David Krumholtz

David Krumholtz (born May 15, 1978) is an American actor and comedian. Krumholtz portrayed Bernard in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–2022) and Goldstein in the Harold & Kumar film trilogy (2004–2011). He also acted in the comedy films Addams Family Values (1993), and 10 Things I Hate About You (1998). He portrayed Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs (2005–2010). He also voiced Lavash in Sausage Party (2016). Krumholtz has since acted in supporting roles in dramatic films such as Serenity (2005), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Wonder Wheel (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Oppenheimer (2023). He also portrayed Harvey Wasserman in the HBO drama series The Deuce (2017–2019), Monty Levin in Showtime miniseries The Plot Against America (2020), and William Bittman in the HBO miniseries White House Plumbers (2023). Krumholtz made his Broadway debut in the 1992 play Conversations with My Father. He returned to Broadway playing Hermann Merz in Tom Stoppard's semi-biographical Holocaust play Leopoldstadt (2022) for which he received a Drama League Award nomination. Early life Krumholtz grew up in the Queens borough of New York City. He is the son of Michael, a postal worker, and Judy Krumholtz, a dental assistant. He grew up in a "very working-class, almost poor" Jewish family. His paternal grandparents had emigrated from Poland, and his mother moved from Hungary to the U.S. in 1956.