Eli Marienthal

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

(1986-03-06) March 6, 1986 (age 38)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.[1]
OccupationActor
Years active
  • 1996–2004
Children1[2]

Eli David Marienthal[1] (born March 6, 1986[1]) is an American former 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).

Family and personal life

Marienthal was born on March 6, 1986,to Penny and Joseph. His older brother Harley Cross and younger sister Flora Cross are also actors.[3] Marienthal is Jewish.[4][5]

Marienthal graduated from the private East Bay French-American School in Berkeley.[1][6] As of February 2019, he has a doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley.[7]

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.[8] 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

Year Film Role Notes
1996 Unlikely Angel Matthew Bartilson Television 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)[9] 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)[9]
2004 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Sam "Samuel"

Television

Year Television series Role Notes
2000 Touched by an Angel John Episode: "A House Divided"
Batman Beyond Dak (voice) Episode: "Where's Terry?"[9]
Tucker Tucker Pierce Main role; 10 episodes
2001–2002 The Zeta Project Young Zee (voice) 2 episodes[9]
2002 Static Shock Tim Drake / Robin (voice) Episode: "The Big Leagues"[9]
2003 Fillmore! Derek Minna, Computerized Stingray (voice) Episode: "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes"[9]
2017–2019 The North Pole Finn Web series, 12 episodes

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jason Buchanan (2015). "Eli Marienthal - Biography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 30, 2015. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
  2. ^ "Instagram".
  3. ^ Ebert, Roger (August 27, 2015). "'BEE' GIRL CARRIES FILM". Roger Ebert, Flora Cross Interview. Archived from the original on September 12, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2005.
  4. ^ "Interfaith Celebrities: Santa's Jewish Family, and Margot at the Wedding's Near-Minyan". InterfaithFamily. 22 November 2007.
  5. ^ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyi8ZYMr9lA/?hl=en
  6. ^ Stack, Peter (August 1, 1999). "Testing Their Mettle / Warner Bros. and director Bill Bird challenge Disney with 'The Iron Giant'". sfgate.com. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
  7. ^ "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Heartthrob Eli Marienthal Isn't Acting But He's Still Cute!". PEOPLE.com.
  8. ^ "Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | TV Shows | Movie Trailers | Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Eli Marienthal (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved December 23, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.