Will Friedle
| Will Friedle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William Alan Friedle August 11, 1976 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, voice actor, comedian |
| Years active | 1988–present |
William Alan "Will" Friedle (born August 11, 1976) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is best known for his comedic roles, most notably the underachieving older brother Eric Matthews on the long-running TV sitcom Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. More recently, he has voiced a number of animated characters such as Terry McGinnis/Batman, the title character of Batman Beyond, and Ron Stoppable of Kim Possible. He voices Deadpool in Ultimate Spider-Man and Star-Lord in the animated version of Guardians of the Galaxy, replacing Chris Cox. He also performed the voices of Doyle in The Secret Saturdays, Lion-O in the rebooted ThunderCats series, and Blue Beetle on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.[1] One of his most recent roles has been the speaking voice of Bumblebee in the final episode of Transformers: Prime and the movie Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising and in the sequel series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, as well as in Transformers: Rescue Bots.
In December 2014, it was announced that Friedle would reprise his Boy Meets World role of Eric Matthews on the continuation series Girl Meets World.[2][3][4]
Early life
Friedle was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Patricia Joan (née Leary) and Gary Allen Friedle, both lawyers.[5][6][7] After committing himself to becoming an actor, Friedle continually commuted from Avon, Connecticut to New York City for auditions. He attended Avon High School in 1994.
Friedle attended Occidental College. In the July 4, 2006 issue of People, Friedle mentioned he had thought about attending culinary school.
Career
After co-hosting Nickelodeon's Don't Just Sit There for three seasons (1988–1991), Friedle was cast as Cory Matthews' likeable but underachieving elder brother Eric on the long-running TV sitcom Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000.
In 2004, he co-starred with Chris Owen in the independent film National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (originally titled Lady Killers). He also appeared in a supporting role in the 2005 ABC Family movie Everything You Want. Friedle was cast as Mike in the WB sitcom Off Centre, but could not accept the role because of a previous commitment to the UPN series The Random Years. The role ended up going to Eddie Kaye Thomas.[8]
Friedle voiced Seifer Almasy in the English version of the video game Kingdom Hearts II, Gideon Wyeth in the English version of the video game Advent Rising, and Jaster Rogue in the English version of the video game Rogue Galaxy.
Personal life
In 1997, Friedle dated American actress Jennifer Love Hewitt,[9] and co-starred with her in the romantic teen comedy Trojan War. Hewitt made a guest appearance as Jennifer Love "Feffy" Fefferman on Boy Meets World episode "And Then There Was Shawn".
Friedle is best friends with actor Jason Marsden and was the best man at Marsden's wedding in October 2004. The two have also worked together in numerous productions: Boy Meets World, Trojan War, Static Shock, Kim Possible, Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, ThunderCats and Mad.
Filmography
| Film | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | ||
| 1997 | Trojan War | Brad Kimble | |||
| 2000 | Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Terry McGinnis/Batman | Voice role Direct-to-DVD release | ||
| 2003 | National Lampoon's Gold Diggers | Calvin Menhoffer | |||
| 2004 | The Greatest Short Film Ever!!! | Mark | Short film | ||
| Howl's Moving Castle | Additional voices | Voice role | |||
| 2005 | Everything You Want | Calvin Dillwaller | |||
| 2008 | Batman: Gotham Knight | Anton, Cultist, Youth #1 | Voice role Direct-to-DVD release | ||
| 2015 | Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts | Nightwing/Dick Grayson | Voice role Direct-to-DVD release[10] | ||
| Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem | Nightwing/Dick Grayson | Voice role Direct-to-DVD release[11] | |||
| 2016 | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout | Nightwing/Dick Grayson | Voice role Direct-to-DVD release[12] | ||
| Batman Unlimited: Mech vs. Mutants | Nightwing/Dick Grayson | Voice role Direct-to-DVD release | |||
| Television | |||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
| 1988 | Don't Just Sit There | Host | |||
| 1992 | Law & Order | Russ | Episode: "Trust" | ||
| 1993–2000 | Boy Meets World | Eric Matthews | Series regular (157 episodes) Young Artist Award (nominated) | ||
| 1994 | The Gift of Love | Luke | CBS television movie | ||
| Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Jimmy Armstrong | Episode: "The Tale of the Long Ago Locket" | |||
| 1996 | ABC Afterschool Special | Jason Gallagher | Episode: "Educating Mom" | ||
| 1998 | My Date with the President's Daughter | Duncan Fletcher | Disney Channel television movie | ||
| 1999 | Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane | Jeremy Pinter | Episode: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" | ||
| H-E Double Hockey Sticks | Griffelkin | ABC television movie | |||
| Odd Man Out | Phillip Evans | Episode: "Punch Line" | |||
| 1999–2001 | Batman Beyond | Terry McGinnis/Batman, additional voices | Voice role 48 episodes | ||
| 2001 | The Zeta Project | Terry McGinnis/Batman | Voice role Episode: "Shadows" | ||
| 3rd Rock from the Sun | Stan | Episode: "Dick Soup for the Soul" | |||
| Go Fish | Pete Troutner | Series regular | |||
| 2002 | All That | Himself | Season 7, episode 6 | ||
| 2002 | The Random Years | Alex | Series regular | ||
| 2002–2007 | Kim Possible | Ron Stoppable | Series regular Voice role 87 episodes | ||
| 2003 | Jack's House | Jack | Unsold television pilot | ||
