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Ethan Embry

American actor (born 1978)

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image	Ethan Embry 2013.jpg
caption	Embry in 2013
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birth_place	Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years_active	1990–present
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children	1

Ethan Embry (born June 13, 1978), credited early in his career as Ethan Randall, is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, with starring roles in the films Dutch (1991), All I Want for Christmas (1991), and A Far Off Place (1993). He gained mainstream recognition for his supporting role in Empire Records (1995) and starring roles in Evolver (1995) and That Thing You Do! (1996).

In the late 1990s, Embry had the lead role in the teen comedy film Can't Hardly Wait (1998), starred in Vegas Vacation (1997) and Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998), and a main role as Sebastian on the CBS sitcom Work with Me (1999). In the 2000s, Embry starred in the films They (2002) and Vacancy (2007) and had main roles as Derek and Adam Barnes on the Fox television series FreakyLinks (2000–2001), Frank Smith on the ABC television series L.A. Dragnet (2003), and Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood (2006–2008).

In the 2010s and 2020s, Embry starred in the films Cheap Thrills (2013), Blindspotting (2018), and Last Seen Alive (2022), and had a main role as Coyote Bergstein on the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022).

Early life

Embry was born in Huntington Beach, California, and was raised in Los Angeles. His father was a dental technician. Embry was homeschooled by his mother as a result of a teacher allegedly recommending Ritalin after his first day of kindergarten.

Embry participated in gymnastics from a young age and enjoyed the sport.

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), Empire Records (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), * Vegas Vacation* (1997), and the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998).

In 2002, Embry appeared as Bobby Ray Bailey opposite Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama. The two actors had previously worked together a decade prior in the 1993 live action Disney film A Far Off Place.

Embry had a major role in Showtime's Brotherhood, which premiered in 2006 and in 2013 he had a recurring role as Greg Mendell on the television series Once Upon a Time. In 2015, Embry had a guest role as Carter on The Walking Dead. That same year, Embry began a recurring role as Coyote Bergstein on Grace and Frankie on Netflix.

In 2018, Embry took a small role as astronaut Pete Conrad in the Damien Chazelle film First Man.

Embry has appeared in a recurring role as the real Pete Murphy in Sneaky Pete, an Amazon Video original series. He was also on Grey's Anatomy in 2012 where he played Prosthetist Dr. David Moore.

Personal life

Embry married actress Amelinda Smith on November 14, 1998; they divorced in 2002. They have a son together.

Embry married actress Sunny Mabrey on July 17, 2005. In 2012, Mabrey filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. The two maintained some contact through Mabrey's weekly contact with his son, which escalated to the couple dating again by 2013, Embry and Mabrey have homes in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

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

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

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		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/Nick Papagiorgio
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
Armed Response	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		Short film (Cinematographer)
2018	Blindspotting	Officer Molina
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: You Worry Me	Husband	Short film
First Man	Pete Conrad
2022	Last Seen Alive	Knuckles
2025	Alma and the Wolf	Ren Accord
Christy	John Salters
Safe House	Sorello
2026	The Gymnast	Rich
		Post-production
TBA			Post-production

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	2 episodes, 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, 2 episodes
1999	The Wild Thornberrys	Ned Fervel	title=Ethan Embry (visual voices guide)	url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Ethan-Embry/	access-date=June 12, 2024	publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} 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.
Rocket Power	TV Announcer	Voice, episode: "Rocket Girls"
1999–2000	Batman Beyond	Lee, Terrapin	Voice, 2 episodes
1999–2000	Work with Me	Sebastian	Series regular (10 episodes)
2000	Get Real	Wade Kostick	Episode: "Saved"
2000–2001	FreakyLinks	Derek Barnes / Adam Barnes	Series regular (13 episodes)
2001	The Zeta Project	Bodhi	Voice, episode: "His Maker's Name"
Silicon Follies	unknown role	Television film
2002	The Twilight Zone	Zack Walker	Episode: "Time Lapse"
2003	L.A. Dragnet	Detective Frank Smith	Series regular (12 episodes)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series	Max Dillon / Electro	Voice, 3 episodes
2004	Celeste in the City	Kyle Halley	Television film
Life on Liberty Street	Rick Spencer	Television film
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	3 episodes
CSI: Miami	Randy North	2 episodes
Thunderballs	unknown role	Television film
2012	Imaginary Friend	Brad	Television film
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 film
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)
2015–2022	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	2 episodes
2021	Creepshow	Hank	Episode: "Mums"
2023	Gotham Knights	Arthur Brown	3 episodes

References

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Sneider, Jeff. (2015-04-08). "'90s Flashback: 'Empire Records' Ethan Embry on Rex Manning Day and Playing Lily Tomlin's Son".
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]].
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]].
Bricker, Tierney. (12 May 2013). "Once Upon a Time Finale Recap: Hello, Peter Pan!". [[E! News]].
Ross, Dalton. (October 11, 2015). "'The Walking Dead' season premiere: Ethan Embry on Carter's big moment". [[Entertainment Weekly]].
Olson, J.. (September 30, 2018). "Armstrong Pic First Man Is Subdued, Sensational".
Shattuck, Kathryn. (March 9, 2018). "Giovanni Ribisi Has Been Conned. So Have You.". [[The New York Times]].
McRady, Rachel. (2015-02-15). "Ethan Embry, Sunny Mabrey Engaged Again After Divorce: See What They Had to Say About Their Reconciliation!".
Coughlan, Maggie. (July 25, 2012). "Ethan Embry and Sunny Mabrey to Divorce". [[People (magazine).
(24 July 2012). "'Can't Hardly Wait' Star Getting Divorced".
(October 13, 2015). "Actor Ethan Embry Has Confirmed Reports He And Ex-wife Sunny Mabrey Have Remarried". [[World Entertainment News Network]].
Staff writers. (November 29, 2006). "Ethan Embry Held Up & Fires Back?". [[TMZ]].
Staff writers. (March 19, 2008). "Ethan Embry to Marred Model -- Deal!". [[TMZ]].
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Campione, Katie. (2023-01-25). "Ethan Embry & Sunny Mabrey To Recur On The CW’s ‘Gotham Knights’".

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