Bryan Greenberg was born on May 24,1978 and is an American actor and singer, known for his starring role as Ben Epstein in the HBO original series How to Make It in America as well as a recurring role as Jake Jagielski in the WB series One Tree Hill and as Nick Garrett on the short-lived ABC drama October Road.
21 Facts About Bryan Greenberg
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Bryan Greenberg was born to Jewish parents; he was raised in Conservative Judaism and attended Beth El Synagogue in Omaha.
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Bryan Greenberg had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, belonged to Jewish youth groups, went to Jewish summer camps, and traveled to Israel.
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Bryan Greenberg toured with the show for two months and joined a children's theater company in Omaha.
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Bryan Greenberg graduated from Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri in 1996.
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Bryan Greenberg attended and worked at a Jewish summer camp located in Webster, Wisconsin, called Herzl Camp.
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Bryan Greenberg starred as Joseph in a camp-wide production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1992.
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Bryan Greenberg received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at New York University in 2000.
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Bryan Greenberg was cast as Romeo in NYU's performance of Romeo and Juliet and performed with the Experimental Theater Workshop, the Atlantic Theater Company and the Amsterdam Experimental Workshop.
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Bryan Greenberg's first starring role was in the Ben Younger film Prime.
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Bryan Greenberg played David Bloomberg, a young artist who falls in love with one of his mother Meryl Streep's therapy patients, played by Uma Thurman.
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Bryan Greenberg then starred in October Road on ABC and appeared with Alan Rickman in the film Nobel Son in 2008.
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In 2009, Bryan Greenberg appeared in the film Bride Wars with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and starred opposite Alexis Bledel and Scott Porter in the indie film The Good Guy, which was released in February 2010.
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In 2012, Bryan Greenberg co-starred with Laura Prepon in the independent comedy film The Kitchen.
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That same year, Bryan Greenberg starred in the dark comedy film The Normals, which follows a young man who enters a two-week clinical trial of an anti-psychotic treatment at a drug-testing center in Queens.
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In 2013, Bryan Greenberg began shooting the untitled Lance Armstrong biopic alongside Ben Foster, who will play Armstrong.
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In 2007, Bryan Greenberg released his debut album, Waiting for Now.
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Bryan Greenberg has toured with Gavin DeGraw, Michael Tolcher, Ari Hest, and Graham Colton.
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At his New York City Show at the High Line Ballroom, Bryan Greenberg was joined by How to Make it in America co-star Kid Cudi.
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In 2011, Bryan Greenberg released his second album, We Don't Have Forever, produced by Thom Monahan, which included the single "Walk Away".
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Bryan Greenberg said he wrote the record over a period of two years when he was going through a lot of changes and decided to title the record We Don't Have Forever to reflect that.