Jake Weber

Jake T. Weber (born 12 March 1963) is an English actor, known in film for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and for his role as Drew in Meet Joe Black. In television, he is known for playing Joe DuBois, husband of psychic Allison DuBois, in the long running drama series Medium.

For the spiritualist, see Jack Webber.

Jake T. Weber
Born	(1963-03-12) 12 March 1963[1] London, England
Education	Middlebury College (BA) Juilliard School (GrDip)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Diane Oreiro (m. 1995, div. 2002) Korri Culbertson (m. 2017)
Website	www.jakeweber.com

In 2001 and 2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's The Mind of the Married Man and made guest appearances on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue. As of autumn 2016, Weber joined the cast, in a recurring role, of ABC's Secrets and Lies in its second season. After a recurring role on Fox's The Following, Weber has had series regular roles on Hell on Wheels and Homeland.

Early years

Weber was born in London, to Susan Ann Caroline (née Coriat), a British socialite, and husband Thomas Evelyn "Tommy" Weber (originally Thomas Ejnar Arkner), a race car driver who also came from a wealthy family.[2][3] His father was born in Denmark, of Danish and English descent.[4] Jake's maternal grandfather, Robert Coriat, who was born in Mogador, Morocco, was of Moroccan Sephardic Jewish descent. Jake's maternal grandmother, Priscilla Weigall, was English, from an upper-class family. Priscilla's father was Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet, while Priscilla's maternal grandfather was Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet. [5] Weber has one sibling, his brother Charley. Through his English maternal grandmother, Weber is a great-grandson of politician Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet and wife Grace Emily Blundell Maple, and a great-great-grandson of business magnate Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet and wife Emily Harriet Merryweather.[4]

Weber's mother, Susan, was diagnosed with depression and LSD-induced schizophrenia, and died of a drug overdose when Weber was eight years old. His father, who sold various illegal drugs and utilized both his sons in trafficking said drugs to numerous international destinations, struggled with substance addiction until his death in 2006.[6]

In 1971, Weber's father took him and his brother to stay for a period at Villa Nellcôte, where the Rolling Stones were recording Exile on Main St. In a 2010 article for The Times, Weber recalled that his "father used him as a drug mule to bring cocaine out for Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding."[7]

Weber attended Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk. Later, he went to the United States to study at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he sang a cappella with the Dissipated Eight and majored in English literature and political science, graduating cum laude with a B.A. degree in 1986.[8] He attended The Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 19 (1986–1990), which also included Laura Linney and Jeanne Tripplehorn.[9] He also studied at Russia's famed Moscow Art Theatre.[10]

At the 2010 Cannes film festival, as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the launching of the rock 'n roll documentary, Stones in Exile, singer Mick Jagger spoke to the crowd about the months of drug-fueled recording sessions that produced the Stones' classic 1972 album Exile on Main Street. Jagger joked about the rarely seen original footage that reveals eight-year-old Weber rolling marijuana joints for them. Weber has reportedly stated that his drug-dealing father brought him to Keith Richards's rented French villa, Nellcôte, in the seaside town of Villefranche-sur-Mer near Nice, where the Stones were recording the album.[11]

Career

Weber's roles were often bit parts in A-list films, beginning with that of Kyra Sedgwick's character's unnamed boyfriend in the Oliver Stone-directed period saga Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and continuing with work for such directors as Sidney Lumet (A Stranger Among Us, 1992), Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, 1993) and Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black, 1998). Weber scored one of his premier leads as Dr. Matt Crower, a kindly physician who takes charge of a young boy and protects him from a possessed sheriff in actor-turned-producer Shaun Cassidy's short-lived, but well received, supernatural drama series American Gothic (1995) on CBS. That programme did not last long; and neither did the Mike Binder sitcom The Mind of the Married Man (2001), in which Weber signed on as one of the leads, Chicago newspaper employee Jake Berman.

After his prominent role in the 2004 remake of horror film Dawn of the Dead, Weber won the role of Joe Dubois on Medium as the husband of a woman (Patricia Arquette) plagued by psychic visions who uses her ability to help solve crimes.

As of autumn 2016, Weber is a recurring guest-star as the psychotherapist husband of Detective Andrea Cornell (played by series lead Juliette Lewis) on the second season of the ABC murder mystery, Secrets and Lies. The series was picked up for a full second season by ABC after a successful limited run last spring as a midseason replacement. Weber had a recurring part on the Fox series, The Following, and improvised on the Netflix series Easy. Weber also appeared in seasons 6 and 7 of the Showtime series Homeland.

