Justin Long
Long at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Justin Jacob Long June 2, 1978 (1978-06-02) (age 31) Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting..., Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me To Hell, the NBC dramedy series Ed, and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign.

Early life

Long was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and raised in a Roman Catholic family.¹ He attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit school. His mother, Wendy Lesniak,² is an actress who has mostly appeared on stage. His father, R. James Long, is a philosophy and Latin professor at Fairfield University.

Long has two brothers: an older brother, Damian, who is a local stage actor as well as a teacher and theater director at Weston High School, and a younger brother, Christian, who appears in the movie Accepted as the school mascot. Long attended Vassar College, where he was a member of the sketch comedy group Laughingstock and starred in several plays including Butterflies are Free. He left college early to pursue his career. Before leaving, he worked at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut as an acting instructor/counselor for a children's theater group. He dated Drew Barrymore in 2008, but then they split. In 2009 they reunited and are currently dating.

Career

Long benefited early in his career from friendship with MGM casting agent Devon O'Brien, who gave him his first job in a Pepsi commercial alongside Clint Eastwood.

Long's film credits include Jeepers Creepers, Waiting..., Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, The Break-Up, Crossroads, Galaxy Quest, Dreamland, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Live Free Or Die Hard. He was also a regular on the NBC TV series Ed (2000–2004), playing socially awkward Warren Cheswick. He voiced the character of Alvin in 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks and played the main character in the 2006 comedy film Accepted.

He made a guest appearance in the 2006 documentary, Wild West Comedy Show. In 2007, he co-starred with Bruce Willis as a "white-hat hacker" in Live Free or Die Hard³ and had a role in the film, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang.

(left-right) Jonah Hill, Long and Blake Lively promoting Accepted at Comic-Con in 2006

Long is also known for his depiction of a Mac in Apple's Get a Mac campaign. The campaign features commercials in which Long as a Mac and John Hodgman as a PC are engaged in playful banter about "the strengths of the Mac platform and weaknesses of the PC platform."⁴

Long also had a small role in the 2008 comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, where he plays Brandon St. Randy, a gay porn star. He recently starred in He's Just Not That into You (2009) as the character Alex, along with co-star Ginnifer Goodwin. Long cameoed on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live (season 35, host: Drew Barrymore; musical guest: Regina Spektor) as Matthew McConaughey on a sketch called "Celebrity Ghost Stories."

Long has recently been cast as a one-armed Civil War veteran in Robert Redford's The Conspirator.⁵

Filmography

References

External links

• Justin Long at the Internet Movie Database
• Mac Ads
• RadarOnline Article about Apple not bringing Long back, and bringing him back after all
• Interview with Justin Long at SuicideGirls.com
• Video interview with Justin Long at the premiere of The Break-Up
• "Robin's Big Date" on Transbuddha.com