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American actor Bryan Greenberg was born on May 24, 1978, in Omaha, Nebraska, but moved to St. Louis, Missouri, when he was twelve years old. Bryan graduated from Parkway Central High school and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University. He made his television debut in 1997 on the crime drama "Law & Order" and made his first film appearance in "A Civil Action." His movie credits include "Thanks To Gravity," "Prime" and "The Perfect Score," and he has appeared on the TV shows "Boston Public," "Providence" and "The Sopranos," but he is best known for his role as Jake Jagielski on the CW Network's "One Tree Hill." Besides acting, Bryan is a dedicated musician and has performed two songs on "One Tree Hill."
Sporting a memorably handsome, clean-cut, all-American look, actor Bryan Greenberg parlayed that image into a series of roles that directly played off of it. Greenberg grew up as the son of two psychologists in the Omaha, NE area, and entered the arena of professional performance via ballet. At the age of seven, he began local ballet classes and was tapped to perform in the Omaha Ballet's touring production of +The Nutcracker -- an assignment that lasted two months. Five years later, the family moved to St. Louis and Greenberg caught his first taste of national exposure (in a commercial for Cookie Crisp cereal), but decided, along with his parents, to put his career on the back burner while he finished high school and formally studied acting at New York University.



In seemingly no time, Greenberg secured an agent and began regularly landing roles, both before and after graduation. Prominent features with Greenberg in the cast included the 2005 romantic comedy Prime (the lead, opposite Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep, as a 23-year-old Jewish boy caught up in a May-December romance with a 37-year-old WASP); the 2007 crime comedy Nobel Son (another lead, this one opposite Alan Rickman as a Ph.D. student kidnapped by some hapless crooks); and the 2008 Kate Hudson-Anne Hathaway romantic comedy Bride Wars. In addition to his work on the big screen, Greenberg had recurring part on One Tree Hill (2003-2006) and took on the regular role of Nick Garrett on the ABC drama October Road beginning in 2007. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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