• Ebon Moss-Bachrach is an American actor best known for his roles in “Girls” and “The Punisher”
• He graduated from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and graduated from Hunter College
• He has appeared in over 30 movies, 8 episodes of “Damages”, 25 episodes of “Girls” and 8 episodes of “The Punisher”
• He is married to Ukrainian photographer, film director and painter Yelena Yemchuk and has two daughters
• His estimated net worth is over $2 million

 

Ebon Moss-Bachrach is an American actor, probably best remembered for his roles in the television series “Girls” as Desi Harperin and “The Punisher” as David Lieberman.

Early life and family

Ebon Moss-Bachrach was born on March 19, 1977 in New York City, USA, to parents Eric Bachrach and Renee Moss. He has a younger brother named Elan Moss-Bachrach, who was born on January 4, 1983. His father was born in Heidelberg, then West Germany, to American parents, and grew up secular in a Jewish neighborhood in The Bronx, and later came there is a bar. mitzvah. He graduated from Manhattan’s High School of Music and Art, and graduated from Hunter College with a major in English and a minor in music. He was already ‘working’ during his student years in the late 1960s, when he took part in protests against inequality and oppression in society.

Eric and Renee were public school teachers in New York City right out of college, then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts when Ebon was about to begin his education, where Renee ran a thrift store for children. Eric established the non-profit Community Music School of Springfield (CMSS) for underprivileged children in December 1983, becoming its executive director. He retired in October 2010 after 26 years with the school, but later taught at the University of Massachusetts, played violin in amateur orchestras, and continued to teach violin. In an interview, Eric said, “I felt very happy and privileged to do the job, and very happy and privileged to leave the job.”

Elan is an actor, who appeared as Pete Fairman in the episode “Woman on the Verge” of the series “Gossip Girl” in 2008, and as Rick Siebert in the episode “Playing Dead” of “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” in 2009.

He also appeared in the movie “American Virgin” (2009) and the short comedy “The Best Man” (2010).

Ebon’s paternal grandparents were schoolteachers, and after World War II, his grandfather worked as an interpreter for a non-profit organization that helped return works of art and other items taken by the Nazis to their original owners.

Education background

Ebon graduated from Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts and graduated from Columbia University in New York City.

Career

First steps

His first acting experience was in the junior high school production of Thornton Wilder’s three-act play, “Our Town”, and was followed by the college production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, co-starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Ebon made his television debut with the small role as Billy in the made-for-TV crime thriller, “Murder in a Small Town” (1999), starring Gene Wilder. From May to August 2000, he played the role of 19-year-old Jimmy, who ran off with his friend’s bored mother, Rita, in Daisy Foote’s off-Broadway play ‘When They Speak of Rita’. which premiered on Primary Stages. He debuted on the big screen as the first waiter in Ryan Gosling, starring “The Believer”, which won the Grand Jury award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Further success

Movies

He starred in more than 30 films, mostly for minor or supporting roles; there were times when he did three or four a year and times when he did nothing at all. Most of the films he was a part of failed to break even and only a few were considered box office hits. Some were entries for international film festivals.

Bachrach was Fredrick the bellhop in the comedy drama “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001), starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Gwyneth Paltrow, and it grossed over $70 million on a $70 million budget. 21 million. He played Charlie Stewart in the drama “Mona Lisa Smile” (2003), starring Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst and Maggie Gyllenhaal, which grossed over $140 million against the $72 million production budget. He played the role of Henry Wyler in the romantic drama “The Lakehouse” (2006), starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, and grossed $115 million worldwide on a $40 million production budget.

More recent films he has appeared in include “Good Posture” and “Blow the Man Down”, both of which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and were highly acclaimed by critics.

He also starred in “Tesla”, a biographical film, which was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 and is scheduled for release in August 2020.

Television

When he was just starting out as an actor in television, he made guest appearances on the police series “Law & Order”, such as in the pilot episode of “Criminal Intent” (2001), the episode “Truth or Consequences” in “Trial by Jury” (2005) and episode “Informed” in “Special Victims Unit” (2006). He was also cast in an episode of the supernatural drama series such as “Fringe” (2008) and “Medium” (2009).

