His great-grandfather was David Rabinovitch/Robitaille from Chisinäu. He at- tended Jewish day school in Montreal and has taught fourth-graders at a synagogue religious school in Southern California. In Montreal, Elman began performing in plays such as The Children's Hour and Annie Get Your Gun before landing his first roles in TV (Are You Afraid of the Dark? and film Johnny Mnemonic). Elman gradua- ted from McGill University with a BA in English. He was part of the ensemble cast of the film Shattered Glass opposite Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, and has guest-starred on numerous popular series including Crossing Jordan, Criminal Minds, Without aTrace, CSI: NY and The Closer. Recent roles include starring oppo- site Armand Assante in California Dreamingwhich won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival; portraying a young Sigmund Freud, again opposite Assante and Ben Cross, in When Nietzsche Wept, and on the small screen, where he improvised with Larry David in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2009, Elman be- gan work on his first webseries titled Brainstorm for Dailymotion.com. In April 2010, Elman appeared on the soap opera The Young and the Restless as Jamie Peterson. Elman and Eli Batalion direct and act in YidLife Crisis, a series of short comedy sket- ches about two 30-something Jewish friends. Most of the dialog is in Yiddish, which the two use as a secret language, but subtitles are provided in English and French.