Jake Johnson (born Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger; May 28, 1978) is an
American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Nick Miller in
the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011â€"18), for which he was nominated for
the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series
in 2013, and as the older Peter B. Parker/Spider-Man in the animated
film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). He also starred in
Let's Be Cops (2014), and appeared in Paper Heart (2009), Get Him to
the Greek (2010), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), 21 Jump Street (2012),
Drinking Buddies (2013), Jurassic World (2015), The Mummy (2017) and
Tag (2018). He co-starred as Greyson "Grey" McConnell in the ABC drama
series Stumptown (2019-20).Johnson was born in Evanston, Illinois, a
northern suburb of Chicago, the son of Eve Johnson, an artist who made
stained glass windows, and Ken Weinberger, who owned a car dealership.
He was named after his maternal uncle, Mark Johnson, who died at the
age of 26 in a motorcycle accident in 1977, a year before Jake was
born. Jake's father is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, while his
mother's ancestry is English, Irish, and Polish Catholic. Johnson
attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. His parents divorced
when he was two, and he and his older siblings, brother Dan and sister
Rachel, were raised by his single mother. Johnson then took his
mother's last name during high school. Johnson has stated that when he
was 17, his father resurfaced and now they are close.Johnson grew up a
fan of the Second City improv troupe. Raised in Wilmette, he graduated
from New Trier High School in Winnetka and started his post-secondary
education at the University of Iowa. While in Iowa City, he wrote a
play, which wound up earning him admission to the Dramatic Writing
Department at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, followed by the 2002
John Golden Playwriting Prize and the Sloan Fellowship for
Screenwriting. The New York City off-Broadway group, The Ensemble
Studio Theater, produced his play Cousins.
American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Nick Miller in
the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011â€"18), for which he was nominated for
the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series
in 2013, and as the older Peter B. Parker/Spider-Man in the animated
film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). He also starred in
Let's Be Cops (2014), and appeared in Paper Heart (2009), Get Him to
the Greek (2010), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), 21 Jump Street (2012),
Drinking Buddies (2013), Jurassic World (2015), The Mummy (2017) and
Tag (2018). He co-starred as Greyson "Grey" McConnell in the ABC drama
series Stumptown (2019-20).Johnson was born in Evanston, Illinois, a
northern suburb of Chicago, the son of Eve Johnson, an artist who made
stained glass windows, and Ken Weinberger, who owned a car dealership.
He was named after his maternal uncle, Mark Johnson, who died at the
age of 26 in a motorcycle accident in 1977, a year before Jake was
born. Jake's father is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, while his
mother's ancestry is English, Irish, and Polish Catholic. Johnson
attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. His parents divorced
when he was two, and he and his older siblings, brother Dan and sister
Rachel, were raised by his single mother. Johnson then took his
mother's last name during high school. Johnson has stated that when he
was 17, his father resurfaced and now they are close.Johnson grew up a
fan of the Second City improv troupe. Raised in Wilmette, he graduated
from New Trier High School in Winnetka and started his post-secondary
education at the University of Iowa. While in Iowa City, he wrote a
play, which wound up earning him admission to the Dramatic Writing
Department at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, followed by the 2002
John Golden Playwriting Prize and the Sloan Fellowship for
Screenwriting. The New York City off-Broadway group, The Ensemble
Studio Theater, produced his play Cousins.
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