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Jake Weber (born March 19, 1964) is a British actor.
Portrays Joe Dubois, the loving husband of psychic Allison Dubois in NBC's hit drama series "Medium.
Weber is most recognizable for his role as Michael in "Dawn of the Dead" and for his role opposite Brad Pitt in "Meet Joe Black." In 2001-2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man" and has made guest appearances on NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and ABC's "NYPD Blue.
Early life
Weber was born in London, England.
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Jake Weber (born March 19, 1964) is a British actor.
Portrays Joe Dubois, the loving husband of psychic Allison Dubois in NBC's hit drama series "Medium.
Weber is most recognizable for his role as Michael in "Dawn of the Dead" and for his role opposite Brad Pitt in "Meet Joe Black." In 2001-2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man" and has made guest appearances on NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and ABC's "NYPD Blue.
Early life
Weber was born in London, England. He attended Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk, England and attended Middlebury in Vermont, where he majored in English Literature and Political Science, graduating cum laude with a BA. He attended the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1991, and also studied at Russia's famed Moscow Art Theatre. He sang in Middlebury College's Dissipated Eight.
Career
One of Hollywood's standbys for playing genial everymen during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Jake Weber hailed from Britain. His roles typically constituted bit parts in A-list Hollywood features, beginning with that of Kyra Sedgwick's (unnamed) boyfriend in the Oliver Stone-directed period saga Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and continuing with work for directors including Sidney Lumet (A Stranger Among Us, 1992), the late Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, 1993) and Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black, 1998). Weber fortified his nice-guy image -- and scored one of his premier leads -- as Dr. Matt Crower, a kindly physician who takes charge of a young boy and protects him from a possessed sheriff -- in actor-turned-producer Shaun Cassidy's short-lived supernatural drama series American Gothic (1995) on CBS. Unfortunately, that program soon folded after it first bowed, as did the Mike Binder sitcom The Mind of the Married Man (2001), in which Weber signed on as one of the leads, Chicago newspaper employee Jake Berman. After a substantial role in the gory horror remake Dawn of the Dead (2004), Weber played one of the leads in the popular CBS series Medium -- as Joe Dubois, the husband of a woman (Patricia Arquette) plagued by psychic visions, who uses her ability to help solve crimes.
Weber's break-out role in the US came in 1993, as a lawyer informant in the thriller The Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
Weber has performed extensively on and off-Broadway.
Family
In real life, Weber and girlfriend, Elizabeth Carey, have a son named Waylon born in 2006.
As a boy, Weber was present at the Rolling Stones' recording sessions for the album "Exile on Main Street" in the summer of 1971. His father, Tommy Weber, was an associate of Keith Richards, who hosted the gathering/recording at Nellcote at his then-residence along the southern coast of France.
Weber currently lives in Los Angeles.
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