Will Friedle Biography

William Alan "Will" Friedle (born August 11, 1976) is an American actor, voice actor, and writer. He is best known for his comedic roles, most notably the underachieving elder brother Eric Matthews on the long-running TV sitcom Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000. More recently, he has voiced a number of animated characters such as Terry McGinnis/Batman, the title character of Batman Beyond, and Ron Stoppable of Kim Possible. He voices Deadpool in Ultimate Spider-Man and Star-Lord in the animated version of Guardians of the Galaxy, replacing Chris Cox. He also performed the voices of Doyle in The Secret Saturdays, Lion-O in the rebooted ThunderCats series, and Blue Beetle on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. One of his most recent roles has been the speaking voice of Bumblebee in the final episode of Transformers: Prime and the movie Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising and in the stand-alone sequel series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, as well as in Transformers: Rescue Bots.

In December 2013, it was announced that Friedle would reprise his Boy Meets World role of Eric Matthews on the continuation series Girl Meets World.

Early life

Friedle was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Patricia Joan (ne Leary) and Gary Allen Friedle, both lawyers. After committing himself to becoming an actor, Friedle continually commuted from Avon, Connecticut to New York City for auditions. He graduated from Avon High School in 1994.

Friedle attended Occidental College. In the July 4, 2006 issue of People, Friedle mentioned he had thought about attending culinary school.

Career

After co-hosting Nickelodeon's Don't Just Sit There for three seasons (1988-1991), Friedle was cast as Cory Matthews' likeable but underachieving elder brother Eric on the long-running TV sitcom Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000.

In 2004, he co-starred with Chris Owen in the independent film National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (originally titled Lady Killers). He also appeared in a supporting role in the 2005 ABC Family movie Everything You Want. Friedle was cast as Mike in the WB sitcom Off Centre, but could not accept the role because of a previous commitment to the UPN series The Random Years. The role ended up going to Eddie Kaye Thomas.

Friedle voiced Seifer Almasy in the English version of the video game Kingdom Hearts II, Gideon Wyeth in the English version of the video game Advent Rising, and Jaster Rogue in the English version of the video game Rogue Galaxy.

Personal life

In 1997, Friedle dated American actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, and co-starred with her in the romantic teen comedy Trojan War. Hewitt made a guest appearance as Jennifer Love "Feffy" Fefferman on Boy Meets World episode "And Then There Was Shawn".

Friedle is best friends with actor Jason Marsden and was the best man at Marsden's wedding in October 2004. The two have also worked together in numerous productions: Boy Meets World, Trojan War, Static Shock, Kim Possible, Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, ThunderCats and Mad.

