1. In 2022, Strong was featured on Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
48 Facts About Jeremy Strong
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Jeremy Strong gained international recognition with his portrayal of Kendall Roy in the HBO drama series Succession, which won him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Jeremy Strong went on to feature in the films The Gentlemen, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Armageddon Time.
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That same year, Jeremy Strong received praise for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, which earned him nominations for the BAFTA, Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Jeremy Strong was born on Christmas Day 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Maureen and David Jeremy Strong.
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Jeremy Strong's mother is of Irish descent, and his father's family is Jewish, originally from Russia; his paternal grandfather worked as a plumber in Queens.
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Jeremy Strong's mother worked as a hospice nurse, and his father worked in juvenile jails.
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Jeremy Strong lived in a "rough neighborhood" in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston, a place he often regarded as "somewhere I just wanted to get out of".
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Jeremy Strong's parents had a tumultuous relationship throughout his childhood and eventually divorced.
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When Jeremy Strong was 10, his parents moved the family to the suburb of Sudbury, for better schools.
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Jeremy Strong recalled Sudbury as "a kind of country-club town where we didn't belong to the country club".
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Later, Evans and Jeremy Strong acted with each other in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Jeremy Strong worked on the sound crew for Amistad, holding a boom mike over Anthony Hopkins as he made a speech, and he helped to edit Pacino's directorial debut Looking for Richard.
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Jeremy Strong was accepted at Yale University and granted a scholarship, intending to study drama.
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Jeremy Strong continued to act and starred in a number of plays at Yale, all of them produced through the student-run Yale Dramatic Association, known as Dramat.
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Jeremy Strong arranged an offstage visit from Pacino, which did not go down well with other members of Dramat, because it was budgeted so extravagantly that it nearly bankrupted their organization.
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Jeremy Strong studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
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Jeremy Strong lived in a small apartment in SoHo, above a restaurant where he waited tables.
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Jeremy Strong described it as a state of "gilded squalor" in the words of Francis Bacon, with little but his bed, books, and a closet with expensive clothing.
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Jeremy Strong has stated that at the end of the shoot, Day-Lewis wrote him a note "that contains many of what have become my most deeply held precepts and beliefs about this work".
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Jeremy Strong has not publicized the contents of the note out of respect for Day-Lewis.
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Jeremy Strong returned to Williamstown in 2004 when he was cast with Jessica Chastain, Chris Messina, and Michelle Williams in The Cherry Orchard.
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Jeremy Strong became friends with all three actors, and for intermittent periods in the late 2000s, he lived in the basement of Williams' townhouse in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Boerum Hill when he could not afford his own apartment.
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Jeremy Strong took part in Marine weapons training at Camp Lejeune to prepare for his role as a marine in the John Patrick Shanley play Defiance.
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Also in 2008, Jeremy Strong was asked to understudy with six hours' notice for an actor who had a family emergency; by the next night, he had memorized all the character's lines.
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Jeremy Strong received favorable notice for this performance, and he was able to sign with an agent.
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Jeremy Strong portrayed Sir Richard Rich opposite Frank Langella as Sir Thomas More.
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Jeremy Strong played Abraham Lincoln's secretary John George Nicolay acting opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln.
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Jeremy Strong went on to play CIA analyst in Kathryn Bigelow's historical drama Zero Dark Thirty, Lee Harvey Oswald in political drama Parkland, James Reeb in Ava DuVernay's civil rights drama Selma, and a real estate developer in Aaron Sorkin's drama Molly's Game.
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Jeremy Strong was set to play a leading role in a major film for the first time in Kathryn Bigelow's period crime drama Detroit as a soldier and practiced his marksmanship in preparation, but was fired from the film after the first day of shooting because, according to Bigelow, "the character wasn't working in the story".
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Jeremy Strong later persuaded her to give him another part in the film.
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Jeremy Strong initially was interested in playing Roman Roy, the family's wisecracking youngest son, but after the part was given to Kieran Culkin, Strong auditioned for the part of the middle son Kendall Roy.
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Jeremy Strong appeared in Guy Ritchie's action comedy The Gentlemen, a film that he did not want to discuss on the record with The New Yorker.
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David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "Jeremy Strong gives Jerry a touching puppy-dog innocence and vulnerability".
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Jeremy Strong acted in the James Gray coming-of-age drama Armageddon Time alongside Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins.
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In 2024, Jeremy Strong returned to Broadway in the Amy Herzog adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People directed by Sam Gold.
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Jeremy Strong won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play, for his role as Dr Thomas Stockmann, a principled doctor who attempts to alert the public that their town's spa water is contaminated.
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Jeremy Strong next portrayed Roy Cohn, a ruthless lawyer and mentor to Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, in the biographical drama The Apprentice which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jeremy Strong has stated, "I think you have to go through whatever the ordeal is that the character has to go through".
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In preparation for his Succession audition for Kendall Roy, he read Michael Wolff's biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family, which mentions that Murdoch's son James is known for lacing his shoes very tightly; Jeremy Strong thus did the same for the audition, believing that it expressed the character's "inner tensile strength".
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On Succession, Jeremy Strong intentionally deepened his alienation from the rest of the cast by timing his visits to the makeup trailer so that he is the only one there at the time.
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Culkin has stated that Jeremy Strong's methods are not intrusive to his own process.
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However, he added that Jeremy Strong's performance "is always extraordinary and excellent".
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Such techniques are often referred to as method acting, but Jeremy Strong prefers the term "identity diffusion" because he does not draw on his own life experience.
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Jeremy Strong quoted jazz pianist Keith Jarrett to explain his approach to acting: "I connect every music-making experience I have, including every day here in the studio, with a great power, and if I do not surrender to it nothing happens".
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Jeremy Strong tends to pick films based on actual events, such as Selma, Detroit, and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
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In 2016, Jeremy Strong married Emma Wall, a Danish psychiatrist; they had met four years earlier at a party in New York during Hurricane Sandy.
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Jeremy Strong has received numerous accolades over his career for his roles on stage and screen.