Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, director, actor, musician, and singer. Fame came to him thanks to the worldwide popular animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad". McFarlane has won several Emmy Awards, Annie Awards, Webby Awards and many others. He is also an Oscar nominee for his participation in the song for the movie "The Odd One."
From school, Seth dreamed of a creative career. And he managed to realize his passion, becoming one of the most famous Hollywood animators. It was he who created the series "Family Guy", beloved all over the world. In addition, MacFarlane has voiced the characters in The Simpsons, Sing, Robot Chicken, Family Guy and many other TV series, films and cartoons.
MacFarlane also writes poetry and is an excellent performer of his own songs. In 2011, he released the music album Music Better Than Words, produced by Seth's friend Joel McNealy.
Childhood
The boy was born in the fall of 1973 in the United States. His family were representatives of the first settlers to settle in America. Father and mother worked in education, worked at a local college.
From an early age, Seth was interested in creativity. He was fond of drawing and devoted a lot of time to his hobby, redrawing the characters of famous cartoons. Already at the age of five, he told his parents that he would become an artist and would work at a cartoon studio. The family fully supported the young painter and helped him create the first books and comics, which were later published in the newspaper.
At the graduation party, the parents gave the boy a movie camera, which he did not part with for many years. After graduating from high school, Seth entered the College of Design and was going to start working at the studio of W. Disney. But after defending his thesis and creating the painting "The Life of Larry" the young man was invited to the studio Hanna-Barbera, where he began to create his famous TV series "Family Guy". It was at this studio that the creative biography of the future famous animator, director and actor began.
Studio work
When Seth entered Hanna-Barbera's cartoon studio, he began working as an artist, screenwriter and director for the 1995 series "The What a Cartoon Show". In addition, he was involved in the creation of the series: "The Cow and the Cockerel", "I Am an Ermine", "Dexter's Laboratory", the show "Johnny Bravo". Seth also began to collaborate with the Disney studio, where he took part in the projects: "Cubs of the Jungle" and "Ace Ventura".
In 1996, McFarlane was introduced to one of the Fox studio executives, who was very interested in collaborating with the young artist. Seth received funding and six months later the first season of the famous cartoon "Family Guy" was released.
MacFarlane's next large-scale work was the American Dad series, which became very popular with viewers due to humor and political satire.
As an actor and director, Seth made his debut in the movie "The Odd Man." The film was a huge success with the audience and in the very first weekend collected a record box office. Three years later, the second part of the picture about Tedi the bear came out - "The third extra 2". MacFarlane played in several more films, and the main role went to him in the fantastic film "Orville", which appeared in 2017.
Personal life
Seth is in no hurry to tie the knot, despite the fact that he is already 45 years old. He can always be seen surrounded by the beautiful half of society, but he does not enter into a serious relationship.
The actor had an affair with Emilia Clarke, but for a very short time. Soon there were rumors about his passion for the actress Charlize Theron and many photos in the press, where Seth and Charlize spend time together. Whether the couple is really having an affair or is it just a good relationship is difficult to say.