| Regular Joe | Larry | Episode: "Time and Punishment" | |||
| Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time | Ron Stoppable | Voice role Disney Channel television movie | |||
| 2003–2005 | Lilo & Stitch: The Series | Mackey Macaw Manager, Ron Stoppable | Voice roles Episode: "Phantasmo" Episode: "Rufus" | ||
| 2004 | Static Shock | Terry McGinnis/Batman, Pilot | Voice role Episode: "Future Shock" | ||
| Teen Titans | Fang, Frozen Promgoer | Voice role Episode: "Date with Destiny" | |||
| Less Than Perfect | Caleb | Episode: "Claude Want to Know" | |||
| 2004–2005 | Justice League Unlimited | Kyle Rayner/Green Lantern, Terry McGinnis/Batman II, Redcoat #3 | Voice roles Episode: "The Return" Episode: "The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time Warped" Episode: "Epilogue" | ||
| 2005 | Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama | Ron Stoppable | Voice role Disney Channel television movie | ||
| Everything You Want | Calvin Dillwaller | ABC Family television movie | |||
| The Batman | Gearhead | Voice role Episode: "RPM" Credited as Will Friedel | |||
| 2006 | American Dragon: Jake Long | Cousin Greggy | Voice role Episode: "Feeding Frenzy" | ||
| 2008 | Ben 10: Alien Force | Ken Tennyson | Voice role Episode: "Max Out" | ||
| The Secret Saturdays | Doyle Blackwell | Voice role | |||
| 2008 | TMNT: Back to the Sewer | Splinter | Voice role | ||
| 2009 | Turtles Forever | Miyamoto Usagi, additional voices | Voice role | ||
| 2008–2011 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle | Voice role | ||
| 2010–2011 | The Penguins of Madagascar | Randy the Sheep | Voice role | ||
| 2010 | Sym-Bionic Titan | Bryan, Jason, Student #1 | Voice role | ||
| 2011–2012 | Thundercats | Lion-O/Leo | Voice role | ||
| 2011 | MAD | Lion-LOL, Captain America, Owen Lars | Voice role | ||
| 2012–2013 | Winx Club | Nereus | Voice role | ||
| 2012 | Gravity Falls | Reginald | Voice role | ||
| 2012 | Green Lantern: The Animated Series | Ragnar | Voice role | ||
| 2013–2016 | Ultimate Spider-Man | Wade Wilson/Deadpool Web-Beard |
Voice role | ||
| Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters | Bumblebee | Voice role | |||
| 2013–present | Teen Titans Go! | Kid Flash | Writer (1 episode) Voice role | ||
| 2015–present | Girl Meets World | Eric Matthews | Recurring role | ||
| 2015-Present | Transformers: Robots in Disguise | Bumblebee, additional voices | Voice role | Writer (1 episode) | |
| 2015 | Avengers Assemble | Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Jeter Kan Toon | Voice role[13] Replaces Chris Cox as Star-Lord in season 2[14][15] | ||
| 2015 | Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. | Peter Quill/Star-Lord | Voice role Replaces Chris Cox in the episode "Planet Monster, Part 2"[16] | ||
| 2015 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Peter Quill/Star-Lord | Voice role | ||
| Video games | |||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
| 2002 | Disney's Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist | Ron Stoppable | |||
| 2003 | Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu | Additional voices | |||
| 2004 | Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault | Willy Gaines | |||
| 2005 | Jade Empire | Lu the Prodigy | |||
| Advent Rising | Gideon Wyeth | ||||
| Rogue Galaxy | Jaster Rogue | ||||
| Teen Titans | Fang | ||||
| Chicken Little | |||||
| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland | Hero/"Kensucky" | ||||
| Kingdom Hearts II | Seifer Almasy | ||||
| 2010 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Jamie Reyes/Blue Beetle | |||
| 2013 | Lego Marvel Super Heroes | Rick Jones, Archangel, Nova | |||
| Web series | |||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
| 2015-2016 | Critical Role | Himself | Roleplays as Dungeons & Dragons character Kashaw Vesh the Human Cleric Special guest on 5 episodes | ||
| Discography | |||||
| Year | Album | Song | Notes | ||
| 2003-2005 | Kim Possible | The Naked Mole Rap (as Ron Stoppable) | Featuring Nancy Wainwright (as Rufus) and The Cheetah Girls | ||
References
- ↑ Phegley, Kiel (28 January 2009). "The Bravest & Boldest: Will Friedle". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
- ↑ Andy Swift. "'Girl Meets World': Eric Returns With Mr. Feeny — Season 2 Spoilers - TVLine". TVLine. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Girl Meets Writers". Twitter. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Will Friedle on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Art-World Movie Shot In State To Be Shown Saturday In New Milford". tribunedigital-thecourant. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "The Hartford Courant article archive - Friedle-Leary". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "The Hartford Courant article archive - She Chose to Have Both". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ Friedle lands UPN sitcom Neil Wilkes, DigitalSpy, 4 March 2002
- ↑ "Will Friedle". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Gary Miereanu". Twitter. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ Gerding, Stephen (2 June 2015). "EXCLUSIVE TRAILER DEBUT: Joker Rules in "Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ↑ Siegel, Lucas (April 4, 2016). "EXCLUSIVE: WB Reveals Next LEGO DC Comics Movie with Announcement Trailer". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- ↑ "New Frontiers". Avengers Assemble. Season 2. Episode 25. September 13, 2015. Disney XD.
- ↑ "Guardians of the Galaxy 'Assemble' again on TV". USA TODAY. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Widow's Run". Avengers Assemble. Season 2. Episode 12. February 22, 2015. Disney XD.
- ↑ "Planet Monster, Part 2". Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Season 2. Episode 26. June 28, 2015. Disney XD.
External links
- Will Friedle at the Internet Movie Database
- Will Friedle on Twitter
- Will Friedle at Anime News Network's encyclopedia