Where’s Eddie Kaye, Finch from American Pie. 2023?

Many of the teen actors in the ensemble cast of the 1999 film’s first installment, particularly Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott, took off as a result. Eddie Kaye Thomas’ breakthrough role in high school bawdy comedy was as Finch (rarely used first name Paul), the prettiest member of the group who vows to lose their virginity before graduating from Great Falls High School. Finch gets his retribution at the end when he meets – and becomes fascinated with – Stifler’s mother, who bullied him for much of the trilogy’s first installment. Find out what else Thomas has been up to in his career after playing the same espresso-sipping character in three sequels by reading on.

He started his career as a child actor.

When Thomas was barely seven years old, he started his stage career. The Staten Island native made his stage debut in 1992 as an understudy in the Broadway production of Four Baboons Adoring the Sun. In 1997, he made his Broadway debut in a production of The Diary of Anne Frank starring Natalie Portman, then 16 years old. He made his television debut in 1994 in the shows Two Guys and a Girl, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and One Life to Live. Prior to American Pie, he also appeared in episodes of Illtown, Mr. Jealousy and Harvest, as well as in episodes of Felicity and Law & Order. When the classic teen sex comedy came out, he was 19 years old.

Lately he has been playing more and more serious roles.

Despite spending several years as Finch, Thomas avoided being used as a type in other roles. He has since played both comedic and tragic roles, as well as going back to his theatrical origins in a few off-Broadway productions. Following the success of the first American Pie, which helped define a generation, Thomas starred in a number of silly comedies, such as Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Love, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and Freddy Got Fingered, which starred and was directed by Tom Green, an absurdist MTV personality. Shattered Memories and Alex and the List both have more recent movie roles.

However, Thomas appears more often on TV. He appeared in The X-Files, Wonderfalls, Family Guy and This Is Us in the 2000s and ’10s and had major roles in ‘Til Death, How to Make It in America and Scorpion. He appeared in Prodigal Son in 2021 after guest appearances in Outmatched and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2020.
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He’s quite withdrawn.

Thomas does not use social media and rarely discusses his personal life in public. We do know that in real life he is best friends with Biggs, who revealed in a Build interview that they knew each other before being chosen for the role of Biggs in American Pie, as they were both child actors in New York City at the time. After seeing his friend’s first driver’s license, the actor also shared a humorous story about how he is one of the few individuals in the industry who knows about Thomas’ real identity, as he uses it professionally.

It is unclear who 41-year-old Thomas is currently dating. At one point, the actor dated Ari Graynor, with whom he shared roles in the 2005 off-Broadway play Dog Sees God and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

He’s always up for another American Pie.

Thomas has caught up with his young co-stars on other occasions, except for filming American Pie 2 in 2001, American Wedding in 2003, and American Reunion in 2012. In an Entertainment Tonight special, the actors reunited in 2019 to mark the 20th anniversary of the original movie. And he made his debut in 2020 in the Biggs sitcom Outmatched with Alyson Hannigan, who plays Michelle the band nerd in the comedy series.

It’s clear why the ensemble continues to find time for each other, as Thomas noted in 2011 when discussing the cast’s decision to reunite for a fourth film after a lengthy American Pie hiatus. He told Complex: “We laughed so much, it seemed effortless, it was a fun time and there was a lot of laughter and togetherness.