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Justin Long
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 Long at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | Justin Jacob Long June 2, 1978 Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting..., Accepted, Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, He's Just Not That Into You, and Drag Me To Hell, and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign.
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Early life
Long was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and raised in a Roman Catholic family.1 He attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit school. Long's mother, Wendy Lesniak,2 is an actress who has mostly appeared on stage, and his father, R. James Long, is a philosophy and Latin professor at Fairfield University. He has two brothers: an older brother, Damian, who is a local stage actor as well as a teacher and theater director at Weston High School, and a younger brother, Christian, who appears in the movie Accepted as the school mascot. Long attended Vassar College, where he was a member of the sketch comedy group Laughingstock and starred in several plays including Butterflies are Free. He left college early to pursue his career. Before leaving, he worked at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut as an acting instructor/counselor for a children's theater group. He dated Drew Barrymore in 2008, but then they split. In 2009 they reunited and are currently engaged.
Career
Long benefited early in his career from friendship with MGM casting agent Devon O'Brien, who gave him his first job in a Pepsi commercial alongside Clint Eastwood.
Long's film credits include Jeepers Creepers, Waiting..., Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, The Break-Up, Crossroads, Galaxy Quest, Dreamland, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Live Free Or Die Hard. He was also a regular on the NBC TV series Ed (2000–2004), playing socially awkward Warren Cheswick. He voiced the character of Alvin in 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks and played the main character in the 2006 comedy film Accepted.
He made a guest appearance in the 2006 documentary, Wild West Comedy Show. In 2007, he co-starred with Bruce Willis as a "white-hat hacker" in Live Free or Die Hard3 and had a role in the film, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang.
Long is also known for his depiction of a Mac in Apple's Get a Mac campaign. The campaign features commercials in which Long as a Mac and John Hodgman as a PC are engaged in playful banter about "the strengths of the Mac platform and weaknesses of the PC platform."4
Long also had a small role in the 2008 comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, where he plays Brandon St. Randy, a gay porn star. He recently starred in He's Just Not That into You (2009) as the character Alex, along with co-star Ginnifer Goodwin. Long cameoed on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live (season 35, host: Drew Barrymore; musical guest: Regina Spektor) as Matthew McConaughey on a sketch called "Celebrity Ghost Stories."
Long has recently been cast as a one-armed Civil War veteran in Robert Redford's The Conspirator.5
Long also read the audiobook version of Judy Blume's Then Again, Maybe I Won't.