- Born
- Birth nameAdam Whitney Savage
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Adam Savage started his varied career as a child actor. His father worked on Sesame Street as a Muppeteer and he learned very early on about 'behind the scene' work on a television show. He appeared in some episodes of Sesame Street. Later on, as a teenager, he starred in the Billy Joel video for "Second Wind" and a Charmin toilet paper commercial with Mr. Whipple as Jimmy the stock boy.
Adam has worked as an interior designer, a set designer for the Fool's Fury playhouse in San Francisco, and an artist. His artwork has been displayed in San Francisco, New York and Charleston, West Virginia. He also worked in toy prototyping, working in research and development for Zoob toys, and designing several displays and a large "Zoob Dude" model for them. Adam has worked on many TV commercials for Pizza Hut, Burger King and Coca-Cola, among others. He designed his own robot for Battlebots, "Claymore".
However, Adam is best known for his work in Sci-Fi movies and of course, MythBusters (2003). He was employed by George Lucas' special effects shop, Industrial Light and Magic, working with Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara. He has worked on Space Cowboys (2000), Galaxy Quest (1999), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and Bicentennial Man (1999), among others. In 2002, Adam and Jamie Hyneman, long time collaborators on various projects, including the BattleBots (2000) robot Blendo, got together to film 3 pilot episodes for Mythbusters. The rest is history. Adam plays around with heavy machinery, indulges in building elaborate rigs, and gets to blow stuff up - always putting his body on the line for the show. He has donated every body fluid imaginable for scientific testing in the course of the show, and has taken many hits for the team. He provides much of the 'comic relief' to co-host Hyneman's 'straight-man' persona.
Adam is the father of twin sons!
- IMDb mini biography by: ladydeakin
- SpousesJulia Ward(September 11, 2004 - present)?(? - 2003) (divorced, 2 children)
- Parents
- Black "Buddy Holly" style glasses
- Good Bad and Ugly Hat made by Knudsen Hat Co
- Freckles and goatee
- Black leather jacket.
- His main obsessions in life are Legos, Star Wars, and juggling.
- Was born in New York City, but was raised in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
- Appeared as a teenage grocery clerk in one of Charmin's long-running "Mr. Whipple" television ads in the early 1980s.
- Has twin sons from a previous relationship.
- On Mythbusters, he participated in an experiment to find out which alternative cure is best to counteract seasickness (He and fellow Mythbuster Grant Imahara are susceptible to motion sickness).
- I reject your reality and substitute my own.
- I wouldn't say Jamie [Hyneman] is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
- My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
- My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
- That's the show. It's like 4 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
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