Jesse Eisenberg
Biography
Jesse Eisenberg, an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker, was born in Queens and raised in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He began acting on television in Get Real and had his first leading film role in Roger Dodger (2002). He became associated with clever, socially uneasy characters in comedies and dramas, including The Squid and the Whale (2005), Adventureland (2009), and Zombieland (2009). His breakthrough came as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010), which brought an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He went on to appear in To Rome with Love (2012), Now You See Me (2013), Café Society (2016), and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and he voiced Blu in Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014). Eisenberg wrote and acted in the plays Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils, and he directed, wrote, and starred in A Real Pain (2024), which won him a BAFTA for its screenplay and an Academy Award nomination in that category.
43years old
Turns 44 on October 5in 357 days
- Born Queens
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 41
- Career span
- 25 years2001 to 2026
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First role
At age 16, Eisenberg took his first professional role. He appeared in The Gathering, an off-Broadway play written by Arje Shaw.
First role
At 12, Eisenberg served as an understudy in a 1996 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. The next year, at 13, he understudied Young Scrooge in a musical A Christmas Carol that featured Tony Randall.
Big break
Eisenberg's breakthrough role in Roger Dodger came during his senior year of high school and kept him from enrolling at New York University.
Big break
David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin cast Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network after seeing his audition tape, even though Eisenberg felt anxious about the audition.
Behind the camera
Eisenberg's first play, Asuncion, opened Off-Broadway in October 2011 at Cherry Lane Theatre, staged by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He acted in it too, with Kip Fagan directing.
Jesse Eisenberg movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Ruben Fleischer directed four of these films, Zack Snyder two and Carlos Saldanha two. Woody Harrelson appears in five of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Woody Harrelson's page
Morgan Freeman's page
Kristen Stewart's page
Imogen Poots's page
Dave Franco's page
Gabriel Millman's page
Ruben FleischerDirector, 4 films, 2009 to 2025
All films by Ruben Fleischer
All films by Zack Snyder
Box office
What Jesse Eisenberg's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$4.3 billion
34 of the 41 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 41 films: 34 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 3 figure not found.
- 34Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 3Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 83% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$874M20.3% of the total
- 2$519M12.0% of the total
- 3$499M11.6% of the total
- 4$484M11.2% of the total
- 5$352M8.2% of the total
- 6$335M7.8% of the total
- 7$257M6.0% of the total
- 8$244M5.7% of the total
$748 millionfrom the other 26 films with a worldwide figure, 17% of the total
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