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Adam Savage
Born Adam Whitney Savage [1]
July 15, 1967 (1967-07-15) (age 42)
New York City, New York, US
Occupation Designer/fabricator, magician, actor, educator
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Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters.[1]

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Early life and education

Born in New York City, Savage was raised in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.[2] His father, W. Lee Savage, was a painter, filmmaker, and animator known for his work on Sesame Street. His mother is a psychotherapist. His sister Kate Savage is also an artist.

Adam Savage began acting as a child, and has had five years of acting school.[1] His early credits include voicing animated characters that his father produced for Sesame Street, Mr. Whipple's stock boy "Jimmy" in a Charmin commercial, a helper in the special effects of Star Wars, and a drowning young man saved by a lifeguard in the 1985 Billy Joel music video "You're Only Human (Second Wind)."[3] He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for acting for 6 months before dropping out.[4]

Career

Savage has worked as an animator, graphic designer, carpenter, projectionist, film developer, television presenter, set designer, toy designer, and gallery owner. He worked as a model maker on the films Galaxy Quest, Bicentennial Man, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, The Matrix Reloaded and Space Cowboys, among others.

Savage played the role of a helpful engineer in the film Ever Since the World Ended[5] and the role of an army surplus store owner who sells a man a rocket engine for his pickup truck in The Darwin Awards, which also featured MythBusters co-star Jamie Hyneman.[6] He made a cameo appearance along with Jamie Hyneman on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on the May 1, 2008 episode "The Theory of Everything." In the "making of" material for The Matrix Revolutions, he appears in his role as a special effects artist and discusses some of the miniature effects used and the difficulties involved.

He previously taught advanced model making in the department of Industrial Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.[1]

Savage has become a regular presenter at magician James Randi's annual skeptics' conference, The Amaz!ng Meeting since first appearing in January 2006.[7] He also appeared in the UK, giving a talk at the first Amazing Meeting London from 3–4 October 2009, hosted at the Mermaid Conference Centre, Blackfriars.[8]

MythBusters

Savage's demeanour on MythBusters is animated and energetic, providing a foil to Jamie Hyneman's more reserved straight man persona. [9]

In an interview Savage gave at The Amaz!ng Meeting 5, he expressed an interest in proving natural selection over creationism on MythBusters.

“ My goal this year is to prove natural selection on the show. It's gonna take a while, it's gonna be very hard to make it fascinating on film in the context of our narrative structure, but I figure screw it. The sky's the limit. Let's do natural selection. I'm sick of fifty percent of this country thinking creationism is reasonable. It's appalling. And I have the unique ability, maybe, to sell this idea to Discovery, and they'll, they might allow me to do it, and I'm gonna try as hard as I can.[10] ”

Savage has since stated that such an episode is unlikely because MythBusters has a policy against trying to disprove supernatural phenomena.[11]

Personal life

Savage and his wife Julia were married in 2002. He has twin sons from a previous relationship.[12] He wears a hearing aid on his left ear due to a congenital condition.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Adam Savage. Interview with Steve Novella, et al.. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. 2008-08-20. (Interview [Audio/.MP3]). Retrieved on 2008-11-18.
  2. ^ (.PDF) Bio-Adam Savage 2008. http://vision.symantec.com/upload/adam_savage_bio.pdf. Retrieved 2008-06-21. 
  3. ^ "Adam Savage, Co-Host". The Discovery Channel. http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/meet/adam-savage.html. Retrieved 2008-09-20. 
  4. ^ http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/MythBuster_Adam_Savages_Colossal_Failures
  5. ^ "Ever Since the World Ended (2001)". The Internet Movie Database. 2008. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283337. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  6. ^ "The Darwin Awards". The Internet Movie Database. 2008. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428446. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  7. ^ "The Amaz!ng Meeting 6". James Randi Educational Foundation. 2008. http://www.randi.org/joom/component/option,com_registrationpro/Itemid,33/func,details/did,1. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  8. ^ "Amazing Meeting London (2009)". Speakers at Amazing Meeting London. 2009. http://www.tamlondon.org/speakers/. Retrieved 2009-03-28. 
  9. ^ Strauss, Gary (2008-01-15). "'MythBusters' is the stuff of legends, tall tales". USA Today: pp. 1. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2008-01-15-mythbusters_N.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-14. 
  10. ^ Adam Savage. Interview with "Swoopy". Skepticality (0:12:15). 2007-02-13. (Interview [Audio/.MP3]). Retrieved on 2009-04-08.
  11. ^ Adam Savage. Interview with "Swoopy". Skepticality (0:30:00). 2008-07-01. (Interview [Audio/.MP3]). Retrieved on 2009-04-08.
  12. ^ Purdy, Kevin (2009-05-30). "MythBusters' Adam Savage Talks Tech, Obsessions, and Science". Lifehacker. http://lifehacker.com/5190354/mythbusters-adam-savage-talks-tech-obsessions-and-science. Retrieved 4 July 2009. 
  13. ^ Confirmed on his twitter account

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