I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Filmography


Awards. He has appeared in a number of films with John Cusack who is also from Evanston and is a fellow alumnus of the Piven Theatre Workshop (as are Cusack's sisters Joan and Ann). Piven and Cusack once shared an apartment and have been friends since high school.

Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26 1965) is an American film producer and actor best known for his role as Ari Gold in the television series Entourage for which he has won two Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards as well as several other nominations for Best Supporting Actor.