Anecdotes

Won sixth place in a California gymnastics tournament at the age of 10 (one can see Ethan doing back flips in Ce soir, tout est permis (1998), right after the scene where someone calls Mike Dexter a fag).

Plays in a band, Southern Comfort Colonic, which is a mix of punk and hardcore speed metal.

Appeared with Ed O'Neill in Dutch (1991) at the age of 13 and later played his partner in Dragnet (2003).

Last name was Randall, but he changed it to Embry because it was his grandfather's last name.

Divorced from his wife of seven years Sunny Mabrey due to "irreconcilable differences" in July 2012. The two reconciled and started dating in 2013 and remarried in June 2015.

Revealed he has been battling opiate addiction for the last six years including prescription painkillers and black tar heroin. (mai 2017)

Writes with his left hand, but plays his guitar with his right hand.

In between the films Les Wonders (1996) and Vacances à Las Vegas (1997), he only had two days off.

Ce soir, tout est permis (1998) opened the day before Ethan's 20th birthday.

At the age of 22, Ethan had already appeared in many TV and radio commercials, movies (including doing his own stunts in one), produced and directed a short film (at the age of 13), co-produced another film, married, and become a father.

Is the owner of many pets (in 1998, he had five cats and eight dogs).

Did his own stunts in White Squall (1996).

Produced an unreleased movie titled "Taken" with his White Squall (1996) co-star and friend, Jeremy Sisto. A friend of Embry's was to direct it.

He has said that he gave his unnamed character in Les Wonders (1996) the first name "Tobias". It was something for him to hold onto as an actor.

The song "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits plays in the background in scenes featuring him in two different movies, Empire Records (1995) and Ce soir, tout est permis (1998).

Settled a lawsuit with model Angelina Roudeza who had sued him after being thrown from his motorcycle three years earlier. (2008)

(December 10, 1999) Amelinda Smith gave birth to their son, Cogeian coming from the Latin word cogeo meaning "to think over" while Ethan Embry's 1993 Un endroit fabuleux (1993) was still airing.

(November 14, 1998) Married actress Amelinda Smith (auditioned to play Stacy in the CBS sitcom Work with Me (1999), but Emily Rutherfurd landed the role. Ethan read Amelinda's script, liked it, auditioned and snagged the role of Sebastian).

Kessia Embry is his younger sister.

Middle brother of Aaron Embry and Kessia Embry.

He is of English, and smaller amounts of Irish and German, descent.

Is interested in photography.