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ACTOR

Ethan Embry

Known for
Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Vegas Vacation (1997), Last Seen Alive (2022), The Devil's Candy (2015)

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Ethan Embry is an actor best known for Can't Hardly Wait, Vegas Vacation and Last Seen Alive.

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    At age 10, Ethan Embry placed sixth in a California gymnastics tournament. In Can't Hardly Wait (1998), he can be seen doing a backflip right after the scene in which someone calls Mike Dexter a faggot.

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    Ethan Embry plays in Southern Comfort Colonic, a band that blends punk and hardcore speed metal.

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    At age 13, Ethan Embry appeared on screen with Ed O'Neill in Dutch (1991), and he later played O'Neill's partner in Dragnet (2003).

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    Ethan Embry's surname was originally Randall, but he changed it to Embry because it was his grandfather's surname.

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    It emerged that Ethan Embry had spent the previous six years battling an opioid addiction that included prescription painkillers and black tar heroin.

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    Ethan Embry writes with his left hand but plays guitar with his right.

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    Between the films That Thing You Do! (1996) and Vegas Vacation (1997), Ethan Embry had only two days off.

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    Can't Hardly Wait (1998) opened one day before Ethan Embry's 20th birthday.

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    In July 2012, Ethan Embry divorced his wife of seven years, Sunny Mabrey, citing "irreconcilable differences." The two reconciled and began dating again in 2013, and remarried in June 2015.

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    By the time he was 22, Ethan Embry had appeared in numerous TV and radio commercials, worked in films (including doing his own stunts in one), produced and directed a short film (at age 13), co-produced another film, married and become a father.

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    Ethan Embry did his own stunts in White Squall (1996).

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    Ethan Embry is the owner of many pets; in 1998 he had five cats and eight dogs.

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    Ethan Embry said he gave his unnamed character in That Thing You Do! (1996) the first name "Tobias." As an actor, it was something he needed to hold on to.

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    Ethan Embry and his White Squall (1996) co-star and friend Jeremy Sisto produced an unreleased film called "Taken." A friend of Embry's was to direct it.

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    Ethan Embry was sued by model Angelina Roudeza, who filed suit against him three years after she was thrown from his motorcycle.

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    Kessia Embry is Ethan Embry's younger sister.

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    Ethan Embry is of English descent, with smaller amounts of Irish and German ancestry.

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  18. #018

    On November 14, 1998, Ethan Embry married actress Amelinda Smith. She auditioned for the role of Stacy on the CBS sitcom Work with Me (1999), but Emily Rutherfurd won the part. Ethan read Amelinda's script, liked it, auditioned and landed the role of Sebastian.

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    Ethan Embry is the middle sibling of Aaron Embry and Kessia Embry.

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  20. #020

    Ethan Embry is interested in photography.

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