Seth MacFarlane Biography

Fast Facts

• Started drawing cartoons at age 2; his comic strip Walter Crouton was published in his hometown newspaper when he was 8 years old
• Was hired by Hanna-Barbera directly after college when a professor sent his thesis film to the Hollywood animators
• Evil baby Stewie Griffin on Family Guy is based on his cousin Tyler
• Was booked on the hijacked Sept
• 11, 2001, Boston-to-Los Angeles flight that hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, but he missed the plane
• An avid Trekker, he guest-starred on episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2004 and 2005; he also appeared on a 2002 episode of Gilmore Girls