Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, writer and filmmaker.
75 Facts About Jesse Eisenberg
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Jesse Eisenberg has received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Jesse Eisenberg is known for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's film The Social Network, which earned him nominations for the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Actor.
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In 2009, Jesse Eisenberg had his breakthrough with starring roles in the comedy-drama film Adventureland, and the horror comedy Zombieland.
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Jesse Eisenberg has since starred in the Woody Allen films To Rome with Love and Cafe Society, the heist films Now You See Me, its 2016 sequel and the dramas The Double, The End of the Tour, The Art of Self-Defense.
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Jesse Eisenberg voiced Blu in the animated films Rio and Rio 2.
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Jesse Eisenberg released his film directorial debut with the A24 film When You Finish Saving the World.
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Jesse Eisenberg has contributed pieces to The New Yorker and McSweeney's websites.
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Jesse Eisenberg has written and starred in three plays for the New York stage: Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils.
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Jesse Eisenberg released his first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories in 2015.
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Jesse Adam Eisenberg was born in Astoria in the Queens borough of New York City on October 5,1983, and grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Jesse Eisenberg has two sisters: Hallie Eisenberg, a former child actress who was once famous as the "Pepsi girl" in a series of commercials; and Kerri Eisenberg, now Kerry Lea, who worked as an actress, ran a vegetarianism- and animal rights-based children's theatre troupe, and is an independent artist in New York.
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Jesse Eisenberg was raised in a secular Jewish household, with his ancestry tracing back to Poland and Ukraine.
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Jesse Eisenberg attended the East Brunswick Public Schools at Frost Elementary School, Hammarskjold Middle School, Churchill Junior High School, and spent his sophomore and junior years at East Brunswick High School.
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Jesse Eisenberg then transferred to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York for his senior year.
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Jesse Eisenberg struggled to fit in at school due to an anxiety disorder, and began acting in plays at an early age.
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Jesse Eisenberg had his first professional role in Arje Shaw's off-Broadway play The Gathering at age 16.
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Jesse Eisenberg started writing screenplays at 16, some of which were optioned by major studios, but he claimed that he was dissatisfied with the lack of control he had over his creations once they were sold.
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Jesse Eisenberg once got into trouble with Woody Allen's lawyers when, as a teenager, he penned a play about how Allen came to change his name and managed to get the script to Allen's "people".
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Jesse Eisenberg later starred in two films directed by Allen, To Rome with Love and Cafe Society.
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Jesse Eisenberg made his television debut in the series Get Real, from 1999 to 2000.
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Jesse Eisenberg was sick for the majority of the nightclub scene and can be seen sweating in different shots.
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In 2005, Jesse Eisenberg appeared in Cursed, a horror film directed by Wes Craven, and The Squid and the Whale, a well-reviewed independent drama starring Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels.
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In 2007, he starred opposite Richard Gere and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party, a comic thriller in which he plays an American journalist reporting from Bosnia and was cast in the indie comic-drama Holy Rollers alongside his sister, Hallie Jesse Eisenberg, who played his fictional sister in the film.
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Jesse Eisenberg played a young Hasidic Jew who becomes involved in the ecstasy smuggling trade, using his religion as a disguise to deal without suspicion.
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In 2009, Jesse Eisenberg played the lead role alongside Kristen Stewart which would be the first of many collaborations between them in Adventureland, a comedy directed by Greg Mottola and filmed in Kennywood Park, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Jesse Eisenberg's first major box office success was a lead role in the horror-comedy Zombieland.
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Jesse Eisenberg starred opposite Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as a group of survivors on a road trip through a post-zombie apocalypse America, and was a sleeper hit.
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On November 22,2010, Jesse Eisenberg was honored, along with Whoopi Goldberg, Joycelyn Engle, and Harvey Krueger, at the Children at Heart Celebrity Dinner Gala and Fantasy Auction, to benefit the children of the Chernobyl disaster.
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On January 29,2011, Jesse Eisenberg hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC, with musical guest Nicki Minaj.
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Jesse Eisenberg starred alongside Anne Hathaway, his former co-star from Get Real, as well as George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, will.
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Jesse Eisenberg featured in one song, "Real in Rio", in the film's soundtrack, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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Jesse Eisenberg starred alongside Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, and Nick Swardson in 30 Minutes or Less, a film noir heist-comedy about a pizza delivery man, played by Eisenberg, who is forced to rob a bank, which was released in August 2011.
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In October 2011, Jesse Eisenberg made his playwriting debut in Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's Off-Broadway production of Asuncion, staged at Cherry Lane Theatre.
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Jesse Eisenberg acted in the play, which was directed by Kip Fagan.
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Jesse Eisenberg was on set for one day of filming in 2007, earned about $3,000, and logged only a few minutes of total screen time.
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Jesse Eisenberg's lawsuit asserts various California law causes of action, including claims for unfair business practices and publicity rights.
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In 2013, Jesse Eisenberg reunited with Woody Harrelson for the magician heist thriller Now You See Me, playing a world-famous close-up magician and street performer recruited into a secret group of elite magicians to pull off bank heists with magic tricks, redistributing the money from a wealthy businessman to victims of his corrupt capitalist schemes.
