Ethan Embry

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Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry 2013.jpg
Embry in 2013
Born
Ethan Philan Randall

(1978-06-13) June 13, 1978 (age 43)
Huntington Park, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1991–present
Spouse(s)
  • Amelinda Smith
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    (m. 1998; div. 2002)​
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    (m. 2005; div. 2012)​
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    (m. 2015)​
Children1

Ethan Philan Randall (born June 13, 1978), known by his stage name Ethan Embry, is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Pete Murphy in Sneaky Pete, Russell "Rusty" Griswold in Vegas Vacation, Mark in Empire Records, The Bass Player in That Thing You Do!, Agent Toby Grant in Eagle Eye, Preston Meyers in Can't Hardly Wait, Greg Mendell in Once Upon a Time and as Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood. More recently, he has played Coyote in Grace and Frankie on Netflix and guest starred as Carter in an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead.

Early life[]

Embry was born in Huntington Park, California, the son of Karen, a screenwriter/talent manager, and H. Charles Randall, a dental technician. He has an elder brother, Aaron, a music producer and musician, and a younger sister, Kessia, a photographer.[1]

Career[]

Embry (originally credited as Ethan Randall) started acting at the age of 12. After making his debut in Defending Your Life (1991), he starred in several films, including Dutch (1991), All I Want for Christmas (1991), A Far Off Place (1993), That Thing You Do! (1996), National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997), Empire Records (1995),[2] and the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998).[3]

In 2002, Embry appeared as Bobby Ray opposite Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama. He had a major role in Showtime's Brotherhood, which premiered in 2006.

In 2013 Embry had a recurring role as Greg Mendell on the television series Once Upon a Time.[4] In 2015 Embry had a guest role as Carter on The Walking Dead.[5] That same year, Embry began a recurring role as Coyote Bergstein on Grace and Frankie on Netflix.

Embry has appeared in a recurring role as the real Pete Murphy in Sneaky Pete an Amazon Video original series.[6]

Personal life[]

Embry married actress Amelinda Smith on November 14, 1998. They have one child together and divorced in 2002.

Embry married actress Sunny Mabrey on July 17, 2005.[7] In 2012, Mabrey filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[8] In 2013 Embry and Mabrey began dating again, and remarried in June 2015.[9]

In November 2006, Embry and Mabrey were robbed at gunpoint in their driveway.[10]

In 2008, Embry settled a lawsuit with former Deal or No Deal model Angelina Roudeza, who had sued him after being scarred over her torso when thrown from his motorcycle in 2005.[11]

Embry and Mabrey have homes in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
1991 Defending Your Life Steve credited as Ethan Randall
Dutch Doyle Standish credited as Ethan Randall
All I Want for Christmas Ethan O'Fallon credited as Ethan Randall
1992 A Dog and His Boy N/A Short film (Producer/Assistant Director)
1993 A Far Off Place Harry Winslow credited as Ethan Randall
1994 Season of Change Bobby Bascomb credited as Ethan Randall
1995 Evolver Kyle Baxter credited as Ethan Randall
Empire Records Mark credited as Ethan Randall
1996 White Squall Tracy Lapchick
That Thing You Do! The Bass Player
1997 Vegas Vacation Rusty Griswold
1998 Montana Jimmy
How to Make the Cruelest Month Dillger
The Prophecy II Young Coroner Direct-to-Video
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 Squirrel
Can't Hardly Wait Preston Meyers
Disturbing Behavior Allen Clark
2000 The Independent Bert
2001 Rennie's Landing Trevor Logan also known as "Stealing Time"
Ball in the House Bobby
Male Order Actor #2 Short film
Who Is A.B.? unknown role
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Bobby Ray
They Sam Burnside
2003 Manfast Johnny Shore
Timeline Josh Stern
2004 Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Billy Carver
2005 Pizza Matt Firenze
Standing Still Donovan
2006 A Slice of 'Pizza' Matt Firenze Short film
Escape Hollywood Agent #1 Short film
Kidney Thieves Guy Short film
2007 Vacancy Mechanic
Order Up Man Short film
2008 Player 5150 Joey
Heart of a Dragon Lee
Eagle Eye Agent Toby Grant
2010 You're So Vain Boyfriend Short film
The Kane Files: Life of Trial Jace Olsen
2011 The Reunion Leo Carey
2012 Dorothy and the Witches of Oz Frick
Ordinary Man Jason Watts
2013 Cheap Thrills Vince
The House Across the Street Tom
Kevin
2014 The Guest Higgings
Late Phases Will
2015 Bereave Tommy
Echoes of War Seamus Riley
Covergence Daniel
White Cops and Unarmed Black Civilians Playset! unknown role Short film
The Devil's Candy Jesse Hellman
2016 Fashionista Eric
Those Eyes Son Short film
2017 The Feminist N/A Short film (Cinematographer)
2018 Blindspotting Officer Molina
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: You Worry Me Husband Short film
First Man Pete Conrad