In the critically acclaimed psychological thriller “Damages”, starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne, Ebon played the role of Nick Salenger and appeared in eight episodes in 2010.

He had a recurring role in season three of the comedy drama ‘Girls’ playing the obnoxious character of Desi Harperin. He subsequently became part of the main cast in seasons four through six and appeared in a total of 25 episodes -2017). The series received positive reviews from critics during its run and was nominated in several categories by various awarding bodies and even won a few, including Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical at the 70^e Golden Globe awards in 2012.

His big break in television came in 2016 when he was cast as a series regular in “The Punisher”, which was based on the Marvel Comics character Punisher/Frank Castle played by Jon Bernthal. Ebon’s character was that of a former NSA (National Security Agency) analyst named David “Micro” Lieberman.

The first season of this web TV series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was released on Netflix on November 17, 2017 and the second season on January 18, 2019, after which the series was canceled.

He was cast as a series regular in 2018 for the role of Christopher McQueen in the supernatural horror, “Nos4A2”, a story about Victoria McQueen played by Ashleigh Cummings, a young performer with a supernatural ability to defeat the evil Immortal, Charlie Manx, played by Zachary Quinto. This series from AMC premiered in June 2019 and the second season aired in June 2020.

Theater

Apart from being busy with film and television work, he also found time to perform in Off-Broadway plays such as “36 Views” (2002), “Fifth of July” (2003), “On the Mountain” (2005 ), and “Three Sisters” (2011).

Private life

Ebon met Ukrainian photographer, film director and painter Yelena Yemchuk through a mutual friend in 2004.

With her, he has two daughters, namely Sasha, born in 2007, and Mirabelle, born in 2009. They all currently live in a loft in Brooklyn.

Who is Yelena Yemchuk?

Yelena Yemchuk was born on April 22, 1970 in Kiev, the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and was 11 when her family emigrated to the US and settled in Brooklyn, New York City. Her interest in photography began when her father gave her a 35mm Minolta camera when she was 14^e birthday. She went on to study at Parsons, a private art and design school in Greenwich Village, and the non-profit Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Like a pro photographer specializing in portraiture and fashion, she worked on advertising campaigns for both luxury and ready-to-wear brands, and contributed to several fashion magazines, including “The New Yorker,” “W,” “Italian Vogue,” and “Japanese Mode.”

She also worked on the albums of Australian pop duo Savage Garden, American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, and provided cover artwork for singles and albums. She also co-directed the music video for “Thirty-Three” and directed the “Zero” MV. Incidentally, from 1995 to 2004, she was in a relationship with the band’s frontman, Billy Corgan.

Her paintings were exhibited at the Dactyl Foundation. Her first book, “Gidropark”, was published in 2011, featuring photos of the leisure park she frequented when she was young, especially in the summer when it became a playground where people of all ages came to just relax and enjoy of the waterfronts. She called it “the Soviet version of Coney Island” and was able to capture it all in the photos she took over three summers, 2005-2008.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Desi Harperin in HBO’s Girls.

Posted by Convention All Stars on Thursday, November 30, 2017

Hobbies, favorite things and interesting facts

• He was in his teens when he played the piano as a member of a jazz quartet.
• Ebon said his cooking skills earned him his role in “Girls.” His family was away for the weekend and staying at the beach house of Jesse Peretz, an old friend and also the director-producer of “Girls.” He met Jenni Konner, one of the series’ executive producers, who was also there with her family, and they bonded over his Spanish tortilla cooking skills, who later said she would write a role for him. He said he hears that a lot, but it never happens; however, a year later, his agent got a call to play the role of Desi.

Appearance

He is 1.78m tall, weighs 73kg and has a slim build with a bust of 41 inches and a waist of 32 inches. He has brown hair and blue eyes.

Net value

As of July 2020, Ebon Moss-Bachrach has an estimated net worth of over $2 million sources.

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