Biography
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). ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025
as J. Daniel Atlas
The Four Horsemen return along with a new generation of illusionists performing mind-melding twists, turns, surprises, and magic unlike anything ever ...

Hell of a Summer
2025
Thanks
When 24-year-old Jason Hochberg arrives for counsellor weekend at his beloved Camp Pineway, his biggest problem is feeling out of touch with his teena...

Secret Mall Apartment
2025
Executive Producer
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far mor...

A Real Pain
2024
as David Kaplan
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's ol...

A Real Pain
2024
Director, Writer, Producer
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's ol...

I'll Be Right There
2024
Executive Producer
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.

Sasquatch Sunset
2024
as Young Male
In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ...

Sasquatch Sunset
2024
Producer
In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ...

Manodrome
2023
as Ralphie
Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his represse...
Thunder Rolls! The World of Blind Baseball
2023
as Narrator
How can individuals who are blind and visually impaired play baseball? This documentary tells the story of how this is possible. When the rules of a g...

When You Finish Saving the World
2023
Screenplay, Writer, Director
Evelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other. As Evelyn tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, Ziggy fumble...

Wild Indian
2021
as Jerry
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secr...

Wild Indian
2021
Executive Producer
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secr...

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Lex Luthor
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...

Resistance
2020
as Marcel
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans dur...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
as David Brewster
Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."

Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
as Columbus
Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the gro...

Vivarium
2019
as Tom
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, t...

Vivarium
2019
Executive Producer
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, t...

The Art of Self-Defense
2019
as Casey
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend h...

The Hummingbird Project
2019
as Vincent Zaleski
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.

The World Before Your Feet
2018
Executive Producer
For over 6 years, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every street in New York City – a total of more than 8000 miles. The World Before Your Feet tells t...

Justice League
2017
as Lex Luthor (uncredited)
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti...

Now You See Me 2
2016
as J. Daniel Atlas
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find them...

Café Society
2016
as Bobby Dorfman
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in t...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Lex Luthor
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...

DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
2016
as Self
A documentary special taking a look at the upcoming films making up the DC Universe. Kevin Smith hosts with Geoff Johns, as they take a look at Batman...

Louder Than Bombs
2015
as Jonah Reed
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad...

American Ultra
2015
as Mike Howell
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is ...

The End of the Tour
2015
as David Lipsky
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right af...

Night Moves
2014
as Josh Stamos
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric d...

The Double
2014
as Simon James / James Simon
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman ...

Rio 2
2014
as Blu (voice)
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit ...

Free Samples
2013
as Tex
A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day o...

Now You See Me
2013
as J. Daniel Atlas
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with...

He's Way More Famous Than You
2013
as Jesse Eisenberg
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that so...

Addicted to Fame
2012
as Eric Dobbs (archive footage)
A documentary that goes behind the scenes of the movie Illegal Aliens, and a filmmaker's journey from obscurity to moral blindness in the seductive gl...

Why Stop Now?
2012
as Eli
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.

To Rome with Love
2012
as Jack
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful in...

30 Minutes or Less
2011
as Nick Davis
Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and advise him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...

Rio
2011
as Blu (voice)
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his...

How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
2011
as Self / Mark Zuckerberg
This feature-length documentary about the making of "The Social Network" goes back and forth from the elements of storytelling and long rehearsals wit...

14 Actors Acting
2010
as Self
This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.

The Social Network
2010
as Mark Zuckerberg
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network k...

Camp Hell
2010
as Daniel
At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far fr...

Holy Rollers
2010
as Sam Gold
Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Lt. Fiske Hanley / Sgt. Benjamin McKinney
A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.

Zombieland
2009
as Columbus
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world over...

Solitary Man
2009
as Daniel Cheston
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Some Boys Don't Leave
2009
as The Boy
Some Boys Don't Leave is the story of what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. 'Boy' is forced to come to terms with the fact th...

Adventureland
2009
as James Brennan
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared ...

The Hunting Party
2007
as Benjamin
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling ou...

One Day Like Rain
2007
as Mark
A teenage girl living in California suburbia devises a metaphysical experiment designed to save the world from what she sees as an impending doom...bu...

The Living Wake
2007
as Mills
A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best an...

The Education of Charlie Banks
2007
as Charlie Banks
College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.

The Squid and the Whale
2005
as Walt Berkman
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing w...

Becoming a Werewolf
2005
as Jesse Eisenberg
A short mockumentary featuring actor Jesse Eisenberg as he deliberately gets bitten by a werewolf to give make-up effects artist Greg Nicotero referen...

Becoming a Werewolf
2005
Writer, Director
A short mockumentary featuring actor Jesse Eisenberg as he deliberately gets bitten by a werewolf to give make-up effects artist Greg Nicotero referen...

Cursed
2005
as Jimmy
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the cur...

The Village
2004
as Jamison
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alte...

The Emperor's Club
2002
as Louis Masoudi
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new stud...

Roger Dodger
2002
as Nick
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets ...

Lightning: Fire from the Sky
2001
as Eric Dobbs
Overwhelmed by a disastrous lightning storm that his son predicted, a man must learn to trust his son in order to save his family and the whole commun...

The Semplica Girl Diaries
N/A
Family man Lloyd Turner (Ayoade) is facing up to his 40th birthday with the prospect of a new decade mouldering in debt and mediocrity. After attendin...
Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy
N/A
A shy woman is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses ...
Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy
N/A
Director, Screenplay, Songs
A shy woman is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses ...