Godzilla and Armageddon , and smaller parts in The Mod Squad , Keeping the Faith , and Gone in 60 Seconds . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Elfman starred in the UPN television series Freedom , alongside Holt McCallany, Scarlett Chorvat and Darius McCrary, and in Pirates of Silicon Valley alongside Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall. [6] [7] He appeared in the short-lived ABC television series Hiller and Diller, guest-starred in an episode of Sliders , [8] [9] and was part of the recurring cast of Touch . Elfman also guest-starred in his wife Jenna's television show Dharma & Greg , playing a performance artist who asks Dharma to be a part of his living display gallery. [10]

In 2012, Elfman and his wife Jenna started their podcast, Kicking and Screaming by Jenna and Bodhi Elfman. [11]

Personal life

Bodhi Pine Elfman was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the city's Hollywood district. He is the son of actor/director Richard Elfman and Rhonda Joy Saboff, grandson of author Blossom Elfman, and nephew of composer Danny Elfman. [12] In February 1991, he met Jennifer Mary Butala (Jenna Elfman) during an audition for a Sprite commercial. [13] Four years later, they were married on February 18, 1995. Bodhi is of Jewish descent, and Jenna [14] was raised Catholic. When they met he was a practicing Scientologist. Jenna became a Scientologist after her husband introduced her to its teachings.

In 2000, Bodhi and Jenna Elfman bought the home owned by Madonna, a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) 1920s house on a gated two-acre lot in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles. Having paid US$4 million, they later sold the property in April 2004 for US$4.7 million to actress Katey Sagal, of Married... with Children fame. [15] [16]

Their first child, son Story, was born in 2007, and their second child, son Easton, was born in 2010. [14]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992 Sneakers Centurion S&L Night Guard
1993 Stepmonster Photo CashierDirect to video film
1994 Shrunken Heads Booger Martin
1994 Wes Craven's New Nightmare TV Studio P.A.
1995RippleUnknownShort film
1996 A Very Brady Sequel Coffee CustomerCredited as Bodhi Pine Elfman
1996Going HomeDanielShort film
1997 The Others Douglas "Sluggo" Zelov
1998 Slappy and the Stinkers "Tag"Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman
1998 Mercury Rising Leo PedranskiCredited as Bodhi Pine Elfman
1998 Girl Derek
1998 Godzilla Freddie
1998 Armageddon Math Guy
1998 Enemy of the State NSA Agent VanCredited as Bodhi Pine Elfman
1999 The Mod Squad Gilbert, Skinny FreakCredited as Bodhi Pine Elfman
1999Rituals and ResolutionsArnoShort film
2000 Keeping the Faith Howard, The Casanova
2000 Gone in 60 Seconds "Fuzzy" Frizzel
2000 Almost Famous Alice's Manager (director's cut only)Uncredited
2000 Sand Max
2001 The Shrink Is In Charley
2002LostHughShort film
2002Hip, Edgy, Sexy, CoolUnknownOpening film at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
2004 Collateral Young Professional Man
2004 Funky Monkey Drummond
2006Love Hollywood StyleJames
2006 Love Comes to the Executioner Krist Skolnik
2008StruckJoel (lead)Short film
2009TomorrowNickShort film
2011Angela WrightMr. TaylorShort film
2012Desperate MeasuresHeShort film
2014LennonGreg MayburnShort film
2015Medicine MenBaker
2015 Whitehorse KennyShort film
2016Sing For Your SupperGlenShort film
2018 Electromagnetic Stanley
2019 Aliens, Clowns & Geeks Eddy Pine / Clown Zippy
2020 Browse Kyle

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991 Life Goes On MarkEpisodes: "Life After Death", "Out of the Mainstream"
1992 Doing Time on Maple Drive JoeTV movie
1992 Melrose Place MessengerEpisode: "Picture Imperfect"
1993Double DeceptionBurglar #1TV movie
1993 Phenom BurtEpisode: "Angela's Wild Ride"
1993 Sisters BusboyEpisode: "The Best Intentions"
1994 Lifestories: Families in Crisis SeanEpisode: "Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict"
1994 Married... with Children ClerkEpisode: "Dial B for Virgin"

Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman

1994 Step by Step GarryEpisodes: "Great Expectations", "Something Wild", "I'll Be Home for Christmas",

Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman

1995 Clerks RayTV pilot
1996 Ellen Surfer DudeEpisode: "Too Hip for the Room"

Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman

1996 The Faculty UnknownEpisode: "The Brain Teaser"
1996 Hang Time BobEpisode: "Fake ID-ology"
1996–1997 3rd Rock from the Sun Clerk / OrderlyEpisodes: "My Mother the Alien", "I Brake for Dick"

Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman

1997 Ink Kevin3 episodes
1997 Hiller and Diller Unknown
1997 George & Leo BellboyEpisode: "The Halloween Show"
1998 Sliders Trevor BlueEpisode: "Genesis" (as Bodhi Pine Elfman)
1998 Party of Five UnknownEpisode: "Separation Anxiety"

Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman

1998HollyweirdTreyTV movie
1998–2001 Dharma & Greg Terry / Survivor / Ted3 episodes
1999 Pirates of Silicon Valley John GilmoreOriginal TNT TV movie

Credited as Bodhi Pine Elfman

2000 The Huntress Toby AndersEpisode: "The Kid"
2000 Veronica's Closet NeilEpisodes: "Veronica Loses Her Olive Again", "Veronica's Clips"
2000–2001 Freedom Londo PearlMain cast; 11 episodes
2001 Providence Suspicious GuyEpisode: "Falling"
2003 ER NickyEpisode: "Finders Keepers"
2003 Without a Trace Chris RolandEpisode: "No Mas"
2003 Dragnet Kevin O'MalleyEpisode: "Daddy's Girl", aka "The 2003 series: L.A. Dragnet", as part of the Dragnet franchise
2003 Las Vegas StevenEpisode: "Donny, We Hardly Knew Ye"
2003 Karen Sisco FredEpisode: "Nobody's Perfect"
2003 Coyote Waits Odell ReddAdapted novel Coyote Waits for television – aired on PBS
2004 Charmed Kyle DonieEpisode: "Witch Wars"
2005Fielder's ChoiceLouTV movie
2005Misadventures in MatchmakingAndy5 episodes
2009 The Mentalist Rick TieglerEpisode: "Russet Potatoes"
2010 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Rylan GaussEpisode: "418/427"
2011Handsome Sportz KlubLeopold Von Gugenstein3 episodes
2011 Prime Suspect Paul RobieEpisode: "The Great Wall of Silence"
2012–2013 Touch Avram Hadar10 episodes
2014 Growing Up Fisher UnknownEpisode: "Katie You Can Drive My Car"
2015 Code Black KennyEpisode: Black Tag
2015–2017 Criminal Minds Peter "Mr. Scratch" LewisEpisodes: "Mr. Scratch", "The Storm", "The Crimson King", "Mirror Image", "True North", "Wheels Up"
2016 Rizzoli & Isles Josh WalkerEpisode: "Ocean Frank"

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