Josh Saviano

Josh Saviano
Born Joshua David Saviano
March 31, 1976
White Plains, New York
Occupation Former Child Actor; Present Lawyer
Years active 1988–1993

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

Life and career

Saviano was born in White Plains, New York and raised in Northern New Jersey,[1] the son of Jane and Ralph Saviano, a financial consultant.[2] 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. He guest starred on the show The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1989 as Willie and on Reading Rainbow and Fun House as himself. Saviano once starred in a television commercial for the Oldsmobile Silhouette.

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 was a Partner at Morrison Cohen LLP, and was in the Corporate Department and Intellectual Property Group where he works on issues related to mergers and acquisition and intellectual property.[3]

In 2014, Saviano returned to television to play a lawyer on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

References

  1. ↑ "Thechat". washingtonpost.com. 2006-08-07. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  2. ↑ Green, Tom (1989-04-11). "Josh Saviano, no small `Wonder'". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  3. ↑ "Our People-Josh Saviano-Biography". Morrisoncohen.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.

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