Jeremy Glazer
Encyclopedia
Jeremy Glazer is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Letters From Iwo Jima
and Save Me
. Glazer has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters and independent films, theatre and with guest appearances on such television shows as CSI:NY, Desperate Housewives
, Castle
and In Plain Sight
.
on Long Island
, in a Jewish family along side his older brother, Daniel Glazer; a former talent agent and now successful commercial real estate broker in New York. During his childhood summers he competed in many athletics at a sports camp in West Virginia
. He attended Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington
and was elected President of his class from sophomore to senior year, began performing in school theatre productions, competed in All County Chorus and played varsity tennis. His father, Roger Glazer and mother, Evelyn Cohen, are both retired health and physical education high school teachers.
Glazer attended the University of Delaware
, majoring in Mass
Communications and minoring in Theatre. During his summer semesters off from college, Glazer lived in Los Angeles
to intern in the entertainment industry to see where in entertainment his feet would land. After learning the industry from interning at reputable talent agencies and production companies, he graduated college with a bachelors degree and moved to Los Angeles. He first worked as a production assistant at Paramount Pictures
on such television shows as The Trouble With Normal, Spring Break Lawyer and Men, Women & Dogs
. Glazer then jumped into acting.
such as the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning Letters from Iwo Jima
which was directed by Clint Eastwood
and also named Best Film of the Year by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
in 2006, Save Me
, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and he co-produced and appeared in Good Dick
, which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Other film credits include Moonlight Serenade with Amy Adams
and When Do We Eat?
playing a young Jack Klugman
.
Glazer has made guest appearances on the television shows CSI:NY, Castle
, Desperate Housewives
, In Plain Sight
, Cold Case, Victorious
, Numb3rs
, Veronica Mars
, ER
, Angel
(and directed by Joss Whedon
),. He is no stranger to the stage working with the Broadway
cast of The Little Dog Laughed standing by for Johnny Galecki
and winning the LA Weekly Best Male Comedy Award for his leading role in Block Nine. Other theatre roles include both Dorian Gray
and James Vane in A Picture of Dorian Gray at the Boston Court Theatre in Los Angeles and also many critically acclaimed world premiere productions such as The Sandstorm, 7 Redneck Cheerleaders and Anything with his theatre company, The Elephant Theatre Company
.
's real-life boyfriend, both appearing in the film Save Me. In October 2008, AfterElton.com noted that Allen was Glazer's boyfriend. In May 2009, photojournalist Bill Wilson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel
that when Allen accepted a GLAAD Media Award, he announced that he had met Glazer, his partner, exactly four years earlier.
Letters from Iwo Jima
is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the...
and Save Me
Save Me (2007 film)
Save Me is a 2007 film directed by Robert Cary about Mark , a drug-addicted homosexual man who is admitted into an ex-gay program run by Gayle and her husband Ted...
. Glazer has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters and independent films, theatre and with guest appearances on such television shows as CSI:NY, Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
, Castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
and In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon , a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program , more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program...
.
Early life
Glazer was born and raised in Huntington Station, New YorkNew York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
on Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
, in a Jewish family along side his older brother, Daniel Glazer; a former talent agent and now successful commercial real estate broker in New York. During his childhood summers he competed in many athletics at a sports camp in West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
. He attended Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington
Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington
Walt Whitman High School is a four-year public secondary school located at 301 West Hills Road, in Huntington Station, New York. It is South Huntington Union Free School District's only high school, serving students in Huntington Station, South Huntington, Melville, and West Hills...
and was elected President of his class from sophomore to senior year, began performing in school theatre productions, competed in All County Chorus and played varsity tennis. His father, Roger Glazer and mother, Evelyn Cohen, are both retired health and physical education high school teachers.
Glazer attended the University of Delaware
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
, majoring in Mass
Communications and minoring in Theatre. During his summer semesters off from college, Glazer lived in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
to intern in the entertainment industry to see where in entertainment his feet would land. After learning the industry from interning at reputable talent agencies and production companies, he graduated college with a bachelors degree and moved to Los Angeles. He first worked as a production assistant at Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
on such television shows as The Trouble With Normal, Spring Break Lawyer and Men, Women & Dogs
Men, Women & Dogs
Men, Women & Dogs is an American comedy television series starring Bill Bellamy. The series premiered October 14, 2001 on The WB Television Network.-Plot:The series centered around four guys who meet everyday with their dogs in a Los Angeles dog park...
. Glazer then jumped into acting.
Career
Not long after beginning his acting career he gained film creditssuch as the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima
is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the...
which was directed by Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
and also named Best Film of the Year by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr.'s revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908. The mayor believed that the new medium...
in 2006, Save Me
Save Me (2007 film)
Save Me is a 2007 film directed by Robert Cary about Mark , a drug-addicted homosexual man who is admitted into an ex-gay program run by Gayle and her husband Ted...
, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and he co-produced and appeared in Good Dick
Good Dick
Good Dick is a 2008 film directed by Marianna Palka.The film competed among others in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...
