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Jesse Adam Eisenberg (/ˈaɪzənbɜːrɡ/ EYE-zən-burg; born October 5, 1983) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.

Eisenberg debuted on television with the short-lived comedy-drama  Get Real (1999–2000). Following his first leading role in the film Roger Dodger (2002), he starred in films such as The Squid and the Whale (2005), Adventureland(2009) and Zombieland (2009). He gained wider recognition for starring as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's film The Social Network (2010), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Eisenberg then starred in the Woody Allen films To Rome with Love (2012) and Café Society (2016), the heist films Now You See Me (2013) and its 2016 sequel, and independent dramas such as The Double (2013).

He portrayed Lex Luthor in the superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and had a lead voice role in the animated films Rio(2011) and Rio 2 (2014). In 2022, he starred in the FX / Hulu miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble. He made his film directorial debut with the black comedy When You Finish Saving the World. He has since directed, written, and starred in A Real Pain (2024), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Eisenberg has contributed pieces to  The New Yorker and McSweeney's websites. He has written and starred in three plays for the New York stage: Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils. He released his first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories in 2015.

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2025 Now You See Me: Now You Don't as J. Daniel Atlas

2025 Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy Director, Screenplay, Songs

2025 The Semplica Girl Diaries

2025 Secret Mall Apartment Executive Producer

2024 A Real Pain as David Kaplan Director, Writer, Producer

2024 I'll Be Right There Executive Producer

2024 Sasquatch Sunset as Young Male Producer

2023 Manodrome as Ralphie

2023 Thunder Rolls! The World of Blind Baseball as Narrator

2023 When You Finish Saving the World Screenplay, Writer, Director

2021 Wild Indian as Jerry Executive Producer

2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Lex Luthor

2020 Resistance as Marcel

2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as David Brewster

2019 Zombieland: Double Tap as Columbus

2019 Vivarium as Tom Executive Producer

2019 The Art of Self-Defense as Casey

2019 The Hummingbird Project as Vincent Zaleski

2018 The World Before Your Feet Executive Producer

2017 Justice League as Lex Luthor (uncredited)

2016 Now You See Me 2 as J. Daniel Atlas

2016 Café Society as Bobby Dorfman

2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Lex Luthor

2016 DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League as Self

2015 Louder Than Bombs as Jonah Reed

2015 American Ultra as Mike Howell

2015 The End of the Tour as David Lipsky

2014 Night Moves as Josh Stamos

2014 The Double as Simon James / James Simon

2014 Rio 2 as Blu (voice)

2013 Free Samples as Tex

2013 Now You See Me as J. Daniel Atlas

2013 He's Way More Famous Than You as Jesse Eisenberg

2012 Addicted to Fame as Eric Dobbs (archive footage)

2012 Why Stop Now? as Eli

2012 To Rome with Love as Jack

2011 30 Minutes or Less as Nick Davis

2011 Rio as Blu (voice)

2011 How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? as Self / Mark Zuckerberg

2010 14 Actors Acting as Self

2010 The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg

2010 Camp Hell as Daniel

2010 Holy Rollers as Sam Gold

2009 Beyond All Boundaries as Lt. Fiske Hanley / Sgt. Benjamin McKinney

2009 Zombieland as Columbus

2009 Solitary Man as Daniel Cheston

2009 Some Boys Don't Leave as The Boy

2009 Adventureland as James Brennan

2007 The Hunting Party as Benjamin

2007 One Day Like Rain as Mark

2007 The Living Wake as Mills

2007 The Education of Charlie Banks as Charlie Banks

2005 The Squid and the Whale as Walt Berkman

2005 Becoming a Werewolf as Jesse Eisenberg Writer, Director

2005 Cursed as Jimmy

2004 The Village as Jamison

2002 The Emperor's Club as Louis Masoudi

2002 Roger Dodger as Nick

2001 Lightning: Fire from the Sky as Eric Dobbs

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