David Krumholtz

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Biography

After being cast as Judd Hirsch's son in the Broadway drama "Conversations with My Father," he began picking up film work in features like "Addams Family Values" (1993) and "The Santa Clause" (1994). Early efforts to be cast in a successful television series failed to pan out, as was the case with the ill-fated "Chicago Sons" (NBC, 1996-97). Thankfully, these disappointments were balanced by noteworthy turns in respected films like Ang Lee's …
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Job Title

Actor, Writer

Born

May 15, 1978

Career Milestones

2012

Co-starred with Michael Urie on comedy series "Partners" (CBS)

2012

Guest starred on HBO's "The Newsroom"

2011

Returned for "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas"

2011

Cast on NBC's short-lived 1960s drama "The Playboy Club" as club manager Billy Rosen

2011

Appeared opposite Jim Carrey in the comedy feature "Mr. Popper's Penguins"

2008

Reprised role of a stoner in the sequel "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"

2006

Reprised elf role for "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause"

2006

Played a high school baseball coach looking for his wife in the Ed Burns directed "Looking for Kitty"; Burns also co-starred

2005

Cast in Joss Whedon's science fiction film "Serenity" as Mr. Universe

2005

Starred as Charlie Eppes, a mathematical genius who works with his brother (Rob Morrow) in solving FBI cases on CBS drama "Numb3rs"

2004

Appeared in small key roles in the successful films "Ray" and "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle"

2002

Starred in FX TV-movie "Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie"

2002

Made debut as a leading man in the romantic comedy "You Stupid Man" (never released theatrically in the U.S.; released on DVD 2006)

2002

Reprised his elf role for "The Santa Clause 2"

2001

Cast alongside Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt in "The Mexican"

2001

Played the romantic and slightly obsessed Benny in Edward Burns' "Sidewalks of New York"

2000

Played a normal guy seeing a therapist who suddenly thinks the world is out to get him in "The Trouble with Normal" (ABC)

2000

Delivered memorable guest appearance on NBC's "ER" as a mentally unstable patient who stabs an intern to death

1999

Starred in the Fox sitcom pilot "Sick in the Head" alongside Kevin Corrigan and Andrea Martin

1999

Played Joseph Gordon-Levitt's enterprising ally in the above-par teen comedy "10 Things I Hate About You"

1999

Portrayed a young conflicted Jewish man in Barry Levinson's coming-of-age drama "Liberty Heights"

1998

Played Natasha Lyonne's slacker brother in "The Slums of Beverly Hills"

1998

Landed regular role on CBS' "The Closer," starring Tom Selleck

1997

Played opposite Tobey Maguire as an experienced rival for Katie Holmes' affection in Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm"

1997

Starred as Billy Kulchak, a college drop-out living with his two older brothers in an apartment overlooking Wrigley Field on NBC sitcom "Chicago Sons"

1994

Cast as the sarcastic head elf Bernard in "The Santa Clause"

1994

Cast as the younger son of a conservative talk show host (Henry Winkler) on short-lived Fox sitcom "Monty"

1993

Co-starred in "Addams Family Values" as the misfit friend and love interest of Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci)

1993

Made film debut as an obnoxious child star in "Life With Mikey" opposite Michael J. Fox

1992

Made acting debut at 13 playing Young Charlie, opposite Judd Hirsch in the Broadway play "Conversations with my Father"

Awards

2007

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Bobby