Emile Hirsch
Emile Davenport Hirsch is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Chris McCandless in Into the Wild. Other roles of his are in films such as The Girl Next Door, Lords of Dogtown, Speed Racer, Milk, Lone Survivor, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Early life
Hirsch is of German Jewish, English, and Scots-Irish ancestry; he was born in the Palms section of Los Angeles. His mother, Margaret Esther, is a visual artist, teacher, and pop-up books designer, and his father, David Milton Hirsch, is an entrepreneur, manager, and producer. He has an older sister, Jennifer, and was raised in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lived with his mother for several years.Career
Hirsch began acting on television roles in the late 1990s. He starred in the Showtime original film Wild Iris, with Laura Linney and Gena Rowlands. He made his film debut in Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and next acted with Kevin Kline in The Emperor's Club.In 2004, Hirsch starred in The Girl Next Door. He starred with Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver in the limited release Imaginary Heroes.
In 2005, Hirsch starred in Catherine Hardwicke's film Lords of Dogtown about a group of skaters in the 1970s and their role in the birth of skateboard culture. Hirsch played Jay Adams. He played a character based on a real-life drug dealer, Jesse James Hollywood, in Alpha Dog.
Hirsch played Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild. He lost 40 pounds for the role, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild nomination for best actor. Esquire said, " creates a vivid, unforgettable character you at once admire and pity."
Hirsch had the title role in Lilly and Lana Wachowski's Speed Racer, which was released on May 9, 2008 and was a box office bomb. Hirsch played gay-rights activist Cleve Jones in Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk. He also appeared in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, based on a screenplay of the Elliot Tiber memoir Taking Woodstock. He then starred in the box-office disappointment Killer Joe.
In April 2011, he was cast in Oliver Stone's Savages, which was released in July 2012.
In 2012, Hirsch starred with Penélope Cruz in Venuto al Mondo, a film by Italian director Sergio Castellitto. In 2013, he was in Prince Avalanche, co-starring Paul Rudd.
Hirsch also starred in The Motel Life, co-starring Dakota Fanning and Stephen Dorff, directed by the Polsky brothers. In fall 2013, he starred with Holliday Grainger, Holly Hunter, and William Hurt in the miniseries Bonnie & Clyde.
Also in 2013, Hirsch co-starred in the film Lone Survivor, based on the memoir of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell.
On February 8, 2017, it was announced that Hirsch would star with Aubrey Plaza in the comedy An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn.
On May 25, 2018, Hirsch becomes the new voice for character James Lake Jr. in the Netflix original DreamWorks show Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia from Guillermo del Toro, replacing Anton Yelchin in its third season following his death in 2016. Hirsch is set to reprise his role in 3 Below and Wizards.
Music
On October 25th, 2019, Hirsch released his first album under Hirsch called Mnemonic. Two of its songs, Tooth Fairy and Angels Will, were selected to be on the New Alt playlist on Spotify. Kroq DJ Megan Holiday also picked Mnemonic as one of her favorite albums of the year. After Mnemonics release, Hirsch released singles "American Dreamin",' and on 2/14 will release new single "Casual Animal."Hirsch has recently released five singles, "Remember Days When," and "Hard Hearts". He released Prisoners on 03/27/20 & "The Same Different" on 04/03/20, and then "Favors" on 05/08/20. Both "Prisoners" and "Favors" were both put on Spotify's New Noise Playlist. "Favors" was also put on multiple playlists on Deezer, including #3 placement on "Seleccíon Editorial Mexico y Central America," one of Deezer's biggest playlists worldwide, with 6.7 million followers.
Personal life
Emile Hirsch resides in Los Angeles.In 2008, he travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo along with four young activists and kept a journal of his five-day trip. Reflecting on his trip, Hirsch said, "Now I look back at some of the earlier parts of this travelogue and almost chuckle at my naïveté. Maybe we can all come together to change the world."
