Seth MacFarlane is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer, he is also a really wonderful voice actor. Seth Macfarlane is mainly known for his work in shows such as Family Guy, American Dad!, The Cleveland Show, and many other fantastic shows.
He started his animation career with the show Hanna-Barbera, he has worked with Cartoon Network and has also done freelancing with Walt Disney, working for shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and Jungle Club.
Family Guy is Seth MacFarlane’s best work, the show made him the youngest executive producer at the age of 24, and his hard work for Family Guy is immaculate, he has talked about his Family Guy days in an interview with The Newyork Times, he said that when he went to Fox Studios for the show Family Guy, they gave him a budget of $50,000 to work on a pilot, so that they can release a full series, although the budget was really less to work on an animated show, Seth MacFarlane spends his six months without sleep or life, and when he went to Fox Studio again this time with a pilot episode of Family Guy, they loved the show and decided to release it.
On January 31, 1999, Seth MacFarlane’s life changed as the Family Guy was a hit, and opened the door for many successful Seth MacFarlane projects like American Dad! And The Cleveland Show.
Let’s take a closer look at this animation genius’s life.
Seth MacFarlane Wife
Seth MacFarlane has been in relationships many times but does not have a wife yet, he describes his love life as one of the characters of his show Family Guy, Brian Gryphon, he says that he has dated but has not the right one yet.
Seth MacFarlane’s dating list is quite long, he has been connected with many actresses like Emilia Clarke, many fans were surprised to know that Emilia Clarke is known for her role in HBO’s Game Of Thrones and Seth MacFarlane was a thing way back in 2012-2013, they were spotted together at an Emmy party, but they eventually broke up because of their busy schedules, and has said many good things about each other, Emilia Clarke has said many times that Seth MacFarlane is a great guy.
He has been romantically linked to Nicole Sullivan, known for her comedy series on MadTV, she dated Seth from 1998 to 2000, then he dated Christa Campbell an actress known for her roles in 2001 Maniacs, Mozart and the Whale, etc., and Jessica Barth who has acted as Tami Lynn McCafferty in the movie Ted and its sequel in 2006, Camille Guaty popular for Gotta Kick It Up as Daisy, and Kat Foster is known for her role as Steph Woodcock on Til’ Death they both dated Seth MacFarlane in the upcoming year, he was also rumored to be dating Amanda Bynes an actress known for her role in She’s the man, and Eliza Dushku famous for her role in Buffy the vampire slayer as Faith has dated Seth in 2008, Katie Sah has worked with Seth MacFarlane on the show Family Guy and Kaylee DeFer popular for her role in Hillary Gold in The war at home, were his significant others in 2009, he was linked with Trisha Cummings in 2010 to 2012, who is known for her role in Welcome to My World , and Emilia Clarke famous for her role in Game of Thrones as Daeneyrs, she dated Seth in 2012-2013, he was connected to Halston Sage in 2017 who is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Grace on the Nickelodeon television series How to Rock, and she has worked with Seth MacFarlane on the show The Orville.
He is also rumored to have dated Alexis Knapp, who is famous for her role as Stacie Konrad in the film Pitch Perfect, and he is dating Anne Winter, who is known for her role as Chloe Rice in the series 13 reasons why there are many rumours that they both are engaged, reportedly.
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Seth MacFarlane Early Life
Seth was born in Kent, Connecticut, USA, her mother is Ann Perry and his Father is Ronald Milton MacFarlane, his younger sister Rachel is also a voice artist, and MacFarlane has roots in England too.
Seth MacFarlane finished his high school in 1991 in Kent, Connecticut, USA, he got his degree in fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
At Rhode Island School of Design, MacFarlane created a series of independent films, meeting future Family Guy cast member Mike Henry during his time at Rhode Island School of Design, he performed stand-up comedy. In his senior year, he made a film, which became the inspiration for Family Guy. A professor submitted his film to the animation studios where he was later hired as an animator.
Seth MacFarlane Career
As mentioned above he is popular for his shows like Family Guy and American Dad etc.
He is an animator as well as a voice actor, and voices almost all the main characters in the show Family Guy, the show has been running since 1999, and its popularity is still not down.
American Dad! Is Seth MacFarlane’s second highest-running show, and has been in production since 2005, The Cleveland show is a spin-off of the character Cleveland Brown from Family Guy, the show was released in 2009, due to the strong ratings of The Cleveland Show, Fox did not cancel the back episodes and the series which was supposed to have 22 episodes ended with 44 episodes, The Cleveland Show got ended in 2013 with a total of four seasons, the fun fact it is the only show by Seth MacFarlane where he does not voice any main characters of the show.
Seth MacFarlane has also worked on movies, his first movie was Ted, a live-action movie about a guy John Bennett and his talking teddy bear. Internationally Ted is currently the highest-grossing R-rated movie, and it was a box office hit, and it received good critical reviews. There is another movie Seth MacFarlane has worked on called A Million Ways To Die In The West.
He is great in music too, Seth MacFarlane has signed a deal with Universal Republic Records, and has released an album Music Is Better Than Words, and Seth has gotten nominated at the 54th Grammy Awards in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category.
He has been featured on Calabria Foti’s 2013 single Lets’ Fall in love, in 2014 Seth MacFarlane released Holiday for swing an album on Christmas with collaborations with singers like Norah Jones and Sara Braillies, It mostly received positive reviews, Seth’s album No one ever tells you in 2015 was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal category, Seth MacFarlane was honored by Barbara Sinatra at the 28th annual Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational in 2016, and has recorded the song Pure Imagination as a duet with Barbara Steriesend for an album of her called Encore: Movie Partners Sings Broadway.
Seth released In Full Swings in 2017, featuring songs by Joel McNeely for the second time; three singles were released from it. The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards in two categories Best Traditional Pop Vocal and Best Arrangement Instrumental and Vocals for Seth’s album Once in a while in 2019.
Seth MacFarlane Award And Nominations
Seth Macfarlane has been nominated for Prime-time Emmy Awards twenty-three times for his show Family Guy, and has won five times in the year 2000, 2002, 2016, 2017, and 2019, he was nominated for Grammy Awards five times, for the music on Family Guy. In Full Swings, Seth was nominated for an Academy Award too for his music in his film Ted.
He has a number of accolades from other organizations as well, such as Annie Awards for Best Voice Acting, MTV award for the best on-screen duo, Empire Award for Best Comedy, and Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation.
In 2019, Seth MacFarlane got a Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Television Hall of Fame in 2020.
Seth MacFarlane Social Media
Seth MacFarlane is on social media, he is on Instagram as @macfarlaneseth, and he has 883k followers with 464 posts, Seth MacFarlane is on Twitter as @SethMacFarlane, and he has 13.7 million followers on Twitter.
Seth MacFarlane Net Worth
Seth MacFarlane has a net worth of a whopping $300 million, in fact, he has four longest-running shows on a major network like Fox Television, the four shows are Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, and The Orville, he also sold plenty of merchandise and DVDs of his shows, his movies Ted grossed $500 million, Ted 2 grossed, $200 million and his third movie A million ways to die earned $80 million, which was double the movie’s budget.
Seth MacFarlane has a home in Beverly Hills which he sold for $13.5 million, and he lives in a bungalow in Malibu, California, that is reportedly worth $15.7 million.
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