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'' (1999).

Family and personal life

Marienthal was born in

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, to Penny and Joseph. His older brother Harley Cross and younger sister Flora Cross are also actors. Marienthal is

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. Marienthal graduated from the private East Bay French-American School in Berkeley. As of February 2019, he has a

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at the

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Career

Marienthal's career started in Bay Area stage theater work, performing in ''Missing Persons'', ''The Cryptogram'', ''Hecuba'', ''

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'', ''Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy'', and ''The Life of Galileo''. He provided the voice of Hogarth Hughes in the 1999 animated film ''

'', which won him an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production. Marienthal also voiced the character Robin (Tim Drake) in the '' Static Shock'' episode "The Big Leagues", and reprised his role in '' Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman.'' He played the title role of Tucker Pierce in the '' Tucker'' television series, as well as Steve Stifler's brother in '' American Pie'' franchise and Sam in '' Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marienthal, Eli 1986 births American male child actors American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors American male voice actors Annie Award winners Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) alumni Brown University alumni Jewish American male actors Living people Male actors from Santa Monica, California 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors 21st-century American Jews