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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 5
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Queens
New York
Jesse Adam Eisenberg
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