Justin Lee Bartha (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor, known for his co-starring role as Riley Poole in the
National TreasureNational Treasure is a adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub...
films and as Doug Billings in
The HangoverThe Hangover is a comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, written by Jon Lucas and produced by Todd Phillips and Daniel Goldberg. The movie was made for Warner Bros. Productions and made by Legendary Pictures...
.
Bartha was born in
Fort Lauderdale, FloridaFort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of Broward County. According to 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city had a population of 183,606...
. His father, Stephen, is a real estate developer, while his mother, Betty, is a school
teacherIn education, a teacher is a person who educates others. A teacher who educates an individual student may also be described as a personal tutor....
. He has one sibling, a brother named Jeffrey. Bartha is
JewThe Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
ish. He was raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan. After he graduated from
West Bloomfield High SchoolWest Bloomfield High School is a public secondary school in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The school is the only public high school in the West Bloomfield School District. The school's population as of the 2007-2008 school year was about 2200 students. West Bloomfield High School was previously...
in 1996, he set his sights on New York, eventually training at
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
's Meisner Extension.
Bartha began his film career behind the camera as a
production assistantA production assistant, also known as a PA, is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person responsible for various aspects of a production...
on the film
Analyze ThisAnalyze This is a 1999 crime comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film stars Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist...
.
Justin Lee Bartha (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor, known for his co-starring role as Riley Poole in the
National TreasureNational Treasure is a adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub...
films and as Doug Billings in
The HangoverThe Hangover is a comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, written by Jon Lucas and produced by Todd Phillips and Daniel Goldberg. The movie was made for Warner Bros. Productions and made by Legendary Pictures...
.
Early life
Bartha was born in
Fort Lauderdale, FloridaFort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of Broward County. According to 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city had a population of 183,606...
. His father, Stephen, is a real estate developer, while his mother, Betty, is a school
teacherIn education, a teacher is a person who educates others. A teacher who educates an individual student may also be described as a personal tutor....
. He has one sibling, a brother named Jeffrey. Bartha is
JewThe Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
ish. He was raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan. After he graduated from
West Bloomfield High SchoolWest Bloomfield High School is a public secondary school in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The school is the only public high school in the West Bloomfield School District. The school's population as of the 2007-2008 school year was about 2200 students. West Bloomfield High School was previously...
in 1996, he set his sights on New York, eventually training at
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
's Meisner Extension.
Career
Bartha began his film career behind the camera as a
production assistantA production assistant, also known as a PA, is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person responsible for various aspects of a production...
on the film
Analyze ThisAnalyze This is a 1999 crime comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film stars Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist...
. His acting debut came a year later in a short film called
Tag in 1999. He wrote and directed a short film,
Highs and Lows, which was shown at the
South by SouthwestSouth by Southwest is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. SXSW first began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center...
Film Festival in 2003. Additionally, for
MTVMTV is a cable television network based in New York City and launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs...
he wrote, produced and starred in an
MTVMTV is a cable television network based in New York City and launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs...
pilot called the
The Dustin and Justin Show. He played a major role in the critically bashed
GigliGigli is a film released in 2003 which was written and directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Lainie Kazan. Its title is an homage to Nick Gigli, a minor character from John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy...
and
Carnival Sun before his co-starring role in
National TreasureNational Treasure is a adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub...
as Riley Poole. On December 19 2007, Bartha appeared on the radio show Loveline to support
National Treasure 2.
In 2006, Bartha had a supporting role in
Failure to LaunchFailure to Launch is a 2006 American romantic comedy film. It is a loose remake of the French film Tanguy, being solely based on its premise, the overgrown thirty-something child who does not want to leave home....
and starred in the television sitcom
TeachersTeachers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical comedy Scrubs.-Characters:Set in New Jersey,...
which premiered on March 28, 2006 on
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
, and was cancelled May 15, 2006 due to low ratings.
In November 2007, Bartha was cast in an
indieAn independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of any major film studio. Originally, this term denoted independence from Paramount Pictures, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., RKO, Universal Pictures, United Artists, and Columbia Pictures, the 8 major studio entities...
comic-drama,
Holy Rollers. His character lures a young Hasidic Jew into becoming an
ecstasyMDMA is a psychoactive amphetamine drug with entactogenic, psychedelic, and stimulant effects....
dealer. Filming is scheduled to begin in New York in the spring of 2008.
It has also been announced that Justin will star alongside
Catherine Zeta-JonesCatherine Zeta Jones is a Welsh actress, currently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of...
in the new
Bart FreundlichBartholomew Freundlich is an American director, screenwriter and producer.He grew up in Manhattan and eventually graduated with a double major in Cinema Studies and Film and Television Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.Before the creation of his first full length film,...
film,
The ReboundThe Rebound is a 2009 comedy about a 25-year-old man who starts to date a single mother . The movie began shooting in April 2008 in New York.-Plot:...
. The romantic comedy is about a 25-year-old man who starts a romance with his older single mother neighbor. The film began shooting in April 2008 in New York, and finished in June.
Filmography
| Film |
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes |
| 1999 |
Tag |
Kip Woffard |
|
| 2003 |
GigliGigli is a film released in 2003 which was written and directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Lainie Kazan. Its title is an homage to Nick Gigli, a minor character from John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy...
|
Brian |
|
| Carnival Sun |
Adam Roam |
|
| 2004 |
Strip Search |
|
TV film |
National TreasureNational Treasure is a adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub...
|
Riley Poole |
|
| 2005 |
Trust the Man Trust the Man is a 2006 romantic comedy film, starring David Duchovny, Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. It was directed and written by Bart Freundlich. The film primarily deals with three relationships, and a realization of just how important those relationships are...
|
Jasper Bernard |
|
| 2006 |
Failure to Launch Failure to Launch is a 2006 American romantic comedy film. It is a loose remake of the French film Tanguy, being solely based on its premise, the overgrown thirty-something child who does not want to leave home....
|
Ace |
|
| 2007 |
National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
Riley Poole |
|
| 2009 |
The Station |
Eric |
TV film |
| The Rebound The Rebound is a 2009 comedy about a 25-year-old man who starts to date a single mother . The movie began shooting in April 2008 in New York.-Plot:...
|
Aram Finklestein |
|
| The Hangover The Hangover is a comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, written by Jon Lucas and produced by Todd Phillips and Daniel Goldberg. The movie was made for Warner Bros. Productions and made by Legendary Pictures...
|
Doug Billings |
|
| Shoe at Your Feet |
Jack |
|
| Holly Rollers |
Yosef Zimmerman |
post-production |
| Long Time Gone |
Henry |
pre-production |
| New York, I Love You New York, I Love You is a 2009 romance film released in the United States on October 16, 2009. From the producer of Paris, je t'aime, it stars an ensemble cast, among them Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Orlando Bloom, Chris Cooper, Andy Garcia, Christina Ricci, Robin Wright...
|
Sarah's boyfriend |
|
| 2011 |
The Hangover 2 (film) |
Doug Billings |
pre-production |
| Television |
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 2006 |
Teachers |
Jeff Cahill |
Six episodes, main character |
| 2009 |
Nyhetsmorgon |
Baksmällan |
One episode, Swedish television show |
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