Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards, and as Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen. He is currently starring in the British period drama Mr Selfridge, which tells the story of the man who created the luxury English department store chain Selfridges...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 July 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
Everyone's journey is completely different.
For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.