Jesse Eisenberg

Born on October 5, 1983 in the New York neighborhood of Queens, Jesse Adam Eisenberg comes from a Jewish family. His parents – a teacher and a professional clown – were determined that his children would succeed in show business, and they presented young Jesse to casting calls, who made his Broadway debut at the age of 13. His little sister, Hallie Kate, 9 years younger than Jesse, also made a career, who made her film debut with Paulie the Big-mouthed Parrot , has appeared in titles such as The Bicentennial Man , and became a regular contributor to the popular Jay Leno program. .

For his part, Jesse decided to enroll in Anthropology at New York University. “The way other cultures think, the emotional part of people’s lives… Anthropology has taught me more about what I do in a way that is more interesting to me.” Although he has continued studying the race, he soon decided to leave the university in the background, focus on his acting career and enroll in The New School, a New York acting school.

After some roles in the Family Matters series and the TV movie Electric Storm , he made his debut on the big screen in 2002, with a leading role in Men’s Things , where he was a teenager from a small town, who goes to Manhattan to visit his uncle. , a cynical and seductive copywriter, played by Campbell Scott . He played a happy-go-lucky student of Kevin Kline in The Emperors Club , a son of a marriage about to divorce in A Brooklyn Story, a boy who discovers he has superhuman abilities after being in an accident with his sister ( Christina Ricci ) . , in The Curse (Cursed), and a rookie correspondent on The Hunter’s Shadow .

Although Adventureland , the romantic comedy for teenagers starring him, did not have the expected success, he succeeded as a young expert in escaping from the zombies, in Welcome to Zombieland .

But Jesse Eisenberg has fully established himself after playing Mark Zuckerberg, the young and introverted nerd who hides a true genius and who ended up becoming a millionaire when he founded Facebook, in The Social Network . His work has not left anyone indifferent, not even Zuckerberg himself. “Shortly after the premiere, Mark Zuckerberg rented a theater in California and went with the Facebook employees to see the movie. My cousin works with him and, when the screening ended, he asked him what he thought of The Social Network … He replied that I had done a good job”. At the moment, he has been nominated for a Golden Globe for this work and it is rumored that he may drop the Oscar nomination.

The success of the film, directed by David Fincher , has catapulted him to the top. She just starred in the comedy 30 Minutes or Less , and she has a bright future ahead of her.