October 5: Happy Birthday Jesse Eisenberg
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 09:19 AM)
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When he began acting,
Jesse Eisenberg
, who turns 33 today, was probably less famous than his younger sister Hallie, the Pepsi Girl. Thats no longer the case, as in the last 7-8 years he has emerged as a major star. After a regular role in the short-lived series Get Real, Eisenberg made his film debut in 2002 in Roger Dodger, and went on to significant roles in films like The Squid and the Whale and The Education of Charlie Banks. His breakthrough came in 2009, when he had a lead role in the years surprise hit, an action comedy that is sometimes misclassified as a horror film:
The same year as Zombieland, Eisenberg also starred in the similarly-titled, but very different, Adventureland, the first of his three screen pairings with Kristen Stewart. He had a big 2010, appearing in 4 features and receiving Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor for The Social Network. Since then he has starred in the two Now You See Me caper films, made two films with Woody Allen (To Rome with Love and Cafe Society), voiced the character of Blu in the two Rio films, and re-teamed with Kristen Stewart for American Ultra and the aforementioned Cafe Society. And hes now Lex Luthor in the DC Universe.
Eisenberg is also a talented writer, with several stories published in The New Yorker. He has written a number of plays, several of which have had Off-Broadway productions and one which has been performed on Londons West End.