Jake Weber Biography
Summary
"Jake Weber" (born March 19, 1964) is a British actor.
Weber was born in London, England and attended Middlebury in Vermont, where he majored in English Literature and Political Science, graduating cum laude with a BA. He attended the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1991, and also studied at Russia's famed Moscow Art Theatre. He sang in Middlebury College's Dissipated Eight.
Weber's break-out role in the US came in 1993, as a lawyer informant in the thriller "The Pelican Brief" with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
Weber has appeared in several films and has made several television appearances on shows such as "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "NYPD Blue", "American Gothic" and "Law & Order". But it is his role as the supportive husband of Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) in NBC's "Medium" for which he is best known. In real life, Weber and girlfriend, Elizabeth Carey, have a son named Waylon born in 2006.
As a boy, Weber was present at the Rolling Stones' recording sessions for the album 'Exile on Main Street' in the summer of 1971. His father, Tommy Weber, was an associate of Keith Richards, who hosted the gathering/recording at Nellcote at his then-residence along the southern coast of France.
Filmography
"Medium" (2005) - Joe Dubois
"Haven" (2004) - Officer Powell
"Dawn of the Dead" (2004) - Michael
"100 Mile Rule" (2002) - Bobby
"The Mind of the Married Man" (2001 - 2002) - Jake Berman
"Wendigo" (2001) - George
"The Cell" (2000) - FBI Special Agent Gordon Ramsey
"U-571" (2000) - Lt. Hirsch, USNR
"Pushing Tin" (1999) - Barry Plotkin
"Meet Joe Black" (1998) - Drew
"Dangerous Beauty" (1998) - King Henri III
"Into My Heart" (1998) - Adam
"What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) - Tolliver Tynan
"American Gothic (1995-1996) - Dr. Matt Crower
"The Pelican Brief" (1993) - Curtis Morgan (aka Garcia)
"Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) - Donna's boyfriend
Credit
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