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Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor and podcaster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the Superman television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".[1]

Michael Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum at GalaxyCon in 2020
Born	Michael Owen Rosenbaum (1972-07-11) July 11, 1972 (age 50) Oceanside, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Rosenbaum is also known for portraying Martinex in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Parker in Urban Legend, Adam/Adina in Sorority Boys and Dutch Nilbog on Fox's Breaking In. He also has an extensive voiceover career in animation, such as his role of Wally West / The Flash in the DC Animated Universe series Justice League (2001–04) and its sequel Justice League Unlimited (2004–06). Between 2015 and 2016, he played the lead role in the TV Land comedy series Impastor.

He is also the lead singer of the band Sun Spin with his friend Rob Danson. The band's first album, Best Days was released on February 9, 2021.[2]

Early life

Rosenbaum was born in Oceanside, New York and raised in Newburgh, Indiana.[3] His mother, Julie (née Eckstein), is a writer who published the book "Journey of a Lifetime." His father, Mark Rosenbaum, used to work in pharmaceuticals.[4] He is one of six children with two brothers, Eric and Adam, and a sister, Laurie. After his parents' divorce, his mother remarried sports reporter Gordon Engelhardt, and his father remarried Alexis Pelegrino, with whom he had two daughters, Rosenbaum's half-sisters Ava and Lia. His uncle is pet behaviorist Warren Eckstein.[5] Rosenbaum is Jewish, and says he was "closer to religion" in New York than in Indiana.[6]

He graduated from Castle High School in Newburgh, Indiana and from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, with a degree in theatre arts. Immediately after, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.[7]

Career

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Once in New York, Vincent Letizia, an MTV Networks intern spotted his 8×10 black-and-white photo in a batch of other casting submissions for a pilot called "Talk Girl". The pilot was never green-lighted, but Rosenbaum stood out as a newly discovered talent. A new MTV pilot was conceived specifically for Rosenbaum with the working title of The Michael Rosenbaum Project. The project later became known as "The Temp" and covered Rosenbaum in a reality television setting as a temp, who would walk into a different job each day. The pilot featured Rosenbaum as a Cat filling in on Broadway's "Cats" musical, and as a zoo keeper filling in at the zoo, sweeping animal manure and the like. The pilot never took off with MTV executives.

In 2001, Rosenbaum received a Saturn Award for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville. Continuing in the superhero genre, he played Wally West (a.k.a. the Flash) in the DC Comics animated series Justice League, Static Shock, and Justice League Unlimited as well as portraying a younger version of Wally West as Kid Flash in Teen Titans. In the third season Justice League Unlimited episode "Great Brain Robbery", Rosenbaum reprised his role as Lex Luthor when his character was trapped in Clancy Brown's Lex Luthor's body. In February 2008, Rosenbaum confirmed that he would be leaving Smallville after the seventh season of the show. After many months of speculation and him first turning down the contract to return, it was announced on February 11, 2011 that Rosenbaum would return to Smallville for the two-hour series finale, which aired on May 13, 2011,[8] with Rosenbaum reprising his role as Lex Luthor.[9]

In 2012, Rosenbaum appeared in Hit and Run, a movie that he made with his friends Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell. Michael portrayed the character Gil, a jealous ex-boyfriend from Annie's (Bell's character) past.[10]

Rosenbaum has a few notable vocal impressions in his repertoire, including Christopher Walken, Keanu Reeves, Rodney Dangerfield, Dudley Moore, John Malkovich, Harry Carey, and Kevin Spacey. The makers of the DCAU have used these impressions in their work, having Rosenbaum do his Walken voice for Ghoul in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and his Spacey voice for Deadshot; Spacey coincidentally portrayed Lex Luthor in the film Superman Returns, and Walken played Max Shreck in Batman Returns. He filmed the original SyFy comedy series Saved By Zeroes; yet was never picked up.[11][12] He recurred in Fox's original sitcom Breaking In; the show was cancelled initially after the first season but got a second chance, and Rosenbaum was promoted to series regular. Yet the series was cancelled again after a few episodes of the second season.[13][14]

In 2014, Rosenbaum made his feature-film directorial and writing debut with the comedy Back in the Day, where he stars as an actor who returns to his hometown in Indiana for a class reunion. The movie was filmed in Newburgh and Evansville, Indiana.[15][16]

Prior to the production of Back in the Day, Rosenbaum planned to direct another comedy film, titled Sorry is For Sissies. The film had a cast including Jon Heder, Colin Hanks and Jennifer Love Hewitt; however, at least half of the film's budget was lost, and the film was scrapped.[17]

On June 17, 2014, Rosenbaum was cast as the lead in the TV Land original sitcom Impastor. The plot has been summarised as a "low-life who hides out in a small town by conning the residents into thinking he is their newly hired gay pastor".[18]

In 2017, Rosenbaum served as narrator for the reality television show Hunted which pitted investigators against teams of ordinary citizens trying to evade capture as fugitives.[19]

In 2018, Rosenbaum debuted his casual celebrity interview-based podcast called Inside of You. His first guest was his Smallville co-star Tom Welling.[20] The two have launched a podcast Talkville, where they re-watch every episode of Smallville in July 2022.[21][22]

