Josh Saviano - Biography

Joshua David "Josh" Saviano (born March 31, 1976) is an American lawyer and former actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Joshua Pfeiffer, in the comedy-drama television show The Wonder Years.

Biography

Saviano was born in White Plains, New York and raised in northern New Jersey, the son of Jane and Ralph Saviano, a financial consultant. His role in The Wonder Years was one of his few television or movie roles. His first television appearance was a one-liner role in a commercial for Aim toothpaste. Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie The Wrong Guys in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie Camp Cucamonga in 1990. The latter was his last film or television role other than his role in The Wonder Years, which he played until the show's end in 1993. He guest starred on the show The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1989 as Willie and on Reading Rainbow and Fun House as himself. Similarities between Saviano's character Paul Pfeiffer and The Simpsons character Milhouse Van Houten have been observed, both in terms of their appearance and their roles as the geeky side-kick friend to the protagonist.

Saviano majored in Political Science at Yale University where he became president of Sigma Nu Fraternity. Upon graduation in 1998 he worked for a while as a paralegal for a New York City law firm. In 2000, he worked for an Internet firm before entering Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in August of the same year. He was admitted to the bar in New York. He is currently a Senior Counsel with Morrison Cohen LLP. He is in the Corporate Department and Intellectual Property Group where he works on issues related to mergers and acquisition and intellectual property.

Urban legend

For some time, an urban myth circulated that Saviano grew up to be singer Marilyn Manson (whose real name is Brian Warner), but there is no truth in this. Saviano himself has addressed the urban legend, stating that in college he received as many as 20 emails a day asking about the subject, and that he considered himself honored that people associated him with a rock star rather than a geek.

External links

• Morrison Cohen LLP biography
• Photos and a small article on Josh Saviano