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I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

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Jesse Eisenberg
Age: 40
Born: 1983
Born: October 5
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Jesse Adam Eisenberg
Theater
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School
Jersey
Children
Queens
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Seven

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