Jake Weber

At 61 years old, Jake Weber has this physical status:

Jake T. Weber (born 12 March 1963) is an English actor best known for his film work as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and as Drew in Meet Joe Black.

Joe DuBois, husband of psychic Allison DuBois, is best known for his role in the long-running drama series Medium. Weber appeared on HBO's The Mind of the Married Man in 2001 and 2002, and he made guest appearances on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue.

As of fall 2016, Weber appeared in ABC's Secrets and Lies in a recurring role.

Weber has appeared on Fox's The Following in a regular role.

Early life

Susan Ann Weber was born in London, England, to Thomas Evelyn "Tommy" Weber, a British socialite and husband Thomas Evelyn "Tommy" Weber, a racing driver who came from a wealthy family. His father was born in Denmark and of Danish and English descent. Robert Correat, the Weber's maternal grandfather, who was born in Mogador, Morocco, was of Sephardic Jewish (Moroccan-Jewish) descent. Priscilla Weigall, the Weber's maternal grandmother, was English and came from an upper-class family. Sir William Ernest Weigall, 1st Baronet, was the father of Priscilla, although Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet, was Priscilla's maternal grandfather. Charley is the Weber's older brother. Weber, the English maternal grandfather, is a great-grandson of business magnate Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet and his partner, Grace Emily (née Blundell Maple), and a great-grandson of business magnate Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet and his wife, Emily Harriet Merryweather.

Susan Weber, Weber's mother, was diagnosed with depression and LSD-induced schizophrenia and died as a result of a drug overdose at the age of 27. His father, who manufactured various illegal drugs and employed both his sons in trafficking, sold heroin to several international destinations and failed with heroin use until his death in 2006 at the age of 67.

In 1971, Weber's father and brother were forced to stay at Villa Nellcôte, where the Rolling Stones were recording Exile on Main Street. 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."

Weber attended Leiston, Suffolk, at Summerhill School. Later, he returned to Middlebury College in Vermont, where he cappella with the Dissipated Eight and majored in English literature and political science, graduating with a B.A. In 1986, Cum lauded. He attended The Juilliard School's Drama Department from 1986 to 1989, which also included Laura Linney and Jeanne Tripplehorn. He also worked at the famed Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.

Stones in Exile, singer Mick Jagger, talked to the crowd at the 2010 Cannes film festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the unveiling of the Stones' classic 1972 album Exile on Main Street. Jagger joked about the rare original video of an eight-year-old Weber rolling marijuana joints for them. According to reports, Keith Richards' rented French villa Nellcôte in Nice's seaside town of Villefranche-sur-Mer where the Stones were recording the album.

Personal life

From 1995 to 1997, Weber was married to Diane Oreiro.

Korri Culbertson, Weber's long-time girlfriend, married him in 2017. Waylon, a boy from his previous marriage, has a son.

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Career

In the Oliver Stone-directed period (1989), Weber's roles were often bit parts in A-list films, beginning with that of Kyra Sedgwick's unidentified boyfriend in the Oliver Stone-directed period saga (1990) and continuing with work with Sidney Lumet (Meet Joe Black, 1998).

In actor-turned-producer Shaun Cassidy's short-lived, but well-deserved, supernatural drama series American Gothic (1995) on CBS, he scored one of his top stars as Dr. Matt Crower, a compassionate physician who takes charge of a young boy and shields him from a possessed sheriff. That show didn't last long; nor did Mike Binder's The Mind of the Married Man (2001), in which Weber appeared as one of the leads, Chicago newspaper employee Jake Berman.

Weber played Joe Dubois, a psychic intermediary with visions that help her prevent or solve crimes in 2004.

On the second season of the ABC murder mystery Secrets and Lies, Weber appeared as the psychotherapist husband of Detective Andrea Cornell (played by series lead Juliette Lewis). ABC has renewed the series for a full second season after a brief run as a midseason replacement last spring. Weber appeared on the Fox series The Following and improvised on Netflix's Easy. In seasons 6 and 7 of the Showtime series Homeland, Weber appeared in seasons 6 and 7.

In the 2021 film Those Who Wish Me Dead, Weber was cast. He has appeared on Broadway and off-Broadway as well.

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