Next upward, Hirsch will impersonate John Belushi in the long expected untitled Belushi biopic. Hirsch was then in the 2004 teen comedy, The Girl Next Door, and consequently got outstanding mainstream reviews and greater acknowledgement among adolescent audiences. The Mudge Boy, a movie where he’d starred before making The Girl Next Door, premiered in the summer of 2004. Hirsch next appeared with Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver in Imaginary Heroes, a play of a dysfunctional family, that has been released in February 2005. Afterwards, in 2005, Hirsch starred with Heath Ledger in Lords of Dogtown, a cult favorite by director Catherine Hardwicke; the movie, about several well known skaters of the 1970s and their part in the arrival of a higher-profile skateboard culture, was launched on June 3, 2005. Hirsch played Jay Adams (who some say was the first “Z Boy”), and was commended by critics for his performance. It was this performance that got Sean Penn’s focus; he’d afterwards cast Hirsch in the feature film Into The Wild. Hirsch consulted with Hollywood’s real life dad before playing the part. Hirsch next played adventurer Christopher McCandless in Sean Penn’s critically acclaimed adventure-play Into the Wild, released on September 21, 2007. He lost 40 pounds for the part and was noticed in reviews as a possible Academy Award nominee for the movie, also receiving a Screen Actors Guild nomination for the best actor. Hirsch had the title role in the Andy & Larry Wachowski’s follow around The Matrix Trilogy in Speed Racer, that was released on May 9, 2008.
Paul Revere Charter Middle School, Alexander Hamilton High School Academy of Music
Nationality
United States of America
Children
Valor Hirsch
Parents
David Hirsch, Margaret Davenport
Siblings
Jennifer Bolduc
Nicknames
Emile Davenport Hirsch , Hirschy
Awards
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominations
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor:...
Movies
Into the Wild, Lone Survivor, The Girl Next Door, Lords of Dogtown, Speed Racer, Twice Born, Alpha Dog, Killer Joe, Prince Avalanche, The Darkest Hour, Milk, The Motel Life, Taking Woodstock, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Savages, The Emperor's Club, Imaginary Heroes, The Mudge Boy, Ten Thousan...
Star Sign
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Often plays characters who find themselves in life threatening situations
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[on Penelope Cruz] She's hilarious. She's not only very smart and talented, she has a ridiculously absurdest and sophisticated sense of humor. We were constantly laughing and enjoying ourselves on set.
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James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.
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[About working on the film The Girl Next Door (2004).] When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.
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"People would be so intimidated especially when I left the tattoo on and went out to a party. You'd get weird looks from everyone. Big, big macho dudes would be like, 'Oh, excuse me. Excuse me.' I was like, 'Yeah!' I mean, it was very strange for me to have people react to me like that. It's unheard of for me and to have girls going, 'You're crazy.' And looking at you from across the party like, 'You're a crazy one.'" In reference to his shaved head for Lords of Dogtown (2005).
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"I learned how to skate vert in pools and stuff. Now I can get on a board and skate a pool. We did three months of skating and surfing. It was surfing in the morning and skating in the afternoon. Tony Alva was our coach. He's not the easiest coach to work with. He's not like a coach. He tells you how to do it, and is like, 'Just do it. Just f-ing do it, dude!'" In reference to his skateboard training for Lords of Dogtown (2005).
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"I don't really want to do a teen comedy, you know? I mean, I just didn't want to be in a bad movie, that's all." In reference to his hesitance in deciding whether or not to play his character Matthew Kidman in The Girl Next Door (2004).
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I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.
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Fact
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Was charged with aggravated assault after he attacked and choked the female VP of Paramount Digital during a Sundance Film Festival party in early 2015. He claimed he had no memory of the incident due to consuming an enormous amount of alcohol. Hirsch checked into an alcohol rehab facility in the wake of the incident.
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Emile's paternal grandfather was from a German Jewish immigrant family. Emile also has English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry.
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He has a son called Valor, who was born in November 2013.
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living in Venice, California, USA [October 2005]
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Became a father for the 1st time at age 28 when his ex-girlfriend gave birth to their son Valor Hirsch on October 27, 2013.
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For his role as the title character in Speed Racer, he watched every episode of the anime.
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He spent 3 months training to skateboard and surf for Lords Of Dogtown.
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Had a body double for his nude scene in The Girl Next Door because he was only aged 17 at the time.
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Along with Jessica Biel, Isabel Lucas, musician Santi White, rapper Lupe Fiasco (and many others), he hiked Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on a benefit climb called Summit On The Summit, to bring awareness and relief to the world's clean water crisis. [January 2010]
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Attended Paul Revere Middle School in Los Angeles, CA.
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Was ranked #17 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actors list. [2008]
$15 Million
