He said he was always aware of the career he wanted to achieve, which was acting. In an interview with GQ, a New York City-based men’s magazine, Greenfield said dropping out of college didn’t phase him as much as it infuriated his parents. He made his first big debut in 2004, playing the role of “Ike Green” in a drama called “Cross Bronx.”Īfter he graduated from Dobbs Ferry High School in New York, Greenfield attended the University of Wisconsin in 1998 for a short period of time as an art major, but dropped out his freshman year as he didn’t meet certain academic requirements. With a passion for acting since he was a child, Greenfield’s career took off in 2000 when he starred in an MTV show called “Undressed,” which allowed him to pursue other roles. The following year, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and the show won the Best Television Series Award. Over the years, the show received dozens of awards, including an Emmy in 2012 for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Main Title Design and Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, and Greenfield was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The show, which ran for seven seasons until 2018, is based on the everyday lives of four roommates including the main character Jess, played by actress Zooey Deschanel, who just moved into a loft with three men, one of them played by Greenfield. Greenfield is best known for starring as Schmidt in Fox’s “New Girl,” which started airing in 2011. In total, the kickoff and ULS will cost $25,990, including paying Greenfield and purchasing 200 mugs with the USF Week logo that will be given away to audience members. Up to 10,000 people will be able to attend the event, according to Student Programs Coordinator Isabelle Arroyo-Acevedo. on Microsoft Teams with 45 minutes of moderated questions from Sophia Nieves, a mass communications major, and 15 minutes of audience Q&A. and the ULS will run from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. The event will be held following the USF Week Kickoff. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLEĭropping out of college to follow his passions was something Max Greenfield didn’t think twice about, and during Monday’s University Lecture Series (ULS), he will share with students his life journey from earning a 0.67 GPA to becoming an award-winning actor in TV and film. For every rhythmic choice that people respond to, there’s ten more that I was asked to please say it normally.Max Greenfield, an Emmy-nominated actor best known for his role as Schmidt on the Fox TV show “New Girl,” will headline USF Week’s University Lecture Series. There’s always an obvious route and there’s one that maybe is a little bit different. On Schmidt’s particular cadence: “I hate to give myself credit for anything, but I will say I really enjoy, as an actor, and especially with comedy stuff, playing with different rhythms and with different ways around a joke. Style-wise, we’ve gone in very different directions.”ġ2. But let’s talk about New Girl, right?! Of the similarities between him and his character Schmidt, he says, “a lot of the neuroses. I don’t think anything gets done in this business without the gay community - at least not anything good.”ġ1. Listen, if the gay community thinks you’re doing a good job, you’re in. It means a lot, because you guys have the best taste. In Greek, he actually made history: “Paul James and I on Greek had the first gay kiss on ABC Family, and we went to the GLAAD Awards and everything. They married in 2008 and have two kids: Lilly and Ozzie.ġ0. He met his now-wife, Tess Sanchez, at age 22. He soon moved to Los Angeles in 1998, at age 18, and landed his first role in 1999 on a three-episode arc on MTV’s Undressed.Ħ. I’m sure they thought, ‘How many years is he going to waste before he decides, ‘Oh, this is not going to work,’ and then what does he do?’ It’s a scary thing.”ĥ. It wasn’t like I was dropping out like, ‘I’m not sure.’ I was like, ‘I’m gonna try to be an actor.’ I think they just, statistically, were like, the odds of that happening are very slim. But I think they were just terrified,” Greenfield recalls. When he dropped out, his parents were furious. “So pissed. “There was an acceptance that college went very wrong for me,” he once told a group of college students.Ĥ. He attended college “sort of,” and dropped out after getting a 0.67 GPA his freshman year. The theme of my real life barmitzvah was Saturday Night Live. Thanks to everyone who watched New Girl tonight. It was the only cool thing I had going for me at the time. So I think at the time it was like Spade, Chris Farley, Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, all those guys. ![]() ![]() As he told GQ, “I don’t know how I got away with this because most of my childhood was so embarrassing… On every table there was like the SNL logo with the faces of the different cast members who were currently on the show. He had a Saturday Night Live-themed bar mitzvah.
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