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Emile Hirsch Profile |
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Birth Date: March 13, 1985
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Birth Place: Palms, California, USA
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Birth Name: Emile Davenport Hirsch
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985) is an American
television and film actor. He began performing in the late
1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and
became known as a film actor after roles in The Emperor's
Club, The Girl Next Door, and Alpha Dog, among others.
Hirsch is slated to appear in several upcoming films,
including Into the Wild.
Hirsch was born in Topanga, California to David Hirsch, an
industrial consultant, and Margaret Davenport, a pop-up book
artist; his parents are now divorced and he lives with his
father. He has an older sister, Jenny, who is also an
actress. Hirsch attended Paul Revere Middle School and the
Academy of Music at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los
Angeles; he is good friends with actor Andrew Keegan.
Hirsch began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in many
minor roles on television shows or made-for-television
films, including Kindred: the Embraced, 3rd Rock from the
Sun, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and NYPD Blue. He made his
film debut with the 2002 drama, The Dangerous Lives of Altar
Boys, where he starred opposite Kieran Culkin in the story
of two Catholic school boys. His next role was in the prep
school drama, The Emperor's Club, which was released later
in 2002. Both films received generally positive reviews, but
performed only moderately at the box office.
Hirsch was subsequently cast opposite Elisha Cuthbert in the
2004 teen comedy, The Girl Next Door, and as a result gained
renown among teenage audiences. The Mudge Boy, an
independent film that he had starred in before making Girl
Next Door, was given a limited release in the summer of
2004. Hirsch next appeared in Imaginary Heroes, a drama
about a dysfunctional family, which received a limited
release in February 2005 but failed to reach a wider
audience, despite mostly positive reviews.
In 2005, Hirsch starred in Lords of Dogtown; the film, about
a number of well-known skaters of the 1970s, was released on
June 3, 2005, but it ultimately performed poorly at the box
office. He subsequently appeared in Alpha Dog, a dark drama
in which he played a character based on real-life drug
dealer Jesse James Hollywood; the film was shot in 2004 and
released on January 12, 2007. Hirsch consulted with Jesse
James Hollywood's real life father before playing the role,
and has said that he felt "pretty afraid in my bones most of
the time" while filming because of the film's raw characters
and dialogue.
Hirsch will next play adventurer Christopher McCandless in
the Sean Penn-directed drama Into the Wild.
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Other Information |
He grew up in Los Angeles, California and Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
His father, David Hirsch, is a manager/producer and his
mother, Margaret Davenport, is an artist/teacher.
Good friends with Andrew Keegan.
Favorite movies include, Roger Dodger (2002), On the
Waterfront (1954), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The
Usual Suspects (1995) and The Mosquito Coast (1986).
He attended the The Hamilton Academy of Music and The
Performing Arts in Los Angeles.
His sister, Jennifer Bolduc, is an artist/mother and is
married to Samuel Bolduc, a composer/teacher. |
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