Michael C. Maronna

Maronna was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a firefighter father and a guidance counselor mother.^[1] He is of one half Italian, three-eighths Irish, and one-eighth Dutch descent.^[1] He was the first grandchild in a big family, which included one younger brother and sister.^[2][3] As a teenager, he went to Hunter College High School in New York City, before attending Purchase College of the State University of New York, where he studied documentary/nonfiction filmmaking.^[1][4]

Maronna appeared in his first commercial at a very young age, and it was for a Scott Paper advertisement.^[2] He played older Pete Wrigley in the television show The Adventures of Pete & Pete on Nickelodeon (from 1989 to 1996), as well as the character of Jeff McCallister in the movie Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), when he was 13 and 15 respectively. In the first one he says the line "Kevin, you are such a disease!", which became widely popular.^[5][6] He also portrayed a teenage killer in an episode of Law & Order.

Maronna was in a widely seen series of 1999 ads for TD Ameritrade as Stuart, a slacker employee of a clueless boss whom he helps get on the internet with over-the-top zealousness.^[7] Maronna reprised the role in a comedy reel with Bill Clinton, which was shown at Clinton's final appearance as the President of the United States at the 2000 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.^[8]

In the 2000s, Maronna appeared in the movies Slackers and 40 Days and 40 Nights.^[9] Other credits include roles in Sex and the City and Be Kind Rewind.^[9]

He also appeared in music videos for the 2007 Nada Surf song "Whose Authority"^[10] and The XYZ Affair's "All My Friends".

Maronna's stepped away from acting in 2013, and since then he has worked as an electrician on films and television in New York.^[11] He co-hosts the podcast The Adventures of Danny and Mike with his Adventures of Pete and Pete co-star Danny Tamberelli.^[12] He has resumed acting in the 2020s.