Jake Epstein
Jake Epstein
Jake Epstein is a Canadian actor and singer who played Craig Manning, a bipolar musician, on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He also played Will in the First National Tour of American Idiot and created the role of Gerry Goffin in the Broadway production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 January 1987
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
school theatre canada
I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
halloween reading men
I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.
school play toronto
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
musician extended-family huge
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
believe character men
What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.
spiritual kids thinking
I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.
falling-in-love teenager ordinary
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
hamlet kinds longer love possible realized roles written
The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.
flattering kids literally shoot
The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein.