A year later, he made his final appearance as Finch in the “American Pie” film series, starring in “American Reunion.” In 2006, he began starring as Jeff Woodcock in 39 episodes of Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa’s “’Til Death”, until 2008, then in 2010 and ’11, he played David ‘Kappo’ Kaplan in 16 episodes of “How to Make It in America”. Kaye continued his Finch portrayal in “American Wedding” in 2003, and the following year he realized one of his most famous portrayals – Rosenberg in “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.”Ī year later, he snagged his longest running role to date, becoming the voice of Barry Robinson in “American Dad!”, which is still ongoing in mid-2022. In 2001 he appeared as Finch again in “American Pie 2”, meanwhile also cast in the significant part of Mike Platt, in 28 episodes of “Off Centre”, through 2002. Thomas entered the year 2000 with 13 on-screen and numerous theater appearances under his belt, landing the role of Russell in seven episodes of “Brutally Normal” right then, as well as the recurring role of Gary in the prodigy series “The X-Files”, in which he appeared again, and two other roles. That year he also played four other roles, one of which marked his second appearance in “Law & Order.” He landed his first film role in 1996, as Young Flaco in “Illtown”, aside from also showing up in an episode of “Law & Order”, then in 1997, he appeared alongside legendary Natalie Portman in a stage adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” After another three TV roles in 1998 and one more a year later, he landed his most significant role thus far – Paul Finch in the four-film installments of world-renowned “American Pie”, the first of which premiered in 1999. Thomas’ onscreen breakthrough came when he was 14, thanks to the role of Dave in an episode of the romantic TV series entitled “One Life to Live” in 1994, as well as Matt Dorney in “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” He played a role in Brooklyn Shakespeare Company’s “Richard III” before he was 10 years old, and debuted on Broadway in “Four Baboons Adoring The Sun” in John Guare’s Lincoln Center Production as an understudy at age 12 in 1992, which marks his career beginning. He matriculated from New York’s Professional Children’s School, a preparatory dramatic arts college, in 1998, at which point his acting career was already well underway, thus he never attended college.īy the time Eddie’s career officially started, he had already made an enviable number of appearances across various theaters.

Eddie grew up with a strong interest in acting, participating in school plays as early as age seven. The name he goes by today was adopted at the start of his acting career, leaving his birth name unknown. Kaye was raised apparently an only child in his birthplace, by Jewish parents, specifically in New Dorp neighborhood, right across from a train station.

Josh duhamel and eddie kaye thomas