On October 27, 2013, Hirsch's first child was born, a boy named Valor. The child's mother is a woman Hirsch dated; however, they are no longer in a relationship.
Assault conviction
On February 12, 2015, Hirsch was charged with aggravated assault after attacking and choking Paramount Pictures executive Daniele Bernfeld on January 25, 2015, at Tao Nightclub in Park City, Utah. On August 17, 2015, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to 15 days in jail. He was also fined $4,750, received 90 days of probation, and ordered to undergo 50 hours of community service. Hirsch entered a rehab facility following the assault.Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | Wild Iris | Lonnie Brevard | |
| 2002 | ' | Francis Doyle | |
| 2002 | ' | Sedgewick Bell | Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor |
| 2003 | ' | Duncan Mudge | |
| 2004 | ' | Matthew Kidman | Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss |
| 2004 | Imaginary Heroes | Tim Travis | |
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Jay Adams | Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Actor |
| 2006 | Alpha Dog | Johnny Truelove | |
| 2007 | ' | Tony | |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Chris McCandless | National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Male Performance Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated – Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated – Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Drama Movie Actor |
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Speed Racer | Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Action Movie Actor |
| 2008 | Milk | Cleve Jones | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock | Billy | |
| 2009 | ' | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2011 | Killer Joe | Chris Smith | |
| 2011 | The Darkest Hour | Sean | |
| 2012 | Savages | Spin | |
| 2012 | Venuto al mondo - Twice Born | Diego | |
| 2012 | The Motel Life | Frank Flannigan | |
| 2013 | Prince Avalanche | Lance | |
| 2013 | Lone Survivor | Danny Dietz | |
| 2015 | Ten Thousand Saints | Johnny | |
| 2015 | Just Jim | Dean | |
| 2016 | Vincent N Roxxy | Vincent | |
| 2016 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Austin Tilden | |
| 2017 | All Nighter | Martin | |
| 2017 | I Am Heath Ledger | Himself | Documentary |
| 2017 | The Chinese Widow | Jack | |
| 2018 | An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | Shane Danger | |
| 2018 | The Outsider | Paulie Bowers | |
| 2018 | Freaks | Henry Lewis | |
| 2019 | Never Grow Old | Patrick Tate | |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Jay Sebring | |
| 2019 | Peel | Peel Munter | |
| 2020 | Force of Nature | Cardillo | |
| 2020 | The Comeback Trail | James Moore | Post-production |
| 2021 | Luca | Luca | Voice in development |
| TBA | Midnight in the Switchgrass | Byron Crawford | Filming |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | ' | Abel | Episode: "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 1997 | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Punk | Episode: "Scaredy Dick" |
| 1997 | Early Edition | Lance Foster | Episode: "March in Time" |
| 1998 | Players | Adam Paprelli | Episode: "Con-Vivants" |
| 1998 | Gargantua | Brandon Elway | Television film |
| 1998 | Houdini | Young Harry Houdini | Television film |
| 1999 | Two of a Kind | Jeremy | Episode: "Let's Dance" |
| 1999 | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Darryl | Episode: "Sabrina, the Matchmaker" |
| 1999 | Promised Land | Walter Elliott | Episode: "A Day in the Life" |
| 1999 | The Pretender | Bryce Banks | Episode: "End Game" |
| 1999 | Profiler | Bryce Banks | Episode: "Grand Master" |
| 1999 | NYPD Blue | Marcello Parisi | Episode: "Voir Dire This" |
| 1999 | ER | Chad Kottmeier | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Wild Iris | Lonnie Bravard | Television film |
| 2013 | Bonnie & Clyde | Clyde Barrow | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Trollhunters | Jim Lake Jr. | 11 episodes |
| 2018–2019 | ' | Jim Lake Jr. | 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Robot Chicken | Nick Jonas, Ron Weasley | Episode: "Petless M in: Cars Are Couches On The Road" |