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Drug Wars: The Camarena Story unknown role Miniseries (3 episodes)
1991 Bad Attitudes Cosmo Consingsby credited as Ethan Randall
1993–1994 Harts of the West Randy recurring role (2 episodes)
— "Dead Man's Leap" (1993)
— "Home Alone" (1994)
credited as Ethan Randall
1994 Murder, She Wrote Jimmy Taylor Episode: "The Trouble with Seth"
1995 Mike Seresino Episode: "School for Murder"
1998 Hercules Melampus (voice role) recurring role (2 episodes)
— "Hercules and the Comedy of Arrows"
— "Hercules and the Big Lie"
1999 The Wild Thornberrys Ned Fervel (voice role) Episode: "Chimp Off the Old Block"
Rocket Power TV Announcer (voice role) Episode: "Rocket Girls/Father's Day Off"
Batman Beyond Lee (voice role) Episode: "Joyride"
1999–2000 Work with Me Sebastian series regular (10 episodes)
2000 Get Real Wade Kostick Episode: "Saved"
Batman Beyond Terrapin (voice role) Episode: "April Moon"
2000–2001 FreakyLinks Derek Barnes / Adam Barnes series regular (13 episodes)
2001 The Zeta Project Bodhi (voice role) Episode: "His Maker's Name"
Silicon Follies unknown role Television Movie
2002 The Twilight Zone Zack Walker Episode: "Time Lapse"
2003 Dragnet Detective Frank Smith series regular (12 episodes)
Spider-Man Max Dillon / Electro (voice role) recurring role (3 episodes)
— "The Party"
— "Head Over Heels"
—"When Sparks Fly"
2004 Celeste in the City Kyle Halley Television Movie
Life on Liberty Street Rick Spencer Television Movie
2005 Numb3rs Blake Cosnell Episode: "Noisy Edge"
Masters of Horror Bruce Episode: "Incident on and Off a Mountain Road"
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Art Geddons Episode: "Watch"
2006–2008 Brotherhood Declan 'Decko' Griggs series regular (20 episodes)
2009 Fear Itself Chance Miller Episode: "Chance"
2010 House M.D. Mickey Episode: "The Down Low"
Biography Himself (Interviewee) Episode: "Ed O'Neill"
2011 Fairly Legal Spencer Reed recurring role (3 episodes)
— "Pilot"
— "Priceless"
— "Bo Me Once"
The Witches of Oz Frick Miniseries (2 episodes)
CSI: Miami Randy North 2 episodes
— "Mayday"
— "Countermeasures"
Thunderballs unknown role Television Movie
2012 Imaginary Friend Brad Television Movie
Drop Dead Diva Mark Baker Episode: "Jane's Getting Married"
Dark Wall Man Episode: "6:14"
Grey's Anatomy Dr. David Moore Episode: "I Saw Her Standing There"
The Frontier D.J. Jackson Television Movie
2013 Once Upon a Time Greg Mendell recurring role (Season 2–3; 10 episodes)
2014 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Jefferson Nalley Episode: "Keep Calm and Carry-On"
Hawaii Five-0 Shawn Hutten Episode: "Pale 'la"
2015 The Walking Dead Carter Episode: "First Time Again"
2015–2019 Sneaky Pete Pete Murphy / Real Pete recurring role (11 episodes)
2015–present Grace and Frankie Coyote Bergstein series regular (53 episodes)
2017 A Bunch of Dicks Mick Miniseries
Idiotsitter unknown role Episode: "Girls Gone Wild"
2020 The Twilight Zone Harry Pine Episode: "The Who of You"
2021 Stargirl Johnny Thunder Episode: "Summer School: Chapter Three"

References[]

  1. ^ Ethan Embry profile, filmreference.com; accessed August 25, 2014.
  2. ^ Sneider, Jeff (8 April 2015). "'90s Flashback: 'Empire Records' Ethan Embry on Rex Manning Day and Playing Lily Tomlin's Son in New Netflix Series". TheWrap. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  3. ^ Guerrasio, Jason (16 September 2015). "Ethan Embry never actually liked the hit movie that made him a star in the 1990s until now". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  4. ^ Bricker, Tierney (12 May 2013). "Once Upon a Time Finale Recap: Hello, Peter Pan!". E! News. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  5. ^ Ross, Dalton (October 11, 2015). "'The Walking Dead' season premiere: Ethan Embry on Carter's big moment". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  6. ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (March 9, 2018). "Giovanni Ribisi Has Been Conned. So Have You". The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  7. ^ Coughlan, Maggie (July 25, 2012). "Ethan Embry and Sunny Mabrey to Divorce". People. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  8. ^ "'Can't Hardly Wait' Star Getting Divorced". TMZ. 24 July 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  9. ^ Staff writers (October 13, 2015). "Actor Ethan Embry Has Confirmed Reports He And Ex-wife Sunny Mabrey Have Remarried". World Entertainment News Network. Contactmusic.com. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  10. ^ Staff writers (November 29, 2006). "Ethan Embry Held Up & Fires Back?". TMZ. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  11. ^ Staff writers (March 19, 2008). "Ethan Embry to Marred Model -- Deal!". TMZ. Retrieved May 29, 2014.

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