Jake Johnson Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jake Johnson Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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.
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