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Full Name:Justin Long - Contact Justin Long
Birth Name:Justin Jake Long
Famous As: Actor
Date of Birth: June 02, 1978
Place of Birth: Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Height: 5' 8
Nationality: American
Father: R. James Long
Mother: Wendy
Brother(s): Christian Long (older), Damien Long (younger)
Education: Graduated from Fairfield College Preparatory School
Attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York
Claim to Fame: As Brandon in Galaxy Quest (1999)

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Justin Long

Long at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born Justin Jacob Long
June 2, 1978 (1978-06-02) (age 30)
Fairfield, Connecticut
Years active 1999–present
Official website

Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor, known for his performances in the films Jeepers Creepers, Waiting..., Accepted, Dodgeball, Galaxy Quest, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Live Free or Die Hard, the TV series Ed, and his personification of a Macintosh computer in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign.

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Biography

Early life

Long was born in Fairfield, Connecticut. His mother, Wendy Lesniak,1 is an actress who has mostly appeared on stage, and his father, R. James Long, is a philosophy and Latin teacher at Fairfield University. He has two brothers: an older brother, Damian, who is a local stage actor and a Film and English teacher and Theatre Director at Weston High School, in Weston, CT; and a younger brother, Christian, who appears in the movie Accepted as the school mascot. Long was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family2 and attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit school in Fairfield where he was given the "Most Likely Not To Be Seen In Class" superlative. He 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/counseler for a children's theatre group.

Career

Long's notable 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 maladjusted high-school student 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 fairly large role in the movie 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 Despite Long's various roles as computer geeks, he admitted to CraveOnline, "I'm very, very computer illiterate... I get the worst of both worlds; I look like a geeky hacker but I don't know anything about computers".5

Long is currently filming the psychological thriller After.Life in New York with Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci.6

Personal life

In July 2008, it was announced that Justin had split with Drew Barrymore.7

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Justin Long Interview, Die Hard 4 - MoviesOnline
  2. ^ Interview: Justin Long
  3. ^ Mac Computer And Maggie Q For Die Hard 4
  4. ^ McNamara, Mary. "Not Strictly Commercial." Los Angeles Times 23 Jul. 2006. The Life of Hollywood.
  5. ^ Justin Long on Living Free and Well, You Know
  6. ^ The Mac Guy vs Liam Neeson
  7. ^ EXCLUSIVE: Rep: Drew Barrymore & Justin Long Split.

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