, which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Other film credits include Moonlight Serenade with Amy Adams
Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous...
and When Do We Eat?
When Do We Eat? (2006 film)
When Do We Eat? is a 2006 American comedy film. It is rated R for drugs, sex, and suggestive content.-Plot:When Do We Eat? is the story of a dysfunctional Jewish family's Passover Seder. This is the family's first Seder in three years and the tension is high. Before the Seder, Zeke slips his...
playing a young Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman
Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman is an American stage, film and television actor known for his roles in sitcoms, movies, and television and on Broadway...
.
Glazer has made guest appearances on the television shows CSI:NY, Castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
, Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
, In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon , a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program , more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program...
, Cold Case, Victorious
Victorious
Victorious is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around aspiring singer Tori Vega , a teenager who attends a performing arts high school called Hollywood Arts High School, after taking her older sister Trina's place in a showcase while getting into...
, Numb3rs
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
, Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
, ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, Angel
Angel (TV series)
Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
(and directed by Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures...
),. He is no stranger to the stage working with the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
cast of The Little Dog Laughed standing by for Johnny Galecki
Johnny Galecki
John Mark "Johnny" Galecki is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as David Healy in the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Rusty Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and as Leonard Hofstadter in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.-Early life:Galecki was born in Bree, Belgium, of...
and winning the LA Weekly Best Male Comedy Award for his leading role in Block Nine. Other theatre roles include both Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray is the main character of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.It may also refer to:* Dorian Gray , an Italian film starring Helmut Berger...
and James Vane in A Picture of Dorian Gray at the Boston Court Theatre in Los Angeles and also many critically acclaimed world premiere productions such as The Sandstorm, 7 Redneck Cheerleaders and Anything with his theatre company, The Elephant Theatre Company
Elephant Theatre Company
The is a 5013 Non-Profit Theatre located in Los Angeles' Theatre Row District. It has over 75 members including actors, designers, directors, and stage managers....
.
Personal life
In November 2006, Greg Hernandez wrote in his column, "Out in Hollywood" in the The Los Angeles Daily News that Glazer was actor Chad AllenChad Allen (actor)
Chad Allen is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, best known for rising to prominence as a teen idol during the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama,...
's real-life boyfriend, both appearing in the film Save Me. In October 2008, AfterElton.com noted that Allen was Glazer's boyfriend. In May 2009, photojournalist Bill Wilson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel
San Francisco Sentinel
The San Francisco Sentinel is an online newspaper serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities of the San Francisco Bay Area...
that when Allen accepted a GLAAD Media Award, he announced that he had met Glazer, his partner, exactly four years earlier.
Selected filmography
- Desperate HousewivesDesperate HousewivesDesperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
(2011) TV Series .... Geoffrey Mathers - CastleCastle (TV series)Castle is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios. On January 10, 2011, Castle was renewed for a fourth season...
(2011) TV Series .... Nick Keller - CSI: NYCSI: NYCSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
(2011) TV Series .... Mr. Booker - How I Met Your MotherHow I Met Your MotherHow I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
(2010) TV Series .... Bruce - Moonlight Serenade (2009) Motion Picture .... Gary
- The Last Resort (2009/I) Motion Picture .... Jeremy
- In Plain SightIn Plain SightIn Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon , a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program , more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program...
(2009) TV Series...Avi Rosenzweig/Andy Roth - Cold Case (2009) TV Series .... Steve Wiegen
- Numb3rsNUMB3RSNumb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
(2008) TV Series .... Clayton Caswell - Eli StoneEli StoneEli Stone is an American TV series, and also the name of the title character.San Francisco lawyer Eli Stone begins to see things, which leads him to discover a brain aneurysm...
(2008) TV Series - Good DickGood DickGood Dick is a 2008 film directed by Marianna Palka.The film competed among others in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...
(2008) Motion Picture .... also Co-Producer - Girl Camp (2007)
- Veronica MarsVeronica MarsVeronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
(2007) TV Series .... George - Save MeSave Me (2007 film)Save Me is a 2007 film directed by Robert Cary about Mark , a drug-addicted homosexual man who is admitted into an ex-gay program run by Gayle and her husband Ted...
Motion Picture .... Trey - Letters from Iwo JimaLetters from Iwo Jimais a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the...
(2006) Motion Picture .... Marine Lieutenant - When Do We Eat?When Do We Eat? (2006 film)When Do We Eat? is a 2006 American comedy film. It is rated R for drugs, sex, and suggestive content.-Plot:When Do We Eat? is the story of a dysfunctional Jewish family's Passover Seder. This is the family's first Seder in three years and the tension is high. Before the Seder, Zeke slips his...
(2005) Motion Picture .... Young Artur - AngelAngel (TV series)Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
(2004) - ERER (TV series)ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
(2004) .... Med Student David - 7th Heaven7th Heaven7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on the WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from August 26, 1996 to May 13, 2007...
(2003) TV Series .... Howard Goodman - ProvidenceProvidence (TV series)Providence is an American drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.-Synopsis:The show revolves around Dr...
(2002) .... Chad
External links
- http://www.jeremyglazer.com/