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What Mick thinks will revitalise the neighbourhood – and fend off the real-estate sharks circling, among other things, his dad’s pub – is a new casino. As Dean Gordon Pritchard, i.e. "Cheese," an old classmate who's out for revenge, Jeremy Piven plays the primary antagonist in Old School. Most notably, Piven is known for his three-time Emmy-winning performance as Ari Gold in HBO's Entourage. Later, the actor reprised this role in the 2015 big screen continuation.
After having paid his way through college with his film salaries, Piven was dismayed when a talent agent discouraged him from settling in Hollywood permanently. "She said to me, 'Look, Jeremy, you're probably not going to work until you're in your 40s.'" he recalled in the interview with Riley in Back Stage West . McKay began venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s. The Big Short was his first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. For this film, McKay was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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.
He’s just such a brilliant actor and all these people I have no doubt will be stars, all of them, you know, if they haven’t already, you know? I mean sometimes people will come and do a cameo on our show and then they’re suddenly, literally doing the lead in a new Star Wars movie. It was almost like going to graduate school — 4 years of graduate school — and hopefully I’m a better person because of it. It’s not easy to be That Guy, to stand out when relegated to a bit part and surrounded by other, starrier players, as Piven seemed doomed to be. But he was good at it, giving the few lines he got in films and TV shows just enough character to make himself noticeable without being over the top. In addition to his success on “Entourage,” Piven has also achieved significant success playing the title role in the British/PBS television drama series “Mr.

His other film credits include Final Destination, Cop Out, and Southland Tales. Piven didn't land his own major role until 1992 when he became a regular cast member on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show". However, he left the show after season two, citing that the character was not given enough background.
Piven's acerbic comic skills emerged when he played a television writer on the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show . His first starring role came in the college farce PCU in 1994, in which he played a perennial student and natural-born disruptor in the send-up of political correctness on college campuses. He spent the rest of the decade in supporting roles in such fare as Miami Rhapsody, Grosse Pointe Blank , and Kiss the Girls . There was also a three-year stint on Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom as her cousin, Spence, out of which Piven was offered his own hour-long series on ABC, Cupid , which debuted in the fall of 1998.
Later that month, an extra from "Entourage" Anastasia Taneie alleged that Piven had sexually assaulted her. On November 27, 2017, CBS pulled the plug on "Wisdom of the Crowd", which Piven had been the star of, in light of the allegations as well as bad ratings. In January 2018, Buzzfeed published an article in which three more women accused Piven of sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior. Buzzfeed News corroborated the stories with eight people who said the women had shared the encounters with them. Among his many notable roles, Piven is best known as movie agent Ari Gold in the hit series Entourage, which aired for eight seasons and won Piven three Emmy® Awards and a Golden Globe®.

On October 30, 2017, Ariane Bellamar, an adult film actress and reality television personality made accusations via Twitter that Jeremy had groped her. In November 2017 Anastasia Taneie who worked as an extra on Entourage alleged that Jeremy “confronted her in a dark hallway and groped her breast and genitals as he forcefully pushed her against a wall”. CBS decided not to order a full season of Wisdom of the Crowd on November 27, 2017, after weak ratings and allegations of sexual harassment involving Jeremy. After playing any character for eight seasons, it's hard for any actor to separate themselves from their TV persona.
Or most of the four decades of his career as an actor, Jeremy Piven played That Guy. As in, “Oh look, it’s That Guy who played the cousin with anger issues on the 1990s sitcom Ellen! It’s That Guy who played the awful check-out clerk in the film Singles! ” Or, most of all, “Oh look, it’s That Guy who always plays John Cusack’s obnoxious friend” .

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.
He has also expressed interest in helming a Silver Surfer movie for Marvel Studios. McKay originally auditioned for Saturday Night Live to be an onscreen performer, but did not make the cut. However, the scripts he submitted earned him a job as a writer from 1995, and within a year McKay became head writer at age 27, a position he held until 2001. He also directed a number of short films for the show, including the original SNL Digital Shorts.
His other notable television roles include Mr. Selfridge, Ellen, The Larry Sanders Show, and Seinfeld. That’s essentially the plot of HBO’sEntourage, the franchise inspired by Mark Wahlberg’s rise to stardom. The HBO series, created by Doug Ellin, won several Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe awards and its subsequent film garnered $49.3 million at the box Jeremy Piven office. The American sitcom television series titled Seinfeld was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. The series stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends. Jeremy portrayed George Costanza on the show-within-a-show scene in 1993 in the two-part Seinfeld episode “The Pilot”.