Eli Marienthal

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).

Eli Marienthal
Marienthal at the LA Animation Festival in March 2012
Born	Eli David Marienthal (1986-03-06) March 6, 1986 (age 39) Santa Monica, California, U.S.[1]
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–2019
Children	1[2]

Family and personal life

Marienthal was born in Santa Monica, California, 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