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Jesse Eisenberg debuted his second play, The Revisionist, and starred in Richard Ayoade's drama, The Double, which was shot in 2012.
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In 2015, Jesse Eisenberg portrayed Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky in the biographical drama film The End of the Tour, appearing opposite Jason Segel, who portrayed the late author David Foster Wallace.
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On September 8,2015, Jesse Eisenberg released his first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, a collection of short humor pieces.
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Jesse Eisenberg has voiced for two other plays, The Final Interrogation of Ceaucescu's Dog, written by Warren Leight, and The Blizzard, written by David Ives and directed by John Rando.
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Jesse Eisenberg played the supervillain Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was released in March 2016, to generally negative reviews.
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Jesse Eisenberg then reunited with Woody Allen and Kristen Stewart in Cafe Society.
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Jesse Eisenberg again played the lead role, along with Nayyar and Sriram, while Zegen and Darke's characters were replaced by Alfie Allen and Katie Brayben respectively.
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In May 2016, Jesse Eisenberg teased that he would reprise his role of Lex Luthor in the Justice League film.
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Jesse Eisenberg joined Riley Stearns's dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense alongside Imogen Poots and Alessandro Nivola.
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Jesse Eisenberg starred alongside Alexander Skarsgard as a high-frequency trader in Kim Nguyen's tech drama The Hummingbird Project that was released in 2018.
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In 2019, Jesse Eisenberg starred in the sequel Zombieland: Double Tap, directed by Ruben Fleischer.
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Jesse Eisenberg portrayed the famous mime Marcel Marceau in 2020 film Resistance, written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz.
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Jesse Eisenberg reappeared as Luthor in Zack Snyder's Justice League for altered post-credits scene version alongside Manganiello.
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Jesse Eisenberg starred as Toby Fleishman in FX's limited series Fleishman is in Trouble opposite Lizzy Caplan.
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Jesse Eisenberg made his feature directorial debut in When You Finish Saving the World which was adapted from his own original audiobook series.
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Jesse Eisenberg is writing and directing a comedy adaptation of Bream Gives Me Hiccups with Jax Media, starring Parker Posey, Victor Rasuk, and Elliott Smith.
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Jesse Eisenberg will join Pierce Brosnan and Vanessa Redgrave in a film based on the book The Wreck of Medusa about the painting The Raft of the Medusa as artist Theodore Gericault.
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Jesse Eisenberg dated Anna Strout from 2002 to 2012 after they met on the set of The Emperor's Club, where she worked as an assistant to Lisa Bruce.
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Jesse Eisenberg then dated Mia Wasikowska, his co-star in The Double, from 2013 to 2015.
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Jesse Eisenberg later resumed his relationship with Strout, and they married in 2017.
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Jesse Eisenberg lived in New York City with his younger sister Hallie and her boyfriend, singer-songwriter Owen Danoff, until June 2016, when Hallie and Danoff moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
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Jesse Eisenberg had enjoyed playing the drums since he was eight years old.
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In 2007, Jesse Eisenberg started an online wordplay website with his cousin, a social design evangelist at Facebook, called OneUpMe.
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Jesse Eisenberg has become deeply involved with the city of Bloomington, Indiana, having shown support for Indiana University Bloomington and donating thousands of dollars to Bloomington's Middle Way House.
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Jesse Eisenberg lived in the city at one point during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jesse Eisenberg is a fan of the Indiana Pacers basketball team.
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Jesse Eisenberg is a long-time fan of the Indy Thunder beep baseball team and its founder Darnell Booker.
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Jesse Eisenberg is fond of cats and has been involved in fostering animals.
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Jesse Eisenberg has been associated with Farm Sanctuary and has presented at several of their galas.
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In September 2015, Jesse Eisenberg announced that from November, he would match donations made to Middle Way House, a domestic violence shelter in Bloomington, Indiana, up to $100,000 until April 3,2016.
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Jesse Eisenberg is a cast member with Theater of War, a performing arts non-profit that presents readings of Sophocles's Ajax and Philoctetes to military and civilian communities across the United States and Europe.
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Jesse Eisenberg participated in the inaugural "The 24 Hour Musicals: Los Angeles" on July 17,2017, at the United Artists Theater, Ace Hotel.
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Jesse Eisenberg composed the music and co-wrote, alongside his writing partner, Elizabeth Meriweather, Shoshana and Her Lovers, a musical about four lesbian sisters.
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Jesse Eisenberg was a special guest at the 2011 Urban Arts Partnership Prom, and was an Honorary Chair on the organisation's 25th Anniversary Gala Benefit Committee.
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Jesse Eisenberg was cast by brother-in-law Anthony Arnove, who along with Zinn edited Voices of a People's History of the United States.
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Jesse Eisenberg spoke at a rally in support of Democratic Illinois gubernatorial candidate Daniel Biss on March 10,2018, as well as at a meet and greet hosted by Reclaim Chicago and University of Chicago Student Action the day before, alongside State Representative Will Guzzardi.
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Jesse Eisenberg filmed two videos for the campaign, one for Biss's Facebook account and one for the Biss For Illinois YouTube platform.