JEREMY PIVEN

The comedian has appeared in countless films with John Cusack. Just like Jeremy, John is also from Evanston and is a fellow alumnus of the Piven Theatre Workshop (as are Cusack’s sisters Joan and Ann). Both Jeremy and John once shared an apartment and have been friends since high school. Piven's role is a dramatic turn from his days playing the smart-mouthed Gold, despite both characters flying off the handle at any given moment. When RadarOnline.com spoke to him on the red carpet, he didn't hesitate to talk about his past, revealing he's not closing the door on an Entourage sequel.
Telling him that he stole Entourage, for example, merits a two-seat move and a happy, “Well, thank you.” In this appetite for praise and in his occasional total lack of self-awareness, there is something quite pleasingly David Brent-ish about Piven. In 2004 Jeremy bought a beachfront home in Malibu for $3.5 million. He finally sold the house in February 2019 for $6.6 million.

Then, in 2004, he went from being That Guy to The Guy, with his career-making role in the HBO show Entourage. Though he wasn’t the lead, his performance as the foul-mouthed, hyper-aggressive Hollywood agent Ari Gold not only stole the show but kept it alive for seven years. Any scene Ari wasn’t in felt wasted, and Piven deservedly won a Golden Globe and three Emmys in the role. During his eight seasons as a lead performer on Entourage, Jeremy earned a total of at least $15 million. He then earned $2 million to appear in the 2015 Entourage movie, bringing his total earnings from the series to $17 million.
I will miss London, and I’ll be there again in a different circumstance whether it’s TV, film, on stage, visiting, you know, doing a puppet show, whatever, you know? It was an interesting journey for me because I really wanted to play Harry with all the dimension that he deserved and British men don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves and I…There was a moment where I really let Harry be kind of raw and emotional. Actor Jeremy Piven looks back on his four-year journey as Mr. Selfridge and to get us ready to watch the series finale.
Following his departure from SNL, he rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, with McKay himself co-producing their website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions. Additionally, on television, Luke Wilson starred in short-lived shows like Roadies and Enlightened.

Around the same time he sold a duplex penthouse in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood for $7.8 million. In 2017 he purchased what is today his primary residence, a $6.8 million home above Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Chicago native Jeremy Piven stars as fellow Midwesterner Harry Gordon Selfridge in Masterpiece’s new series Mr. Selfridge about the mercantile genius who showed early 20th-century London how to shop. Piven is also touring the country with his successful stand-up comedy show, flexing a comedic muscle that few actors have been able to transition over to.
Reality TV personality Ariane Bellamar made accusations via Twitter in October 2017 that Piven had groped her. Cassidy Freeman came to Bellamar's defense via Instagram when she alluded to her own disturbing past with Piven, who the actress claims engaged in predatory behavior toward her. A week later, advertising exec Tiffany Bacon Scourby alleged Piven had sexually assaulted her in 2003.
The tour will see him across the entire continental U.S. and also take him internationally to the U.K. Gonzalez also said despite receiving some backlash she’s still glad she spoke up in 2018. The whole reason she reached out to tell her story, says Gonzalez, is because Piven denied the other allegations made against him.

On April 30, 2023, it was announced the project had been acquired by Netflix. He enrolled at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa for his undergraduate degree. However, Jeremy departed after his sophomore year to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
McKay and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In 2022, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for his latest work on the apocalyptic comedy film Don't Look Up. Playing the part of Mark, Nicole's boyfriend, Craig Kilborn plays a combative character in Old School.

McKay encouraged his Second City friend Tina Fey to submit some of her scripts to Saturday Night Live, and she later succeeded him as head writer. Though McKay was never an actual SNL cast member, he did make several on-camera appearances over the years and had a recurring role as an obnoxious audience member "Keith" who would often shout insults at the celebrity hosts during their opening monologue. His soft-headed comedy-drama has the profundity and about the same wit level of one of those joke signs you see above bars, and often feels like it was scripted on a hangover after a two-day bender. Jeremy Piven plays Mick, prodigal real estate-developer son who returns to his old stomping ground of Darby Heights (based on Philadelphia’s Upper Darby) for his mother’s funeral. His feckless buddies, including jail-hopping brother Dougal , are still living their old boozy lives.
Cusack, Skye, Crowe and executive producer James L. Brooks are set to reunite for a panel discussion following a screening of the movie at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 30 in celebration of the pic's 30th anniversary. Lili Taylor, Loren Dean, Pamela Adlon , Jeremy Piven, Eric Stoltz, Bebe Neuwirth and Chynna Phillips also starred in the film, which was Cameron Crowe's directorial debut. See what 'Say Anything' stars John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney and more have been up to since the Cameron Crowe-directed film hit theaters on April 14, 1989. Will is an entertainment writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. His writing can also be found in The Playlist, Cut Print Film, We Got This Covered, The Young Folks, Slate and other outlets. He also co-hosts the weekly film/TV podcast Cinemaholics with Jon Negroni and he likes to think he's a professional Garfield enthusiast.
He starred as Trevor Hale, the deity whose mission is to play matchmaker for a hundred couples before he can find true love himself on Earth. In his mortal guise, he recounts his own dating travails to a therapist , who harbors a secret crush on him. "Piven gives the sort of motormouth wise-guy performance that sometimes makes you want to slap his smirky little face," wrote Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker, who nevertheless deemed the series a "charming" one, both "lively and funny." Actor Jeremy Piven spent nearly 20 years of his career in supporting roles, and though he was a familiar face to movie-goers, was never considered a box-office draw. His fortunes, however, improved immensely when he began playing Ari Gold, the caustic Hollywood agent on the hit HBO series Entourage , and won an Emmy for his second season in the role in 2006.