Harvey Silver(1976-2012)
- Actor
- Writer
Harvey Silver was born a true Aries, on April 12, 1976 and on his
mother's birthday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the second
child of 4 children. His mother was too young to raise both him and his
sister alone, so she made a choice of putting Harvey in foster care at
the age of five. He spent most of his childhood in 'Society Hill
Philadelphia'. Harvey took acting classes throughout his teenage years
to stay away from the streets! He also thought this would be a good way
for him to express himself. Harvey became passionate about acting while
performing in student plays in high school. He was accepted into the
Philadelphia's prestigious "Society Hill Playhouse," which was part of
his High School Extra Credit Program. He had only been in the business
for a few months and already had his first Screen Test for a three-year
contract on the now defunct ABC Soap Opera titled "Loving." After
arriving in Los Angeles in 1995, Harvey started working immediately.
His first Equity stage experience was the lead role in a play titled
"American Medea" at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. with Tony award
winner, film actress and ABC's 'Lost' star - L. Scott Caldwell. Harvey
has starred in a few other Equity stage productions including the hit
play "Salt on Sugar Hill" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Harvey's first professional television debut was a Coca Cola commercial
directed by critically acclaimed film director - "John Singleton". In
1995, Harvey gave a breakthrough performance with a lead role in the
20th Century Fox movie titled "The Price of Love," playing opposite
Peter Facinelli and Laurel Holloman. The Fox Movie gave Harvey the
exposure to showcase the depth of his acting ability. "The Price of
Love" was a movie about the teen homelessness and teen prostitution
that goes on in Hollywood. Critically acclaimed feature film and TV
movie director David Burton Morris was the film's director. Harvey got
offered his own spin-off Docu-Film for 20th Century Fox, about runaway
teens titled "Runaways." Harvey's TV credits include guest-starring on
such shows as "New York Undercover", "The Watcher", "Beverly Hills
90210", "Beyond Belief", "Brooklyn South", "NYPD Blue", "First Monday"
and "The Shield". Harvey has starred in his own sit-com ironically
about foster-kids. The show was NBC's hit comedy titled "One World,"
which aired from 1998-2001. Harvey's feature film credits include, the
Justin Zackhams ("The Wedding" - Director & "Bucket List" - writer)
breakthrough hit cult comedy "Going Greek" w/Oliver Hudson, "Last
Resort w/ Scott Caan & "Steel" w/ Shaq just to name a few. Harvey has
set his mind on a goal to someday win a Tony award for a dramatic or
comedic role on "Broadway"!
