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
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.
I'm acting with the best actors in the world.
I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
But there are other roles that people have not seen me do that I have done on the stage.
I'm a musician who's at the end of his rope who's been addicted to coke for a while,
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
I'm attracted to flawed characters, ... They're fun and interesting to play and the rest comes from that.
I had never really been around cards.