26 Facts About Fred Savage

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Frederick Aaron Savage was born on July 9,1976 and is an American actor and director.

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Fred Savage is known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years.

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Fred Savage has earned several awards and nominations, such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards.

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Fred Savage is known for playing the Grandson in The Princess Bride, and voiced the title protagonist in Oswald.

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Fred Savage returned to acting in the television series The Grinder, as well as the Netflix series Friends from College.

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Fred Savage was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Joanne and Lewis Fred Savage, who was an industrial real estate broker and consultant.

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Fred Savage grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, before moving to California.

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Fred Savage's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, Ukraine, Germany and Latvia.

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Fred Savage was educated at Brentwood School, a private co-educational day school in Brentwood, in the Westside area of Los Angeles County in California.

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Fred Savage graduated from Stanford University in 1999, with a bachelor's degree in English and as a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

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Fred Savage married his childhood friend Jennifer Lynn Stone on August 7,2004.

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In 1988, Fred Savage appeared as Kevin Arnold on The Wonder Years, the role for which he is best known, and for which he received two Golden Globe nominations and two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

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Fred Savage remained on the show until it ended in 1993.

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Fred Savage had a series of guest and supporting roles in the late 1990s and the 2000s such as on the show Boy Meets World and in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember as The Mole.

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Fred Savage has lent his voice to several animated projects, including Family Guy, Kim Possible, Justice League Unlimited, Oswald, and Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen.

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In July 2008, Fred Savage guest-starred in the web series The Rascal on Crackle.

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In 2015, Fred Savage returned to acting with the Fox series The Grinder.

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Producer Nick Stoller approached Fred Savage about playing the role of Stewart on The Grinder.

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Fred Savage was uninterested at first, but agreed to meet with the producers of the series because his children attended school with Stoller's children.

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In 1999, Fred Savage began his directing career in which he helmed episodes of over a dozen television series.

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Fred Savage's first directing credit was on the short-lived NBC sitcom Working which starred Fred Savage.

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Fred Savage learned by shadowing Amy Sherman-Palladino, Todd Holland, and James Burrows.

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Additionally, Fred Savage has directed for prime-time network sitcoms including Modern Family and 2 Broke Girls.

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Besides directing several episodes, Fred Savage co-produced the Disney Channel Original Series Phil of the Future.

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Fred Savage has served as a producer for several episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Friends with Benefits, Party Down, Phil of the Future, The Crazy Ones, and Happy Endings.

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On May 6,2022, Fred Savage was fired as executive producer and director of The Wonder Years reboot after an investigation into alleged inappropriate conduct.