Fred Savage Biography
Fred Savage was born July 9, 1976. he began acting at age 4 in the movie
Dinosaur and then at age 9 with
Jay Underwood in
The Boy Who Could Fly. At the age of twelve, he was cast the lead role of the series
The Wonder Years. It became a good show, and on the pilot, he got his first kiss. He was later in the movie
Vice Versa with
Judge Reinhold and then in
Little Monsters, in which he worked with his younger brother
Ben Savage. Then, he went into the movie
The Wizard, with
Luke Edwards,
Christian Slater,
Jenny Lewis, and
Beau Bridges.
The Wonder Years was canceled while his younger brother
Ben Savage got the lead in the show
Boy Meets World. He stopped working for a couple of years until he was cast in the series
Working.
Trivia

Brother of actor
Ben Savage and
Kala Savage

He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."

Took a year off from Stanford University to appear in the TV show
Working.

At the age of twelve, he became the youngest person ever to be nominated for an Emmy as best leading performer.

Graduated from Stanford University in 1999 with a degree in English

Graduated from Brentwood School in LA in 1994

In 1999, his show
Working was canceled because its ratings plummeted after its first season.

Appeared in
Little Monsters with brother
Ben Savage.

Started acting at age 4 in movie
Dinosaur.

Directed an episode of
Boy Meets World, which is his brother Ben's show, in 1998.

Member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

He first met his wife, Jennifer Stone, where they were neighbors as children. Coincidently, he became famous for playing a character on
The Wonder Years who has a childhood romance with his neighbor.

After having not seen each other in over five years, Fred was reunited with his fellow
The Wonder Years cast member
Jason Hervey, who played his older brother Wayne when they did a guest spot on the animated series
Justice League Unlimited in the episode "Hawk & Dove." They played, of all things, bickering brothers who were also superheroes. It was originally intended that Jason would voice the older, more aggressive brother (Hank Hall/Hawk) while Fred voiced the younger, more docile brother (Don Hall/Dove) as they had done on
The Wonder Years, but during the voice-recording session, they switched roles unexpectedly, so Fred voiced the older brother while Jason voiced the younger brother.

His scene as a confused bellboy in
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was deleted.

Proposed to his wife with a 5-carat sapphire ring from Neil Lane Jewelers.

Wedding took place at L'Orangerie restaurant in Los Angeles, California.

In lieu of wedding gifts, they requested that donations be made to Children's Hospital Cancer Center of Los Angeles, in memory of their childhood friend.

Ranked #27 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars"

Fred and his wife, Jennifer, became the parents of a boy on August 5, 2006. The boy weighed in at 6 pounds, 13 ounces.
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