Ethan Embry

**Ethan Philan Randall**, known by his stage name **Ethan Embry**, is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Russell "Rusty" Griswold in Vegas Vacation, Agent Toby Grant in Eagle Eye, Preston Meyers in Can't Hardly Wait, Greg Mendell in Once Upon a Time and as Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood. Most recently, he played Coyote in Grace and Frankie on Netflix.

## Early life

Embry was born in Huntington Park, California, the son of Karen, a screenwriter/talent manager, and H. Charles Randall, a dental technician. He has an elder brother, Aaron, a music producer and musician, and a younger sister, Kessia, a photographer.

## Career

Embry started acting at the age of 12. After making his debut in *Defending Your Life* (1991), he starred in several films, including *Dutch* (1991), *All I Want for Christmas* (1991), *A Far Off Place* (1993) co-starring Reese Witherspoon, *That Thing You Do!* (1996), *National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation* (1997), *Empire Records* (1995), and the teen comedy *Can't Hardly Wait* (1998).

In 2002, Embry appeared as Bobby Ray opposite Reese Witherspoon in *Sweet Home Alabama*. He had a major role in Showtime's *Brotherhood*, which premiered in 2006.

In 2013 Embry had a recurring role as Greg Mendell on the television series *Once Upon a Time*. In 2015 Embry had a guest role as Carter on *The Walking Dead*. That same year, Embry began a recurring role as Coyote Bergstein on *Grace and Frankie* on Netflix.

Embry has appeared in a recurring role as the real Pete Murphy in *Sneaky Pete* an Amazon Video original series.

## Personal life

Embry married actress Amelinda Smith on November 14, 1998. They have one child together and divorced in 2002.

Embry married actress Sunny Mabrey on July 17, 2005. In 2012, Mabrey filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. In 2013 Embry and Mabrey began dating again, and remarried in June 2015.

In November 2006, Embry and Mabrey were robbed at gunpoint in their driveway.

In 2008, Embry settled a lawsuit with former Deal or No Deal model Angelina Roudeza, who had sued him after being scarred over her torso when thrown from his motorcycle in 2005.

Embry and Mabrey have homes in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

## Trivia

* Won 6th place in a California gymnastics tournament at the age of 10 (one can see Ethan doing back flips in Can't Hardly Wait (1998), right after the scene where someone calls Mike Dexter a fag).
* (November 14, 1998) Married actress Amelinda Smith (auditioned to play "Stacy" in the CBS sitcom Work with Me (1999), but Emily Rutherfurd landed the role - Ethan read Amelinda's script, liked it, auditioned and snagged the role of "Sebastian").
* (December 10, 1999) Amelinda Smith gave birth to their son, Cogeian coming from the Latin word cogeo meaning "to think over" while Ethan Embry's 1993 A Far Off Place (1993) was still airing.
* Is the owner of many pets (in 1998, he had five cats and eight dogs).
* Produced an unreleased movie titled "Taken" with his White Squall (1996) co-star and friend, Jeremy Sisto, and a friend of Embry's was to direct it
* Can't Hardly Wait (1998) opened the day before Ethan's 20th birthday.
* At the age of 22, Ethan had already appeared in many TV and radio commercials, movies (including doing his own stunts in one), produced and directed a short film (at the age of 13), co-produced another film, married, and become a father.
* Middle brother of Aaron Embry and Kessia Embry.
* Writes with his left hand, but plays his guitar with his right hand.
* Is interested in photography.
* Last name was Randall, but he changed it to Embry because it was his grandfather's last name.
* Did his own stunts in White Squall (1996).
* Kessia Embry is his younger sister.
* In between the films That Thing You Do! (1996) and Vegas Vacation (1997), he only had two days off.
* Plays in a band, Southern Comfort Colonic, which is a mix of punk and hardcore speed metal.
* Appeared with Ed O'Neill in Dutch (1991) at the age of 13 and later played his partner in Dragnet (2003).
* The song "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits plays in the background in scenes featuring him in two different movies, Empire Records (1995) and Can't Hardly Wait (1998).
* He is of English, and smaller amounts of Irish and German, descent.
* Revealed he has been battling opiate addiction for the last six years including prescription painkillers and black tar heroin. [May 2017]
* Settled a lawsuit with model Angelina Roudeza who had sued him after being thrown from his motorcycle three years earlier. [2008]
* He has said that he gave his unnamed character in That Thing You Do! (1996) the first name "Tobias". It was something for him to hold onto as an actor.
* Divorced from his wife of seven years Sunny Mabrey due to "irreconcilable differences" in July 2012. The two reconciled and started dating in 2013 and remarried in June 2015.
* He began his acting career at age 13 in the romantic comedy, Defending Your Life.
* With a competitive gymnast background, he was often able to perform his own stunts on shows.
* He was married to Amelinda Smith from 1998 to 2002. He married actress, Sunny Mabrey in 2005 and they divorced in 2012. They remarried in 2015.
* He had a recurring role as Greg Mendell in the ABC series, Once Upon a Time, starring Ginnifer Goodwin.