Unscripted

Background:

“I’m not really concerned about fame, or all the things that come along with being an actor. It's all just a side product of the work and that is the important thing. What it's all about. I think that has gotten me thus far and hopefully will sustain me throughout my life is just concentrating on the work, because that is what is important to me. The actors that I respect, that is what they value.” Bryan Greenberg

American actor Bryan Greenberg rose to fame after having guest roles in the hit TV shows “Third Watch,” “The Sopranos” and “Boston Public” (all 2000), but did not enjoy true popularity until he played the recurring role of Jake Jagielski on The WB series “One Tree Hill” from 2003 to 2006 and starred as himself in the HBO semi-fictional series “Unscripted” in 2005. Telling about his part in the first show, he said, “I don't think I'm Mr. Buddha man. I think I have profound things to say sometimes, but most of the time, they are just stupid. I'm not as deep as Jake. He has a lot of things brewing under the surface. I mean I have secrets, we all have secrets, but I don't have a baby...that I know of!” He added, “Jack is so random and cryptic. He's sort of like the Buddha of basketball. He doesn't say much, but when he speaks, what he says is important.” More recently, he is known as Nick Garrett on the ABC drama “October Road” (2007-?). As a movie actor, the brown-headed, brown-eyed who had his debut with an uncredited role in the 1998 John Travolta successful drama “A Civil Action” offered a memorable turn as Uma Thurman's much younger lover, David, on Ben Younger's “Prime” (2005). Other film credits include co-starring with Scarlett Johansson in “The Perfect Score” (2004) and playing the title role in the festival-premiered “Nobel Son” (2007).

Greenberg's admirers should not miss his impressive performance in the upcoming film “Bride Wars” (2009), playing Nate.

Apart from his fruitful career as an actor, the Los Angeles resident is an skilled singer/musician. He has performed his songs in “One Three Hill,” “Unscripted” and “October Road” and released a debut album called “Waiting For Now” (2007). Besides, he has toured America with other singers such as Michelle Branch and Gavin DeGraw.

As for his personal life, Greenberg is not married. He is good friends with “The Perfect Score” co-star Chris Evans. He enjoys basketball, roller-balde, ski and play lacrosse.

BG

Childhood and Family:

“I grew up in the Midwest around grounded normal people. My parents are still together. I have good parents, and you can’t really pick your parents, so I guess I just got lucky.” Bryan Greenberg

Bryan E. Greenberg, whose nickname is BG, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 24, 1978, to Jewish psychologists. He was raised in a bourgeois household and as a part of Jewish youth groups, the boy attended Jewish summer camps and traveled to Israel. At age 12, he relocated to St. Louis, Missouri with his family, and attended Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, MO. He moved again after high school, this time to New York, and stayed there for five years. Bryan earned a B.F.A. in theater from New York University and in 2001, he headed to Los Angeles to further pursue his acting career.

Prime

Career:

Omaha, Nebraska-born and St Louis, Missouri-bred Bryan Greenberg found acting early in his life but did not consider it as a profession until college. First making his public appearance in a commercial for Cookie Crisp Cereal in St. Louis, the young thespian starred in various stage productions at NYU, including “Romeo and Juliet,” and went on to hone his craft at the famed Experimental Theater Workshop, the Atlantic Theater Company, Stone Street Theater and the Amsterdam Experimental Workshop. It was in 1997 that Greenberg made his television acting debut in an episode of NBC's “Law & Order” called “Thrill,” playing Matt Wheeler. He recalled, “Yeah, I got shot. I had about 30 seconds of fame. I was a chicken delivery guy, and some kids shot me and left me for dead. It’s a cruel world out there.” He followed it up in the next year by having an uncredited part as firecracker kid in the John Travolta starring vehicle “A Civil Action,” which marked Greenberg's feature film acting debut.

Greenberg's luck started to change in 2000 following guest starring roles in such popular television shows as HBO's “The Sopranos,” NBC's “Third Watch” and Fox's “Boston Public.” He continued to have an episodic-part in the series “Three Sisters” (2001), “Strong Medicine,” “The Chronicle” and “Providence” (all 2002) before scoring some success as Jake Jagielski, a high school basketball player who leads a dual life as a single parent, on The WB drama series “One Tree Hill,” a recurring role he assumed from 2003 to 2006. In addition to acting, the accomplished singer/musician also performed the songs “Say Yes,” “Mind Leak,” “Lonely World” and “Someday” on episodes of the show. He said, “I feel pretty darn lucky to be on 'One Tree Hill.' I get to do the three things I love most in the world, which are act, play basketball and play guitar.”

Greenberg revisited the wide screen in 2004 to play the noted costarring role of Matty Matthews, one of six high school seniors trying to break into a SAT testing center to steal the answers of their upcoming tests, in the Brian Robbins-helmed “The Perfect Score.” Among his costars in the movie were Erika Christensen, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson. In the following year, Greenberg returned to series TV with victory when he starred as himself in the HBO semi-fictional show “Unscripted,” executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney, who also served as the show's co-director (with Grant Heslov). In the series, which also starred fellow actors Jennifer Hall and Krista Allen, Greenberg also penned and performed the song “I Sorta Have a Girlfriend.” Still in 2005, Greenberg was cast opposite Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep in the drama/romance film “Prime,” directed and penned by Ben Younger, and received plaudit for his role as Thurman's twenty-something boy toy, David Bloomberg. “It's my first breakout leading role in a really good film. I've nowhere to go but up,” he stated. He added, about meeting with Meryl Streep, who played his mother on the film, by saying, “Then when I met her, she was so disarming and cool and generous; she wasn't an icon or on a high horse at all, she was just as willing to learn. That levelled the playing field a little bit. As a young actor trying to make it for a while, actually it's what I've always wanted to do.”

In 2006, Greenberg acted in “Escape,” an 18-minute shot from writer/director Josh C. Walker, and supported Sean Astin, Gina Philips and Adam Rodriguez in Jessica Kavana's “Thanks to Gravity,” a comedy/drama about a girl named Jordan Landa (played by Gina Philips) who runs into a snarl-up on her road to maturity. He starred as the son of Alan Rickman and Mary Steenburgen on the Randall Miller-helmed “Nobel Son,” which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in the United States and the 2007 Haifa Film Festival in Israel prior to its theatrical release in April 2008.

Currently, Greenberg is starring as Nick Garrett on the ABC series “October Road” (2007-?), which was nominated for a 2007 Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Breakout Show. The drama also stars Laura Prepon as Hannah Daniels, Brad William Henke as Owen Rowan, Geoff Stults as Eddie Latekka and Tom Berenger as The Commander, among others.

30-year-old Greenberg will portray a character named Nate in the forthcoming movie “Bride Wars,” a Gary Winick directed comedy/romance set to be released in 2009. Among his costars in the project are Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson and Candice Bergen.

As a musician/singer, in addition to having performed some of his songs on his TV projects, Greenberg has independently recorded and released his debut album, “Waiting For Now” (2007), which is now available on iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody. He has also toured with other artists like Michelle Branch, Tyler Hilton and Gavin DeGraw. In 2008, he appeared in the “Yes We Can” Barack Obama music video alongside fellow musicians John Legend, Will.I.Am and Herbie Hancock, among others, as well as fellow actors such as Scarlett Johannson, Adam Rodriguez, Aisha Tyler, and Enrique Murciano, to name a few.

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