- Born
- Birth nameJacob William Carpenter
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Jake Carpenter is best known for the Frank Marshall/Kathleen Kennedy film ALIVE, David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the television series LA Law. He is also a producer of the film, King Cake, with John Goodman and Elijah Wood. Jake graduated from UCLA with a BA in Psychology. He also attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and Ben Franklin Senior High School. He lives in Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: William
- Jake lost 35 pounds over the course of shooting Alive to reflect his character's starvation.
- Jack Black and Laurie Holden were Jake's classmates in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
- Jake starred in Renee Zellweger's first film, Murder in the Heartland.
- Laurie David, former wife of Larry David, was Jake's first talent manager. She enabled him to get into the feature film, Alive.
- He graduated from arts high school NOCCA, which has alumni including Harry Connick, Jr., Wendell Pierce, Anthony Mackie, and Wynton Marsalis.
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