David Julian Hirsh

David Julian Hirsh is an actor who was born and raised in Montreal. He studied at McGill and criminology at the University of Toronto, leaving one credit short of his degree to train at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. His stage work included Broadway and Off Broadway productions. In Canada he became known for the title part of Dr. Josh Gould in Naked Josh (2004), a professor he played across three seasons. He played Jake Hersh in St. Urbain's Horseman (2007), the adaptation of Mordechai Richler's novel, and in 2006 he earned a Canadian Gemini Award for producing Camp Hollywood (2004). On television he later appeared as Ray Stein in Hawthorne (2009) and as Rabbi Dave on Weeds, with guest work on Touch and House of Lies, along with appearances on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Flashpoint (2008), CSI: NY (2004) and Ghost Whisperer (2005). He starred in The Surrogacy Trap (2013) with Mia Kirshner.