
Photo: Montclair Film / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
David Krumholtz is my favorite species of actor: the one whose face you have trusted for thirty years before you ever learned his name. Watch him jump from Bernard the elf to a crime-solving mathematician on Numb3rs to a quietly devastating Isidor Rabi in Oppenheimer, and the through-line is total believability at any scale. Child actors rarely survive into steady adult careers; he did it without scandal or reinvention gimmicks, just consistent work. I would argue performers like him are the load-bearing walls of American film and television — stars sell the tickets, but character actors like Krumholtz make the stories stand up.
Overview
David Krumholtz (born May 15, 1978) is an American actor. Krumholtz is best known for portraying Bernard in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–present), Michael Eckman in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Goldstein in the Harold & Kumar film trilogy (2004–2011), Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs (2005–2010), and Isidor Isaac Rabi in Oppenheimer (2023).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- David Krumholtz
- Name (Japanese)
- デヴィッド・クラムホルツ
- Reading
- でゔぃっど・くらむほるつ
- Born
- May 15, 1978 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Horse
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / stage actor / television actor / photographer / screenwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Forest Hills High School
- University
- New York University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.