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}} Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American television producer, film-maker, actor and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres. He is the creator of the TV series ''Family Guy'' (1999–2003, 2005–present), co-creator of the TV series ''American Dad!'' (2005–present) and ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–13), and writer-director of the films ''Ted'' (2012), its sequel ''Ted 2'' (2015), and ''A Million Ways to Die in the West'' (2014). MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation. Recruited to Hollywood, he was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for several television series, including ''Johnny Bravo'', ''Cow and Chicken'', ''Dexter's Laboratory'', ''I Am Weasel'', and his own ''Family Guy''-like "prequel", ''Larry & Steve''. As an actor, he has made guest appearances on series, such as ''Gilmore Girls'', ''The War at Home'' and ''FlashForward''. In 2008, he created his own YouTube series titled ''Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy''. He won several awards for his work on ''Family Guy'', including two Primetime Emmy Awards and an Annie Award. In 2009, he won the Webby Award for Film & Video Person of the Year. He occasionally speaks at universities and colleges throughout the United States, and he is a supporter of gay rights. His first feature-length comedy film ''Ted'' also features MacFarlane's voice acting and performance-capture as the titular walking and talking teddy bear, and became the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy. As a singer MacFarlane has performed at several venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. MacFarlane has released three studio albums, in the same vein of his musical idol Frank Sinatra, beginning with ''Music Is Better Than Words'' in 2011. He wrote the lyrics for the Academy Award-nominated song "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" for ''Ted''. MacFarlane served as executive producer of ''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'', an update of the 1980s Carl Sagan–hosted ''Cosmos'' series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. MacFarlane was instrumental in providing funding for the series, as well as securing studio support for it from other entertainment executives. ==Early life and education== Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born in Kent, Connecticut. His parents, Ronald Milton MacFarlane (born 1946) and Ann Perry (née Sager; 1947–2010), were born in Newburyport, Massachusetts.〔 His sister is voice actress Rachael Ann MacFarlane (born 1976). He is of English, Scottish, and Irish descent, with roots in New England going back to the 1600s, including descent from ''Mayflower'' passenger William Brewster.〔 MacFarlane's parents met in 1970, when they both lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and married later that year.〔 The couple moved to Kent in 1972, where Ann began working in the Admissions Office at South Kent School. She later worked in the College Guidance and Admissions Offices at the Kent School, a selective college preparatory school where Ronald also was a teacher.〔 During his childhood, MacFarlane developed an interest in illustration and began drawing cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker, as early as two years old. By the age of five, MacFarlane knew that he would want to pursue a career in animation, and began by creating flip books, after his parents found a book on the subject for him. Four years later, aged nine, MacFarlane began publishing a weekly comic strip titled "Walter Crouton" for ''The Kent Good Times Dispatch'', the local newspaper in Kent, Connecticut, which paid him five dollars per week.〔 In one anecdote from the time, MacFarlane said in an October 2011 interview that as a child he was always "weirdly fascinated by the Communion ceremony". He created a strip with a character kneeling at the altar taking Communion and asking "Can I have fries with that?" The paper printed it and he got an "angry letter" from the local priest; it led to "sort of a little mini-controversy" in the town.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seth MacFarlane: TV's 'Family Guy' Makes Music, Too )〕 MacFarlane received his high school diploma in 1991 from the Kent School.〔〔 While there, he continued experimenting with animation, and his parents gave him an 8 mm camera. MacFarlane went on to study film, video and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.〔 As a student, he had originally intended to work for Disney, but changed his mind upon graduating.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seth MacFarlane – Biography )〕 At RISD MacFarlane created a series of independent films, eventually meeting future ''Family Guy'' cast member Mike Henry, whose brother Patrick was MacFarlane's classmate. During his time at RISD, MacFarlane performed stand-up comedy. In his senior year at RISD MacFarlane created a thesis film titled ''The Life of Larry'', which eventually would become the inspiration for ''Family Guy''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seth MacFarlane – Profile )〕 MacFarlane's professor submitted his film to the animation studio Hanna-Barbera, where he was later hired.〔 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「Seth MacFarlane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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