Works by Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor and filmmaker who has appeared in film, television, and stage. He began his career as a child with regular and understudy roles in Broadway and off-Broadway theater productions. During his senior year of high school at the Professional Performing Arts School, Eisenberg starred in the independent comedy-drama film Roger Dodger (2002), which earned a nomination for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer.

In 2005, Eisenberg appeared in Wes Craven's horror comedy Cursed and Noah Baumbach's drama The Squid and the Whale. He starred opposite Richard Gere and Terrence Howard as a young Hasidic Jewish man involved in the ecstasy smuggling trade in the comic thriller The Hunting Party (2007). After leading the comedies Adventureland and Zombieland (both 2009), Eisenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's The Social Network (2010). He then starred in the Rio franchise (2011–present) and the Now You See Me film series (2013–present), while working with Woody Allen on the romantic comedies To Rome with Love (2012) and Café Society (2016). He later portrayed Lex Luthor in the superhero films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).

Before starring in the television miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble, Eisenberg made his feature directorial debut with the comedy-drama film When You Finish Saving the World (2022). He then wrote, directed, and starred opposite Kieran Culkin in the buddy comedy A Real Pain (2024), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In literature, Eisenberg is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern; his humor essays have also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The New York Times. He has narrated numerous audiobooks and wrote several plays for the New York stage and the West End.