Ben Savage

Ben Savage
Savage at the ATX TV Festival in June 2015
Born	Bennett Joseph Savage (1980-09-13) September 13, 1980 (age 36) Highland Park, Illinois, United States
Alma mater	Stanford University
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1988–present
Relatives	Fred Savage (brother) Kala Savage (sister)

Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage (born September 13, 1980) is an American actor and television director. He is best known for his lead role as Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and its Disney Channel spin-off series Girl Meets World (2014–2017).

Savage was born in Highland Park, Illinois, the son of Joanne and Lewis Savage, who were an industrial real estate broker and a consultant. His older brother is actor/director Fred Savage, and his older sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were Jewish and from Poland, Ukraine, Germany, and Latvia, and Savage was raised in Reform Judaism.

Savage made his film debut at the age of 9 in his older brother Fred Savage's hit Little Monsters (1989) and appeared in the feature films Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992), as Sam, the brainy little brother, and as a 10-year-old in Clifford (1994), the latter starring Martin Short. Savage's stage debut was in The Laughter Epidemic at the Pasadena Playhouse. He also guest starred on his brother Fred's TV series The Wonder Years in the Valentine's Day episode.

His first major speaking role on network television was playing the recurring role of Matthew, son of the Judd Hirsch character, on the comedy series Dear John (1988). Then he was one of a family of orphans who con Robert Mitchum into being their guardian in A Family For Joe (NBC, 1990).