On August 5, 2022, Rosenbaum confirmed that he will reprise the role of Martinex in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May 2023.[23]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Devil & the Angel	The Devil
1997	The Day I Ran Into All My Ex Boyfriends	Bart
1997	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	George Tucker
1998	1999	Brick
1998	Urban Legend	Parker Riley
2000	Eyeball Eddie	Skelley	Short film
2000	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker	Ghoul	Voice
2001	Sweet November	Brandon / Brandy
2001	Rave Macbeth	Marcus
2002	Poolhall Junkies	Danny
2002	Sorority Boys	Adam / Adina
2003	Special	Fred Molinski
2003	Bringing Down the House	Todd Gendler
2005	Cursed	Kyle	Uncredited
2005	Racing Stripes	Ruffshodd	Voice
2007	Cutlass	Background Extra #2	Short film
2007	Kickin' It Old Skool	Kip
2007	Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight	Tanis Half-Elven	Voice
2008	Shear Love[24]		Short film
2010	Father of Invention	Eddie
2010	Catch .44	Brandon
2010	Ghild	Brauly Gullivan	Short film
2012	Justice League: Doom	Barry Allen / The Flash	Voice
2012	Hit and Run	Gil Rathbinn
2014	Back in the Day	Jim Owens	Also director, writer, & executive producer
2015	Justice League: Throne of Atlantis	Drift Leader	Voice[25]
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Martinex T'Naga
2018	The Neighbor	Scott
2020	DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger	Seth	Voice
2023	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	Martinex	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	The Tom Show	Jonathan Summers	Episode: "The Talk"
1999	Rocket Power	Sports Announcer	Voice Episode: "Super McVariel 900/Loss of Squid"
1999–2000	Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane	Jack Cooper	Main cast 24 episodes
1999–2001	Batman Beyond	Ollie, Carter Wilson / Terminal, Wendell, Carl, Agent West, Smirk	Voice 6 Episodes
2000	The Wild Thornberrys	Tom Ravenhearst	Voice Episode: "A Shaky Foundation"
2001	Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue	Olympius	Voice Episode: "Olympius Descends"
2000–2004	Static Shock	Trapper / Speedtrap (3 episodes) The Flash (2 episodes)	Voice 5 episodes
2001–2008, 2011	Smallville	Lex Luthor	154 episodes Main cast (Seasons 1–7) Special guest (Season 10) Directed the 125th episode "Freak" Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2002) SFX Award for Best Newcomer (2003) Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006) Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series Drama (2003) Nominated – Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Sidekick (2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009)
2006	Ultraman Tiga	Evil Tiga	Voice
2001–2002	The Zeta Project	Agent West	Voice 8 episodes
2001–2006	Justice League and Justice League Unlimited	Wally West / The Flash, Floyd Lawton / Deadshot, Arkkis Chummuck, Andre, Colonel Josef, Bald Pedestrian, Franzee, Ghoul, Vigilante, Blitzkrieg, Doctor Polaris	Voice 56 episodes
2003	Player$	Himself	Episode: "Charlie's Angels"
2004–2005	Jackie Chan Adventures	Drago	Voice 11 episodes
2005–2006	Teen Titans	Kid Flash	Voice 2 episodes
2005	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Colin	Episode: "Gun Fever"
2008	PG Porn	Charlie Brown	2 episodes
2009	Untitled Family Pilot[26]	Derek	Failed Pilot
	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Deadman	Voice Episode: "Dawn of the Dead Man!"
2011–2012	Breaking In	Dutch Nilbog	8 episodes
2015–2016	Impastor[27]	Buddy Dobbs	Lead role
2017	Hunted	Narrator	7 episodes
2017	Typical Rick	Mark	Episode "Mr. Gaber"
2019	Robot Chicken	Westley (voice)	Episode: "Musya Shakhtyorov in: Honeyboogers"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Gladius	Valens	Voice
2006	Yakuza	Akira Nishikiyama
2008	Dark Sector	Hayden Tenno
2012	Lollipop Chainsaw	Nick Carlyle
2013	Infinite Crisis	The Flash[28][29]
2015	Batman: Arkham Knight	Johnny Charisma[30]
2018	Lego DC Super-Villains	The Flash[31]

References

External links

• Michael Rosenbaum at IMDb

Preceded by John Shea for Lois and Clark	Actors portraying Lex Luthor 2001–2008 for Smallville	Succeeded by Kevin Spacey for Superman Returns

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[es] Michael Rosenbaum

Michael Owen Rosenbaum (n. 11 de julio de 1972; Oceanside, Nueva York) es un actor estadounidense, conocido por interpretar a Lex Luthor en Smallville (The CW). Rosenbaum también ha actuado en películas y ha doblado a personajes animados, como por ejemplo a Wally West en la serie de animación de DC Comics La Liga de la Justicia.

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Ма́йкл О́уэн Розенба́ум (англ. Michael Rosenbaum; род. 11 июля 1972) — американский актёр, известный, в основном, по роли Лекса Лютора в сериале «Тайны Смолвиля».

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