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Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker. Recognized for playing smart but socially awkward characters in both comedies and dramas, his accolades include a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, and three Golden Globes.
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entertainment · American actor, playwright, and filmmaker (born 1983) · voice actor · film actor · television actor · stage actor · actor · screenwriter · film director · dub actor · playwright · musician · also Jesse Eisenberg, Eisenberg
Born 5 October 1983 · Q219512
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“While we were filming this movie in Poland, and I was walking the streets and starting to get a little more comfortable in the country, something so obvious occurred to me, which is that my family had lived in this place for far longer than we lived in New York.”
Hoodline: Jesse Eisenberg Wins $250,000 on Millionaire for Bloomington Shelter
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Variety: San Sebastian Adds Jesse Eisenberg, Fred Cavayé, Amanda Kernell Films to Golden Shell Race
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Public attention spiked: 9,987 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 3,261, with 1 article edits.
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Eisenberg made an altruistic kidney donation to a stranger at NYU Langone Health after being inspired by the philosophy of effective altruism
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The Guardian: ‘I’m so excited’: Jesse Eisenberg is donating a kidney to a stranger
The Guardian: ‘A collective sigh of relief’: how Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain went down in Poland
By the President of Poland Andrzej Duda in New York
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The Guardian: Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg
The Guardian: ‘Every day is 24 hours of panic to just get out the door’: Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy
Starred in the FX / Hulu miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble and made his film directorial debut with the black comedy When You Finish Saving the World
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With production by The New Group, marking his second collaboration with the company
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Eisenberg starred in the sequel Zombieland: Double Tap, directed by Ruben Fleischer
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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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And the film had its world premiere in 2019
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At the United Artists Theater, Ace Hotel
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Eisenberg, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Capaldi, Douglas Booth, Neil Gaiman, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Kit Harington, and Stanley Tucci were featured in a video from the United Nations' refugee agency
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Eisenberg's play The Spoils began a run at London's Trafalgar Studios in the West End, with Scott Elliott returning to direct
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Eisenberg released his first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, a collection of short humor pieces
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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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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 heis
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Starred alongside Melissa Leo in Why Stop Now, a drama about a drug addict mother (Leo) and her piano prodigy son (Eisenberg), and in the magical realist romantic comedy To Rome with Love, directed by Woody Allen
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Eisenberg hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC, with musical guest Nicki Minaj
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Starred in the box-office animated hit Rio, as the main character Blu, a metropolitan, domesticated male Spix's macaw who learns how to fly
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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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Portrayed Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network, for which he earned the Best Actor Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and nominations for Best Actor at the BAFTA Awa
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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, Pen
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In 2007, Eisenberg started an online wordplay website with his cousin, a social design evangelist at Facebook, called OneUpMe.
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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 also cast in the indie comic-drama Holy Rollers alongside
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Earned about $3,000, and logged only a few minutes of total screen time
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Eisenberg started an online wordplay website with his cousin, a social design evangelist at Facebook, called OneUpMe
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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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Appeared in a UK Dr Pepper commercial as "Butt Naked Boy
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Born 1983-10-05.
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“The Problem is Civil Obedience”
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