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Eli David Marienthal (born March 6, 1986) is an American former actor. He won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for his vocal performance as Hogarth Hughes in the animated film The Iron Giant (1999).

Family and personal life

Marienthal was born in Santa Monica, California, to Penny Marienthal and Joseph Cross. His older brother Harley and younger sister Flora are also actors. Marienthal is Jewish of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.

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

Career

Marienthal's career started in Bay Area stage theater work, performing in Missing Persons, The Cryptogram, Hecuba, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy, and The Life of Galileo.

He provided the voice of Hogarth Hughes in the 1999 animated film The Iron Giant, 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.