Kaufman was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His father is Jewish, while his mother is Catholic.[1] Kaufman began acting at a young age in his hometown when his kindergarten teacher handed him the plum lead role of Santa Claus in the class Christmas play.
At the age of 18, Kaufman moved from St. Louis to attend UCLA; he was a student in the Department of Theater Arts.
Career
Since his college years, Kaufman has studied and worked extensively as a professional actor in films and television.
He has worked with the Daly family of actors on several projects: He worked with Tim Daly on Superman: The Animated Series and its subsequent spin-offs, playing Jimmy Olsen. He also appeared with Daly in the series Wings in 1995 with his wife Lisa; the two portrayed a couple whose wedding Daly's character Joe and his fiancée Helen crash. He worked with Tim's sister, Tyne Daly on Kids Like These and joined Tim again in Justice League: Doom, reprising his role of Jimmy Olsen.
Kaufman has also worked as a commercial actor. One of his most prominent roles was as a dancing stockboy in a 1989 commercial for Hi-CEcto Cooler.[2][failed verification]
^Bloom, Nate (January 20, 2009). "Interfaith Celebrities: Loving Leah and Liev, Too". InterfaithFamily. Archived from the original on November 17, 2017 – via www.interfaithfamily.com. His father, he told me, is Jewish, but secular. His mother is a practicing Catholic, ...
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