Background
Fishman was born in Los Angeles, California.
Fishman was born in Los Angeles, California.
Roseanne: 1988–1997 Fishman"s acting career began after he met Roseanne Barr during an early audition. She asked him to tell her a joke. He said, "Why did the turtle cross the road?.
Chicken"s day official" She was impressed, and although he had no experience, Barr fought for Fishman to play Doctorate.J. Conner.
He worked on Roseanne from age six to fifteen. Post-Roseanne work: 1997–2000 After nine seasons, Roseanne ended in 1997.
Fishman lamented, "the end of the show was one of the hardest times of my life. I was devastated. The cast and crew were my family.
I"ll always love so many of those people.
They shaped me as a person and made me who I am". Fishman continued to act while attending the Orange County High School of the Arts at Los Alamitos High School in the Musical Theater and Technical Theater departments. He appeared in guest roles on Walker, Texas Ranger and Seinfeld, and earned a recurring role alongside Andrew Dice Clay on Hitz just before it was canceled.
Fishman also appeared in films, including Steven Spielberg"s Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence He then reconnected with Barr as a co-host of The Roseanne Show, which ran for two years before it was canceled in 2000.
Return to entertainment industry: 2006–present After the death of Glenn Quinn, Fishman reconnected with his entertainment industry roots.
He began working behind the camera to gain the technical skills "necessary to move toward directing and producing", and has done set building, set design, camera operating, assistant directing and props. Fishman was the primary builder and fabricator in an art department group nominated for an in "Outstanding Secretariat Design / Art Direction" on "Sports Science". Since 2006, Fishman has been taking acting classes to "refine my acting skills in order to return as an adult".
During these years, he has also begun to write and create his own material.
In a recent interview he declared, "I"m back pursuing my first love. You don"t always know how much you love something until it"s gone.
Losing Glenn Quinn reminded me how little time we have and motivated my pursuit of acting again full time". Fishman"s goal is "to not only earn good work as an actor, but write and produce good work for others
I take professionalism very seriously.
Whoever hires me is getting a motivated blue-collar worker ready to show what I can do as an adult”. On August 3, 2011, Fishman appeared on the Passover episode (season 1 episode 7) of Barr"s reality show Roseanne"s Nuts. Fishman wrapped "Undrafted" starring with Aaron Tveit, Chace Crawford, Tyler Hoechlin, Joseph Mazzello, Philip Winchester, Matt Barr, James Belushi, Billy Gardell and Manny Montana YoungStar.