Justin Long | |
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![]() Long at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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Born |
Justin Jacob Long June 2, 1978 Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S. |
Alma mater | Vassar College |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1999–present |
Known for |
Ed playing Warren P. Cheswick Jeepers Creepers playing Darry Jenner DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story playing Justin Redman Voice of Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks Accepted playing Bartleby "B" Gaines Live Free or Die Hard playing Matt Farrell Spyro the Dragon in the Skylanders television series. Voice of Kevin Murphy in F Is for Family. Holt Mulligan in The Lookalike. |
Partner(s) |
Drew Barrymore (2007–2010) Amanda Seyfried (2013–2015) Lauren Mayberry (2016-present) |
Parent(s) | R. James Long & Wendy Lesniak |
Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for roles in such films as Jeepers Creepers (2001), Dodgeball (2004), Accepted (2006), Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Alpha and Omega (2010), Tusk (2014), and Comet (2014). He played Warren Cheswick on the NBC TV series Ed, and appeared with John Hodgman in TV commercials for Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign.
Long was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, to father R. James Long, a philosophy and Latin professor at Fairfield University, and mother, Wendy Lesniak, a former actress who has mostly appeared on stage. His grandmother was of Sicilian descent. Long had a conservative Roman Catholic upbringing. His older brother, Damian, is a local stage actor as well as a teacher and theatre director at Weston High School. Long attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit school, and Vassar College, where he was a member of the sketch comedy group Laughingstock and starred in several plays, including Butterflies Are Free.