|
}} Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality, known as co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series ''MythBusters'' and ''Unchained Reaction''. His model work has appeared in major films, including ''Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones'' and ''The Matrix Reloaded''. He is a prominent member of the skeptic community. He lives in San Francisco with his twin sons and wife, Julia. ==Early life== Born in New York City, Savage was raised in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School in 1985. His Grandfather, Cushman Haagensen, was a surgeon who pioneered in breast-cancer surgery.〔Adam tells this in (Tour of Adam Savage's Home Office )〕 His father, Whitney Lee Savage (1928–1998), was a painter, filmmaker and animator known for his work on ''Sesame Street'', and has a permanent exhibit in the Avampato Discovery Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Artist Profile: W. Lee Savage (1928-1998) )〕 His mother is a psychotherapist. His sister Kate Savage is also an artist. As a teenager in Sleepy Hollow, he routinely visited the local bike shop to have flat tires fixed. The shop showed him how to do the repairs himself. From this experience, Savage said, "I realized you could take a bike apart and put it back together and it wasn't that hard...I've been building and putting bicycles together since then."〔 Savage began acting as a child, and has had five years of acting school.〔 His early credits include voicing animated characters that his father produced for ''Sesame Street'', Mr. Whipple's stock boy "Jimmy" in a Charmin commercial, a helper in the special effects of ''Star Wars'', and a drowning young man saved by a lifeguard in the 1985 Billy Joel music video "You're Only Human (Second Wind)". Describing the early abandonment of his acting career, Savage said that "by the time I was, I guess probably nineteen, I had passed on that in favor of doing stuff with my hands – graphic design, assistant animation in New York, and then eventually working in theater in San Francisco, and film special effects. Then ''MythBusters'' came along and it was the perfect marriage of two things, performance and special effects." On November 25, 2011, Savage received an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) for his role in the popularization of science and technology.〔(UT awards honorary doctorates to MythBusters, two leading scientists and a business pioneer ) - website of the University of Twente〕〔(Mythbuster in Nederland ) - website EenVandaag ''(Dutch)''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Savage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|