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Jeremy Piven Biography

The actor Jeremy Piven was born in 1965 in New York City, but grew up in a suburb of Chicago. Raised by parents who were also actors and drama teachers, Piven developed a love of acting while still a teenager, and attended theater camp while finishing high school, often taking on major roles in the camp’s productions. After graduating from Drake University with a degree in theater, Jeremy accepted roles in a number of films, including Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), White Palace (1990), and Singles (1992), before landing a pivotal role on The Larry Sanders Show in 1992. The breakout role was just the beginning for his career.

Throughout the 1990’s, Jeremy Piven appeared in a number of successful films, including Car 54, Where Are You? (1994), Heat (1995), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Kiss the Girls (1997), Very Bad Things (1998), The Family Man (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Serendipity (2001), and Old School (2003), as well as sitcoms such as Ellen, Will and Grace, and The Drew Carey Show. In 2004, Piven garnered a key role as Ari Gold in the series Entourage, which earned him three Emmys and a Golden Globe and became the role for which he still best known to this day. During his time on Entourage, Jeremy continued to appear in films, including Chasing Liberty (2004), The Kingdom (2007), RocknRolla (2008), I Melt With You (2011), and So Undercover (2012.)

Most recently, Jeremy Piven appeared as the title character in the television drama Mr. Selfridge, appearing on PBS. He continues to act and is slated to appear in at least one film coming soon, in 2014