Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born February 27, 1965) is an American film actor who first broke out in the film Beautiful Girls. He was later seen in movies like The Truman Show, Cop Land, Frequency, Love & Sex, Windtalkers, Miracle, Super 8 and Little Children.

Early life

Emmerich was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the son of Constance, a concert pianist, and André Emmerich (1924–2007), a gallery owner and art dealer from Frankfurt, Germany. He has two brothers: Toby Emmerich, president and chief operating officer at New Line Cinema, and a screenwriter as well; and Adam Emmerich, a leading mergers & acquisitions lawyer at the firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Noah was previously married to actress Melissa Fitzgerald.

He studied the Meisner technique of acting privately under Ron Stetston, a prominent actor/director who is currently senior member of the acting staff at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in History and sang in the Yale Spizzwinks(?), an a cappella singing group.

Filmography

• Last Action Hero as 'Rookie' (1993)
• Beautiful Girls as Michael "Mo" Morris (1996)
• Cop Land as Deputy Bill Geisler (1997)
• The Truman Show as Marlon (1998)
• Life as Stan Blocker (1999)
• Tumbleweeds as Vertis Dewey (1999)
• Frequency as Gordo Hersch (2000)
• Julie Johnson as Rick Johnson (2001)
• Windtalkers as Private Chick (2002)
• Beyond Borders as Elliot Hauser (2003)
• Miracle as Craig Patrick (2004)
• Cellular as Jack Tanner (2004)
• Sometimes in April as Lionel Quaid (2005)
• Law and Order: SVU as Officer Pete Breslin (2005)
• Little Children as Larry Hedges (2006)
• Pride and Glory as Francis Tierney, Jr. (2008)
• Monk (TV episode) as Roderick Brody (2009)
• White Collar as Garrett Fowler (recurring character) (2009–present)
• Trust (2010)
• Fair Game as Bill Johnson (2010)
• The Walking Dead (TV series) as Dr. Edwin Jenner (2010)
• Super 8 as Colonel Nelec (2011)
• Warrior as Dan Taylor (2011)

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