He married his girlfriend, Susan Martens, on September 25, 2016 in Connecticut.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Trojan War	Brad Kimble
2000	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker	Terry McGinnis/Batman	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
2003	National Lampoon's Gold Diggers	Calvin Menhoffer
2004	The Greatest Short Film Ever!!!	Mark	Short film
	Howl's Moving Castle	Additional voices	Voice role
2005	Everything You Want	Calvin Dillwaller
2008	Batman: Gotham Knight	Anton, Cultist, Youth #1	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
2015	Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts	Nightwing/Dick Grayson	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
	Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem	Nightwing/Dick Grayson	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
2016	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout	Nightwing/Dick Grayson	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
	Batman Unlimited: Mech vs. Mutants	Nightwing/Dick Grayson	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
2018	Batman Ninja	Tim Drake/Red Robin	Voice role Direct-to-DVD release
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Don't Just Sit There	Host
1992	Law & Order	Russ	Episode: "Trust"
1993-2000	Boy Meets World	Eric Matthews	Series regular (157 episodes) Young Artist Award (nominated)
1994	The Gift of Love	Luke	CBS television movie
	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Jimmy Armstrong	Episode: "The Tale of the Long Ago Locket"
1996	ABC Afterschool Special	Jason Gallagher	Episode: "Educating Mom"
1998	My Date with the President's Daughter	Duncan Fletcher	Disney Channel television movie
1999	Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane	Jeremy Pinter	Episode: "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
	H-E Double Hockey Sticks	Griffelkin	ABC television movie
	Odd Man Out	Phillip Evans	Episode: "Punch Line"
1999-2001	Batman Beyond	Terry McGinnis/Batman, additional voices	Voice role 48 episodes
2001	The Zeta Project	Terry McGinnis/Batman	Voice role Episode: "Shadows"
	3rd Rock from the Sun	Stan	Episode: "Dick Soup for the Soul"
	Go Fish	Pete Troutner	Series regular
2002	All That	Himself	Season 7, episode 6
2002	The Random Years	Alex	Series regular
2002-2007	Kim Possible	Ron Stoppable	Series regular Voice role 87 episodes
2003	Jack's House	Jack	Unsold television pilot
	Regular Joe	Larry	Episode: "Time and Punishment"
	Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time	Ron Stoppable	Voice role Disney Channel television movie
2003-2005	Lilo & Stitch: The Series	Mackey Macaw Manager, Ron Stoppable	Voice roles Episode: "Phantasmo" Episode: "Rufus"
2004	Static Shock	Terry McGinnis/Batman, Pilot	Voice role Episode: "Future Shock"
	Teen Titans	Fang, Frozen Promgoer	Voice role Episode: "Date with Destiny"
	Less Than Perfect	Caleb	Episode: "Claude Want to Know"
2004-2005	Justice League Unlimited	Kyle Rayner/Green Lantern, Terry McGinnis/Batman II, Redcoat #3	Voice roles Episode: "The Return" Episode: "The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time Warped" Episode: "Epilogue"
2005	Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama	Ron Stoppable	Voice role Disney Channel television movie
	Everything You Want	Calvin Dillwaller	ABC Family television movie
	The Batman	Gearhead	Voice role Episode: "RPM" Credited as Will Friedel
2006	American Dragon: Jake Long	Cousin Greggy	Voice role Episode: "Feeding Frenzy"
2008	Ben 10: Alien Force	Ken Tennyson	Voice role Episode: "Max Out"
	The Secret Saturdays	Doyle Blackwell	Voice role
2008	TMNT: Back to the Sewer	Splinter	Voice role
2009	Turtles Forever	Miyamoto Usagi, additional voices	Voice role
2008-2011	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle	Voice role
2010-2011	The Penguins of Madagascar	Randy the Sheep	Voice role
2010	Sym-Bionic Titan	Bryan, Jason, Student #1	Voice role
2011-2012	Thundercats	Lion-O/Leo	Voice role Writer (2 episodes)
2011	Mad	Lion-LOL, Captain America, Owen Lars	Voice role
2012-2013	Winx Club	Nereus	Voice role
2012	Gravity Falls	Reginald	Voice role
2012	Green Lantern: The Animated Series	Ragnar	Voice role
2013-2016	Ultimate Spider-Man	Wade Wilson/Deadpool Web-Beard	Voice role
	Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters	Bumblebee	Voice role
2013-present	Teen Titans Go!	Kid Flash	Writer (2 episodes) Voice role
2015-2017	Girl Meets World	Eric Matthews	Recurring role Writer (1 episode)
2015-2017	Transformers: Robots in Disguise	Bumblebee, additional voices	Voice role Writer (2 episodes)
2015	Avengers Assemble	Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Jeter Kan Toon	Voice role Replaces Chris Cox as Star-Lord in season 2
2015	Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.	Peter Quill/Star-Lord	Voice role Replaces Chris Cox in the episode "Planet Monster, Part 2"
2015	Guardians of the Galaxy	Peter Quill/Star-Lord	Voice role
Video games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Disney's Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist	Ron Stoppable
2003	Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu	Additional voices
2004	Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault	Willy Gaines
2005	Jade Empire	Lu the Prodigy
	Advent Rising	Gideon Wyeth
	Rogue Galaxy	Jaster Rogue
	Teen Titans	Fang
	Chicken Little
	Tony Hawk's American Wasteland	Hero/"Kensucky"
	Kingdom Hearts II	Seifer Almasy
2010	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Jamie Reyes/Blue Beetle
2013	Lego Marvel Super Heroes	Rick Jones, Archangel, Nova
Web series
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015-2017	Critical Role	Kashaw Vesh	Special guest on 5 episodes
2017-present	Painter's Guild	Himself	Host
Discography
Year	Album	Song	Notes
2003-2005	Kim Possible	The Naked Mole Rap (as Ron Stoppable)	Featuring Nancy Cartwright (as Rufus)