Ben Savage

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birthname = Bennett Joseph Savage
birthdate = birth date and age|1980|09|13
location = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
yearsactive = 1987 ─ present
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occupation = Actor
awards = Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Television Friends
2000 "Boy Meets World"

Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage (born on September 13, 1980) is an American film and TV actor and child star of the 1990s.

Savage is best known for his role as the lead character Cory Matthews on the TV sitcom "Boy Meets World" for seven seasons, which catapulted him into stardom, and for being the younger brother of Fred Savage, who starred in the TV-series "The Wonder Years".

Biography

Early life

Career

Savage made his film debut at the age of 9 in his brother Fred's hit "Little Monsters" (1989) and appeared in the feature films "Big Girls Don't Cry. ..They Get Even" (1992), as "Sam", the brainy little brother and playing a 10-year old in "Clifford" (1994), the latter starring Martin Short. Savage's stage debut was in "The Laughter Epidemic" at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Savage established himself more prominently on TV. His first major speaking role on network television was playing the recurring role of Matthew, son of the Judd Hirsch character, on the comedy series "Dear John" (1988). Then he was one of a family of orphans who con Robert Mitchum into being their guardian in "A Family For Joe" (NBC, 1990).

Savage is best known for his role as lead character Cory Matthews on the TV sitcom "Boy Meets World" from 1993 to 2000. Cory Matthews, a '90s-model Dennis the Menace constantly at daggers drawn with authority figures — especially his sixth grade teacher, Mr. Feeny (William Daniels). At age 13, Savage once said: "I'd never talk to my teachers like Cory talks to Mr. Feeny. I mean, they're the ones who give you the grades." When "Boy Meets World (BMW)" premiered in the fall of 1993, advertising agencies predicted that the clever Cory Matthews character would succeed. Indeed, the sitcom became a staple of the ABC's "T.G.I.F." Friday schedule.

Savage's brother Fred appeared alongside him in one episode of "BMW", guest starring where he played a lecherous college professor going after Cory's girlfriend. In the following season, December 17, 1999, Fred directed his brother and the cast of "BMW" in the episode, "Family Trees," as Shawn (Rider Strong) discovers that the woman who raised him is not his real mother.

Ben has also worked in several TV-movies, including "She Woke Up" (ABC, 1992), with Lindsay Wagner, and "McDonald's Family Theatre Presents: Aliens for Breakfast" (ABC, 1995), as a young teen whose breakfast cereal figure comes alive.

Savage received critical recognition for his portrayal of "Coty Wyckoff", an angel-faced boy with the soul of a killer, in the ABC Event Series, "Wild Palms" (1993).

In May, 1998, Savage again received critical acclaim, this time for playing "Roddy Stern" in Tony Award-winner Israel Horovitz's rarely seen play "Unexpected Tenderness" at the Marilyn Monroe Theater.

He made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the Disney Channel original series "Phil of the Future".

In 2002, Savage starred in the PG-13 film "Swimming Upstream" playing the best friend, who was not the most mature person in the world but whose support makes up for that, to his terminally ill friend.

In 2005, he made a guest appearance on the show "Still Standing" as Seth Cosella, the boss of Bill Miller, played by Mark Addy.

Personal life

*Savage interned for U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) in 2003 as a requirement for completing his studies at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, where he graduated in 2004, with a degree in Political Science and as a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. [ [http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/article.cfm?section=Arts&articleID=620&month=4&day=8&year=2005 The Gazette :: What ever happened to... Ben Savage? ] ]

*Savage regularly volunteers for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. He also remains good friends with his former "Boy Meets World" co-stars Matthew Lawrence, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong. He is a huge Bruce Springsteen fan to the point where he and his father spent a summer traveling the country following Springsteen on a U.S. tour.

Filmography

Awards & Nominations

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
*2000: Won, "Favorite Television Friends" - "Boy Meets World" (shared w/Rider Strong)

Young Artist Awards
*1990: Nominated, "Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture" - "Little Monsters"
*1994: Nominated, "Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Television Series" - "Boy Meets World"
*1997: Nominated, "Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Television Series" - "Boy Meets World"
*1998: Nominated, "Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Television Series" - "Boy Meets World"

YoungStar Awards
*1998: Nominated, "Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy TV Series" - "Boy Meets World"

References

External links

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