FRED SAVAGE
Name: Fredrick Aaron Savage
Born: 9 July 1976 Glencoe, Illinois, U.S.
Fredrick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe
Award-nominated American actor and television and film director.
Savage was born in Glencoe, Illinois, the son of Joanne F., a consultant, and
Lewis M. Savage, an industrial real estate broker. His brother is actor Ben
Savage and his sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were
Jewish immigrants from Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland, respectively, and
Savage was raised in Reform Judaism. In 1999, he graduated from Stanford
University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, with a
degree in English. On August 7, 2004, Savage married Jennifer Lynn Stone. They
have a son named Oliver Philip Savage, who was born on August 5, 2006. Savage
and his wife are expecting their second child in May 2008.
Savage's first recorded performance was in the 1987 video Dinosaurs!. He then
appeared onscreen in The Boy Who Could Fly and several television shows,
including The Twilight Zone and Crime Story before gaining national attention as
the grandson in the 1987 film The Princess Bride opposite Peter Falk.
In 1988, Savage appeared as Kevin Arnold on The Wonder Years, the role for which
he is best known. His tenure in the show resulted in two Golden Globe
Nominations and two Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy
Series; at the age of 13 he would be the youngest actor ever to receive these
honors. He would remain on the show until it went off the air in 1993. During
this period, he appeared in several movies, most notably Little Monsters, Vice
Versa, and The Wizard. After The Wonder Years, Savage primarily did guest and
supporting roles, including an appearance on the show Seinfeld as himself, the
show Boy Meets World (which starred his brother Ben) and in the film Austin
Powers in Goldmember as 'Number Three'.
He has also lent his voice to several animated projects, including Kim Possible,
Justice League Unlimited, Oswald, and Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't
Happen. His two lead roles since The Wonder Years were on the short-lived
sitcoms Working and Crumbs.
Savage has also appeared as a rapist on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and
as a womanizing professor on Boy Meets World.
Beginning with episodes of Boy Meets World in 1999, Savage began a directing
career in which he helmed episodes of over a dozen youth-oriented series. His
credits include Drake & Josh and Ned's Declassified for Nickelodeon, as well as
That's So Raven, Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place for the Disney
Channel.
Besides directing several episodes, Savage co-produced the Disney Channel
Original Series Phil of the Future. In 2007, he was nominated for a Directors
Guild award for the Phil episode "Not-So-Great-Great Grandpa".
Savage made his theatrical film directorial debut on 2007's Daddy Day Camp.
Savage also will direct several episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Name: Fredrick Aaron Savage
Born: 9 July 1976 Glencoe, Illinois, U.S.
Fredrick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe
Award-nominated American actor and television and film director.
Savage was born in Glencoe, Illinois, the son of Joanne F., a consultant, and
Lewis M. Savage, an industrial real estate broker. His brother is actor Ben
Savage and his sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were
Jewish immigrants from Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland, respectively, and
Savage was raised in Reform Judaism. In 1999, he graduated from Stanford
University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, with a
degree in English. On August 7, 2004, Savage married Jennifer Lynn Stone. They
have a son named Oliver Philip Savage, who was born on August 5, 2006. Savage
and his wife are expecting their second child in May 2008.
Savage's first recorded performance was in the 1987 video Dinosaurs!. He then
appeared onscreen in The Boy Who Could Fly and several television shows,
including The Twilight Zone and Crime Story before gaining national attention as
the grandson in the 1987 film The Princess Bride opposite Peter Falk.
In 1988, Savage appeared as Kevin Arnold on The Wonder Years, the role for which
he is best known. His tenure in the show resulted in two Golden Globe
Nominations and two Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy
Series; at the age of 13 he would be the youngest actor ever to receive these
honors. He would remain on the show until it went off the air in 1993. During
this period, he appeared in several movies, most notably Little Monsters, Vice
Versa, and The Wizard. After The Wonder Years, Savage primarily did guest and
supporting roles, including an appearance on the show Seinfeld as himself, the
show Boy Meets World (which starred his brother Ben) and in the film Austin
Powers in Goldmember as 'Number Three'.
He has also lent his voice to several animated projects, including Kim Possible,
Justice League Unlimited, Oswald, and Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't
Happen. His two lead roles since The Wonder Years were on the short-lived
sitcoms Working and Crumbs.
Savage has also appeared as a rapist on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and
as a womanizing professor on Boy Meets World.
Beginning with episodes of Boy Meets World in 1999, Savage began a directing
career in which he helmed episodes of over a dozen youth-oriented series. His
credits include Drake & Josh and Ned's Declassified for Nickelodeon, as well as
That's So Raven, Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place for the Disney
Channel.
Besides directing several episodes, Savage co-produced the Disney Channel
Original Series Phil of the Future. In 2007, he was nominated for a Directors
Guild award for the Phil episode "Not-So-Great-Great Grandpa".
Savage made his theatrical film directorial debut on 2007's Daddy Day Camp.
Savage also will direct several episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.