Adam Charles Goldberg (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, director, and producer.

Biography

Early life

Goldberg was born in Santa Monica, California and was raised near Miami Beach, the son of Donna (née Goebel) and Earl Goldberg. His father is Jewish and his mother is a Roman Catholic of Irish, French and German descent. After seeing a school drama class Shakespeare production, Goldberg became fascinated with show business and began studying acting at various workshops in his early teens. He was active in campus theatrical productions during his years attending Sarah Lawrence College.

Career

Goldberg's first major screen role occurred in 1992's Billy Crystal film Mr. Saturday Night. His career-making role was arguably that of the tough, wise-cracking infantryman Mellish in Steven Spielberg's 1998 film Saving Private Ryan. While having capably played lead characters, as in the short-lived 2005 Fox series Head Cases and Hebrew Hammer, Goldberg has mostly been cast in strong supporting roles.

Memorable roles include Jerry, the miserable undead servant to Christopher Walken's Gabriel character in the supernatural thriller, The Prophecy and the borderline-psychotic Eddie Menuek on the sitcom, Friends. Goldberg has also worked alongside preeminent voice artists like Dan Castellaneta and Charlie Adler, lending his voice to Babe: Pig in the City and cartoons like Eek! The Cat. Goldberg often portrays "stereotypically Jewish" characters (most notably in Dazed and Confused, The Hebrew Hammer and in the series Entourage).

Goldberg appeared extensively in the Flaming Lips documentary The Fearless Freaks, and will have a supporting role in Christmas on Mars, a science fiction film written and directed by Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne.

Goldberg wrote, produced, directed and edited the features Scotch and Milk and I Love Your Work, as well as various television projects, notably including the philosophical travelogue, Running with the Bulls for IFC. A talented guitarist and songwriter, Goldberg composed and arranged the music to I Love Your Work and Running with the Bulls and provided a song for the Hebrew Hammer soundtrack. He is known to travel with a cheap acoustic guitar, as can be seen in ...Bulls. Having released rock and jazz albums, including the critically-lauded Changes with respected Latin jazz percussionist Phil Maturano, Adam Goldberg, the actor, has proven himself a serious and dedicated musician (not to be confused with the Boston based singer/songwriter of the same name).

He appeared in a three episode arc on Friends season 2 as Chandler's new room mate Eddie. Also appearing some years later in a nine episode arc in season 2 of spinoff show Joey as Joey's best friend from high school Jimmy. In Joey he is the father of Michael Tribbiani and in the later episodes Goldberg's character starts dating Gina Tribbiani (Michael's mother) and marries her in the series finale.

Personal life

Goldberg dated actress Christina Ricci until early 2006. Ricci told W magazine in mid 2006 they were back together, saying "...I love him and I feel like we were meant for each other." but the two have since broken up. He lives in New York City.

Filmography

• Christmas on Mars (2008) as Mars Psychiatrist
• From Within (2008) as Roy
• Medium (TV series, 2007)
• Entourage (TV series, 2007): Nick Rubenstein
• Nancy Drew (2007) as Arrogant Director
• Zodiac (2007) as Duffy Jennings
• 2 Days in Paris (2007) as Jack
• Déjà Vu (2006) as Dr. Alexander Denny
• Stay Alive (2006) as Miller Banks
• My Name Is Earl (Episode 15 - "Something to Live For") (TV series, February 2, 2006) as Philo
• Joey (8 Episodes) (TV series, 2005-2006) as Jimmy Casa
• Man About Town (2006) as Phil Balow
• The Fearless Freaks (2005) as Himself
• Frankenstein (2004) as Detective Michael Sloane
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) as Tony
• The Hebrew Hammer (2003) as Mordechai Jefferson Carver
• I Love Your Work (2003)
• The Salton Sea (2002) as Kujo
• A Beautiful Mind (2001) as Sol
• According to Spencer (2001) as Feldy
• Fast Sofa (2001) as Jack Weis
• All Over the Guy (2001) as Brett Miles Sanford
• Waking Life (voice) (2001) as One of Four Men
• Sunset Strip (2000) as Marty Shapiro
• EDtv (1999) as John
• Babe: Pig in the City (voice) (1998) as Flealick
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) as Pvt. Stanley Mellish
• Some Girl (1998) as Freud
• Scotch and Milk (1998) as Jim
• Relativity (1996-1997) as Doug Kroll
• Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (voice) (1996) as Pete
• Friends (1996) (3 Episodes in Season 2, as Eddie [Chandler's Roommate])
• The Prophecy (1996) as Jerry
• Higher Learning (1995) as David Isaacs
• Dazed and Confused (1993) as Mike Newhouse
• Son in Law (1993) as Indian
• Mr. Saturday Night (1992) as Eugene Gimbel

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