Eli Marienthal

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Eli Marienthal
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Marienthal at the LA Animation Festival in March 2012
Born
Eli David Marienthal

(1986-03-06) March 6, 1986 (age 38)
OccupationActor
Years active
  • 1996–2004
  • 2017–present
Children1 [2]

Eli David Marienthal [1] (born March 6, 1986 [1] ) is an American actor. He won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for his vocal performance as Hogarth Hughes in the animated film The Iron Giant (1999).

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Family and personal life

Marienthal has two siblings, actors Harley Cross and Flora Cross. [3] Marienthal is Jewish. [4] [ better source needed ]

Marienthal graduated from the private East Bay French-American School in Berkeley. [1] [5] As of February 2019, he has a doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. [6]

Career

Marienthal's career started in Bay Area stage theater work, performing in Missing Persons, The Cryptogram, Hecuba, A Midsummer Night's Dream , Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy, and The Life of Galileo.[ citation needed ]

He provided the voice of Hogarth Hughes in the 1999 animated film The Iron Giant , which won him an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production.[ citation needed ]

Marienthal also voiced the character Robin (Tim Drake) in the Static Shock episode "The Big Leagues", and reprised his role in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman. [7] He played the title role of Tucker Pierce in the Tucker television series, as well as Steve Stifler's brother in American Pie franchise and Sam in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen .

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
1996 Unlikely Angel Matthew BartilsonTelevision film
1997 First Love, Last Rites Adrian
1998 Slums of Beverly Hills Richard "Rickey" Abromowitz
Jack Frost Spencer
1999 American Pie Matt Stifler
The Iron Giant Hogarth Hughes (voice) [8] Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2001 American Pie 2 Matt Stifler
2002 The Country Bears Dexter "Dex" Barrington
2003 Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman Tim Drake / Robin (voice) [8]
2004 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Sam "Samuel"

Television

YearTelevision seriesRoleNotes
2000 Touched by an Angel JohnEpisode: "A House Divided"
Batman Beyond Dak (voice)Episode: "Where's Terry?" [8]
Tucker Tucker PierceMain role; 10 episodes
2001–2002 The Zeta Project Young Zee (voice)2 episodes [8]
2002 Static Shock Tim Drake / Robin (voice)Episode: "The Big Leagues" [8]
2003 Fillmore! Derek Minna, Computerized Stingray (voice)Episode: "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes" [8]
2017–2019The North PoleFinnMain role; 12 episodes

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