Emile Hirsch
Birthdate: March 13, 1985 (41 Years Old)
Birthplace: Palms, California, USA
Emile Hirsch (birthname: Emile Davenport Hirsch) has had the enviable acting career involving collaborations with several important filmmakers, from Ang Lee and Gus Van Sant to Sean Penn, launching his feature filmography as co-lead in the comedy-drama The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), with Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster (who also produced) and Vincent D’Onofrio under Peter Care’s direction and based on Chris Fuhrman’s 1994 novel, and released by THINK film.
Hirsch was cast for the ensemble of the Michael Hoffman-directed prep school drama released by Universal Pictures, The Emperor’s Club (2002), starring Kevin Kline, Steven Culp, Embeth Davidtz, Patrick Dempsey, Edward Herrmann, Rob Morrow, and Harris Yulin. Then Hirsch took the lead role opposite Elisha Cuthbert in 20th Century Fox’s The Girl Next Door (2004), alongside Timothy Olyphant and Paul Dano, under the direction of Luke Greenfield.
Hirsch continued being cast in starry casts with director/writer Dan Harris’s drama released by Sony Pictures Classics, Imaginary Heroes (2004), co-starring Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams and Deirdre O’Connell, followed by Hirsch landing a plum role as the lead in director/writer Catherine Hardwicke’s drama, Lords of Dogtown (2005), based on Stacy Peralta’s autobiographical screenplay, with Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Heath Ledger, Rebecca De Mornay and Johnny Knoxville, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing via Columbia/TriStar Pictures. Hirsch, as co-star, portrayed notorious drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood in director/writer Nick Cassavetes’ crime drama for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Universal Pictures, Alpha Dog (2006), co-starring Ben Foster, Shawn Hatosy, Christopher Marquette, Sharon Stone, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, and Bruce Willis, and then Hirsch starred in another role carved from real life in director/writer/producer Sean Penn’s adventure drama, Into the Wild (2007), based on Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction account of adventurer Chrsitopher McCandless, co-starring Marcia Gay Harden, Williams Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Stewart and Hal Holbrook Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actor).
Emile Hirsch took on the title role of directors/writers The Wachowskis’ live-action version of the Tatsuo Yoshida anime series, produced by Joel Silver with distributor Warner Bros. Pictures, Speed Racer (2008), with Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Richard Roundtree, followed by Hirscportrays another true-life character—gay rights activist Cleve Jones—in director Gus Van Sant’s acclaimed biopic, Milk (2008), written by Oscar-winning Dustin Lance Black and starring Oscar-winning Best Actor Sean Penn, with Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, and James Franco.
Hirsch joined the ensemble of director/producer Ang Lee’s commercially failed Taking Woodstock (2009), based on Elliot Tiber’s and Tom Monte’s memoir, distributed by Focus Features, and co-starring Demetri Martin, Paul Dano, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber, and then Hirsch had another starring role under a major filmmaker in director William Friedkin’s version of Tracy Letts’ adaptation of his 1993 play, Killer Joe (2011), starring Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church, and released by LD Entertainment.
Hirsch continued his stellar run with important filmmakers as co-star of director/co-writer Oliver Stone’s version of co-writer Don Winslow’s novel, Savages (2012), co-starring Benicio del Toro, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek and John Travolta, distributed by Universal Pictures, followed by Hirsch co-starring with Penelope Cruz in director/co-writer/producer/actor Sergio Castellitto’s Italian film, Venuto al Mondo/Twice Born (2012), with Adnan Haskovic and Jane Birkin, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
Hirsch co-starred with Paul Rudd in director David Gordon Green’s comedy-drama released by Magnolia Pictures, Prince Avalanche (2013), which earned Green the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, and then Hirsch co-starred with Dakota Fanning and Stephen Dorff in directors/producers Alan and Gabriel Polsky’s drama via distributor Random Media, The Motel Life (2013), based on Willy Vlautin’s novel.
Emile Hirsch co-starred in director/writer/producer Peter Berg’s war drama for Universal Pictures, Lone Survivor (2013), based on Marcus Luttrell’s and Patrick Robinson’s account of botched SEAL op in Afghanistan, starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana, and then after a few minor movies, Hirsch switched acting gears by joining Aubrey Plaza as co-star in director/co-writer Jim Hosking’s black comedy, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2017), with Jemaine Clement and Craig Robinson, released by The Film Arcade after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hirsch was cast by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in yet another true-life role as Jay Sebring in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), backed primarily by Columbia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern and Al Pacino, and then Hirsch starred or co-starred in a range of movies from Never Grow Old (2019), Son (2021, for which he was also an executive producer), to The Immaculate Room (2022), The Price We Pay (2022) and Walden (2023, also an executive producer).
Hirsch starred as Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Joseph Bau in the biopic, Bau: Artist at War (2024), co-starring Inbar Lavi, Yan Tual, and Adam Tsekhman under Sean McNamara’s direction, co-written by Ronald Bass, Deborah Smerecni, and Sonia Kifferstein, and released in a limited pattern by Falling Forward Films.
Personal life
Emile Hirsch was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Palms and Santa Fe, New Mexico, by his parents Margaret (visual artist/teacher/book designer) and David (film producer/entrepreneur). Hirsch has an older sister, Jennifer. Hirsch attended and graduated from Hamilton High School, where he had a focus on music. Hirsch has a boy named Valor, born in 2013, with a woman he dated with whom he’s no longer in a relationship. Hirsch’s height is 5’ 7”. Hirsch’s estimated net worth is $6 million.
Emile Hirsch Movies
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- 2024 |
- 2021 |
Midnight in the Switchgrass
asByron Crawford
An FBI agent and Florida State officer team up to investigate a string of unsolved murder cases.
- 2021 |
- 2019 |
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
asJay Sebring
As Hollywood's Golden Age is winding down during the summer of 1969, television actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth endeavor to achieve lasting success in Hollywood while meeting several colorful characters along the way.
- 2019 |
- 2018 |
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
asShane Danger
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worst when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only."
- -- | as James Moore
- -- | Lone Survivoras Danny Dietz
- -- | The Darkest Houras Sean
Facts About Emile Hirsch
Musician: Emile Hirsch is also a recording artist, having released two albums, Mnemonic (2019) and Denihilism (2021), with songs landing on Spotify’s New Alt list.
AKA: Hirsch’s nickname is “Hirschy.”
Benefit: Emile Hirsch climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2010 as a benefit project, Summit on the Summit, to raise awareness of the global clean water crisis.
