Ethan Embry

Ethan Philian Randall, professionally known as Ethan Embry, was born on June 13, 1978 in Huntington Beach, California to Karen, who is a screenwriter and talent manager, and Charles Randall. He has two siblings; songwriter and musican Aaron, and photographer and actress Kessia.

Before he started acting in movies, Ethan appeared in more than one hundred television and radio commercials. Embry started acting at ten years old and made his film debut as youngester Doyle Standish in the American comedy drama "Dutch," which won him a Young Artist Award in 1992 for the role. He went on to do "All I Want for Christmas" in which he portrayed Ethan O'Fallon, who tries to reunite his divorced parents for the holidays. Ethan has appeared in "Evolver" as teenage whiz kid Kyle Baxter, "A Far Off Place" with Reese Witherspoon, in the coming-of-age film Empire Records and drama feature film "White Squall" that gave him the attention he deserved. Then came "That Thing You Do!" a film written and directed by Tom Hanks. Embry has also been in Vegas Vacation as the adventurous son of a couple who find themselves spending time in Las Vegas.

In "Sweet Home Alabama," he worked with Reese Witherspoon for the second time on film; playing her on-screen childhood friend and closet homosexual Bobby Ray. In 2003, he took on the regular role of Detective Frank Smith in Dick Wolf's 2003 remake of the classic series of the classic police drama series "Dragnet," for the ABC network, but continued to work in feature films such as the big budget box office bomb "Timeline," "Standing Still" with Amy Adams and "Heart of a Dragon," about Rick Hansen's visit to China. Ethan also appeared in the cult classic "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," and a guest-starred on the 2005 series "Numb3rs." Most recently, he has been cast in "Once Upon a Time" as Greg Mendell and in the Netflix original series, "Grace and Frankie."

Ethan was formerly married to Amelinda Smith. They have one son named Cogeian, whose unique name is "from cogency, cognition, cogent—all the words that start with "cog" that signify power, intelligence and knowledge". His second marriage was to fellow "Once Upon a Time" actress Sunny Mabrey from July 17, 2005 until their divorce in 2012.