Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg is fond of cats and has been involved in fostering the animals.Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor. He made his screen debut with the comedy-drama television series Get Real from 1999 to 2000.

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor. He made his screen debut with the comedy-drama television series Get Real from 1999 to 2000.

Jesse Eisenberg was born in Queens, New York City, the son of Amy, who worked as a clown at children’s parties, and Barry Eisenberg, who ran a hospital and later became a college professor. He has two siblings, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, a former child actress, and Kerri. He was raised in a secular Jewish family that originated in Poland and Ukraine. Eisenberg grew up in Queens and East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.

Jesse Eisenberg struggled to fit in at school and began acting in plays at the age of ten, stating “when playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you’re given a prescribed way of behaving.” Eisenberg studied at The New School in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood.

Eisenberg’s first professional role was in Arje Shaw’s off-Broadway play, The Gathering. Eisenberg made his Broadway debut as an understudy in a 1996 revival of Summer and Smoke. He made his screen debut on the 1999 television series Get Real, which was canceled in 2000. After appearing in the made-for-television film Lightning: Fire from the Sky, he starred in the independent film Roger Dodger (for which he won an award at the San Diego film festival), and in The Emperor’s Club, both of which were released in 2002 to generally positive reviews.

In 2005, Eisenberg appeared in Cursed, a horror film directed by Wes Craven, and The Squid and the Whale, a well-reviewed independent drama also starring Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels. In 2007, he starred opposite Richard Gere and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party, a comic thriller in which he plays a young journalist in Bosnia.

Filmography

Awards

2002 – San Diego Film Festival Award for Most Promising New Actor
2005 – Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
2010 – Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
- Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year
- Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
- Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
- Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor