- Born
- Birth nameJacob Lumet Cannavale
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Jake Cannavale was born on May 1, 1995 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Nurse Jackie (2009), Romance & Cigarettes (2005) and Eat Brains Love (2019).
- Parents
- RelativesSidney Lumet(Grandparent)Lena Horne(Great Grandparent)Gail Lumet Buckley(Grandparent)Rocco Cannavale(Half Sibling)Rafia Cannavale(Half Sibling)Baruch Lumet(Great Grandparent)Amy Lumet(Aunt or Uncle)
- Bobby Cannavale, who plays his father on Nurse Jackie (2009), is Jake's real-life father (with ex-wife/actress Jenny Lumet).
- Jake's great-grandmother was Lena Horne and his grandfather was Sidney Lumet.
- After his father Bobby Cannavale, his maternal grandfather Sidney Lumet and two of his maternal great-grandparents Baruch Lumet and Lena Horne, he is the fourth generation of his family to perform in a Broadway play.
- Two days before his first acting audition, for a role in Nurse Jackie (2009), he dyed his hair green. The gimmick worked and he got the part.
- With his blood ties to Bobby Cannavale, Lena Horne and the Sidney Lumet family, Jake is that rare fourth-generation member of an American show-business clan. And his polyglot ethnicity includes Cuban, northern European, Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Senegalese and Native American roots. Also from his great-grandmother Lena Horne's side, he is very likely a descendant of South Carolina political scion John C. Calhoun.
- [re dad Bobby Cannavale] He and my mom [Jenny Lumet] call him my wife. When at my mom's, he calls me two or three times a day. Sometimes he'll say, 'We need to have a talk, we've been distant lately.' And I'm like, 'Dad, it's finals week.'
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