![]() ![]() ![]() He then attended Union College, graduating in 2003 with a double major in psychology and anthropology. Schwartz attended Edgemont Junior–Senior High School where he played basketball and sang in the chorus he graduated in 1999. When he was eleven years old, his family moved to Edgemont, New York, in adjacent Westchester County. In an interview with Kevin Pollak, he stated, "When I told people I was from the Bronx, it was like 'Oh, do you have bullet wounds?' And I'm like 'No, it's just me and, like, Jewish people.'" His father was a social worker before going into real estate and his mother was a music teacher at P.S. His parents, both Bronx natives, raised Schwartz in Riverdale, a neighborhood in the Northwestern part of the Bronx. Early life īenjamin Joseph Schwartz was born on Septem in The Bronx, New York City, to a Jewish family. He also voiced a character in the Netflix interactive special We Lost Our Human as Pud. On television, he has starred in the Netflix comedy series Space Force (2020–2022) and the Apple TV+ crime comedy series The Afterparty in 2022. His film career also includes roles in Peep World Everybody's Fine The Other Guys The Walk This Is Where I Leave You Standing Up, Falling Down and Flora & Ulysses. Schwartz voices the titular character in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). He has guest starred as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation and Clyde Oberholt on the Showtime series House of Lies voiced Randy Cunningham in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Dewey Duck in DuckTales, and Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and appeared many times in the CollegeHumor web series Jake and Amir. He’s really a weakling! He doesn’t have what it takes to be one.’ It’s like a kid who’s trying to be those people, but can’t quite be like them (laughs).Benjamin Joseph Schwartz (born September 15, 1981) is an American actor and comedian. “I thought it’d be really funny if you played the bad guy and people would say, ‘He wishes he was as bad as these guys, but he’s not. He answered, “Chris McKay said, ‘You should watch the following movie: ‘Donnie Brasco,’ ‘Mean Streets’ and ‘Scarface.’ Teddy’s not quite those people, but he has those posters on his wall-like, that’s what or who he aspires to be. What were Ben’s references in creating inept gangster Teddy? I also played a lot of Castlevania as a kid, so I’m also familiar with the vampires in it.” So, I’ve probably seen Leslie Nielsen’s Dracula more than anybody else’s. But the one that I’ve seen the most is Mel Brooks’ ‘Dracula: Dead and Loving It,’ because I love comedy so much. ![]() When asked what vampire movies he likes, Ben said, “I love a lot of vampire movies. “The second he sees that possibility, he thought, ‘Oh my God, I can team up with this guy and take over the world!’ All the things that Renfield thinks is bad about being a familiar are also all the things that Teddy thinks is good about it.” That’s why Teddy cannot wait to be Dracula’s familiar,” Ben said. “A good familiar is someone who has to have the same mindset as his crazy boss in order to pull it off. Speaking of character riff-offs, Ben explained why his character Teddy thought he’d be a better familiar for Dracula than Renfield. Schwartz (left) facing off with Nicholas Hoult ![]()
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