Trivia

Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife Emma Wall and kids. The couple were married there where his wife's family still reside.

As of 2024, has appeared in five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Lincoln (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).

Studied English at Yale.

Wife is a psychiatrist from Denmark.

Has three daughters.

His father is of Russian Jewish descent and his mother is of Irish ancestry.

Mother was a hospice nurse, father worked in the juvenile incarceration system.

Raised in Sudbury, Massachusetts.