He has performed on Broadway[12] and off-Broadway, as well.[13]

Personal life

Weber was married to Diane Oreiro from 2000 to 2002. In 2017, Weber married his longtime girlfriend, Korri Culbertson.[14] Weber has a son, Waylon Weber (born 24 March 2006) from a previous relationship.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Donna's boyfriend
1991	Bed & Breakfast	Bobby
1992	A Stranger Among Us	Yaakov Klausman
1993	Skin Art	Richard
1993	The Pelican Brief	Curtis Morgan
1994	Cultivating Charlie	Charles Thundertrunk
1994	Vanishing Son II	Bo	Television movie
1994	Vanishing Son IV	Bo	Television movie
1997	What the Deaf Man Heard	Tolliver Tynan
1997	Amistad	Mr. Wright
1998	Dangerous Beauty	King Henry III
1998	Into My Heart	Adam
1998	Meet Joe Black	Drew
1999	Pushing Tin	Barry Plotkin
1999	In Too Deep	Daniel Connelly
1999	Cherry	Dr. Beverly Kirk
2000	U-571	Lt. Hirsch, USNR
2000	The Cell	FBI Special Agent Gordon Ramsey
2001	Wendigo	George
2002	Love Thy Neighbor	Man in Adult Section
2002	Leo	Ben Bloom
2002	100 Mile Rule	Bobby Davis
2004	The Warrior Class	Phil Anwar
2004	Dawn of the Dead	Michael
2004	Haven	Officer Powell
2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley	Mr. Hartley
2012	Chained	Brad Fittler
2013	White House Down	Secret Service Agent Ted Hope
2014	Hungry Hearts	Dr. Bill
2014	Learning to Drive	Ted
2017	Wetlands	Sgt. McCulvey
2017	Thank You for Your Service	Col. Plymouth
2019	The Beach House	Mitch	[15]
2019	Midway	Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance
2020	Those Who Wish Me Dead		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Law & Order	Wesley Parker	Episode 8: "Poison Ivy"
1994–1995	Something Wilder	Richie Wainwright	15 episodes
1995–1996	American Gothic	Dr. Matt Crower	15 episodes
1996	NYPD Blue	Bill Walsh[16]	Episode: "Girl Talk"
1997	Liberty! The American Revolution	Virginia Officer	5 episodes
2001	The $treet	Peter Dearborn	2 episodes
2001–2002	The Mind of the Married Man	Jake Berman	20 episodes
2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Carl Atwood	Episode: "One"
2005–2011	Medium	Joe Dubois	130 episodes Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
2011	Human Target	Bill Fickner	Episode: "Marshal Pucci"
2012	Royal Pains	Gabe Gleason	Episode: "Bottoms Up"
2012	House	Joe Reese	Episode: "Man of the House"
2013	Elementary	Geoffrey Silver	Episode: "Dirty Laundry"
2014	The Following	Micah	3 episodes
2014, 2016	Hell on Wheels	John Allen Campbell	15 episodes
2015	Tyrant	Jimmy Timmons	8 episodes
2015	The Blacklist	Raymond Reddington/Gregory Devry	1 episode
2016	Easy	Wally	1 episode
2016	Secrets and Lies	Ethan	3 episodes
2017–2018	Homeland	Brett O’Keefe	Recurring Season 6, Starring Season 7
2018–2019	13 Reasons Why	Barry Walker	Recurring role (Season 2–3)

References

1. Willis, John (20 January 1995). "Theatre World 1992-1993". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
2. Wilner, Paul (21 May 2009). "Legends of the Fall: Carmel author's new book is a tale of the rise and demise of two British dreamers". Monterey County Weekly. Monterrey, California: Milestone Communications Inc. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012.
3. Jones, Oliver (21 September 2009). "Medium's Jake Weber: My Wild Childhood". People. New York City: Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
4. Greenfield, Robert (5 May 2009). A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306816222.
5. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916617/bio
6. Jones, Oliver (11 September 2009). "INSIDE STORY: Medium Star Jake Weber's Rock 'N' Roll Childhood". People. New York City: Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
7. "Rolling Stones' long party: documentary film tells of children". TimesOnline.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
8. "Arts Fact Sheet" (PDF). Middlebury College. 16 February 2009.
9. "Alumni News". The Juilliard School. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
10. http://www.jakeweber.com/
11. 'Stupid' Mick Jagger mouths off at Cannes, smh.com.au; accessed 19 January 2018.
12. Jake Weber's Internet Broadway Database profile, IBDb.com; retrieved 19 January 2018.
13. "Jake Weber". Lortel Archives Internet Off-Broadway Database. Archived from the original on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
14. "Jake Weber and family". Crushable.com. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
15. Kurland, Daniel (9 July 2020). "[Review] 'The Beach House' is a Cosmic, Trippy Triumph That Will Bury You In Its Tide". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
16. "Girl Talk". IMDb.com. 19 March 1996. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

External links

• Jake Weber on IMDb
• Jake Weber at the Internet Off-Broadway Database