Tuesday, January 11, 2005

_____Lex Luthor


Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor)

Michael Rosenbaum was born on July 11, 1972 in Oceanside, Long Island, New York, and raised in Indiana. He first got the acting bug doing high school plays and then did productions at Western Kentucky University. He first got widespread notice as one of the "Amsterdam Kids" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Michael enjoys ice hockey, and yes, he did shave his head for the role of Lex Luthor. He has also been keeping quite busy -- in addition to appearing as Lex in Smallville, Michael is doing several movies, he is the lead voice in The Zeta Project and will be providing the voice of Wally West/The Flash in the upcoming Justice League animated series.

Previous Credits: (Movies) Urban Legend, Sweet November, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, (Television) Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, The Tom Show, (Voice) Batman Beyond, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Upcoming/Current Credits: (Movies) Rave MacBeth, Poolhall Junkies, Sorority Boys, G-S.P.O.T., (Voice) The Zeta Project, Justice League

Lex Luthor

* Lex is 21 years old.

* Lex has thick red hair until an accident at age 9. After that his father, Lionel Luthor, could not look at him the same way again.

* Lex was teased & ridiculed for his baldness while he attended the best boarding schools money could buy. He soon learned to fight back and he was kicked out of several of the schools.

* Lex graduated from Metropolis University at the top of his class. Afterward he assumed he would take a place next to his father at Luthor Corp... an assumption not shared by his father, who sends him to Smallville to turn a struggling fertilizer plant around. Lex's father tells him that if he can, he will be brought back to Metropolis to assume the Luthor Corp crown. Lex knows his father is playing games with him -- and vows to build his own empire and bring his father down.

* There is no sign in the "Smallville" pilot that Lex Luthor is evil, which could mean the character will be written as someone that the viewers will actually like.