Ebon Moss-Bachrach

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Full Name: Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Date of birth: March 19, 1977 (49 years old)
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Country: USA
Height: 1,85m

Ebon Moss-Bachrach has been active for 25 years, participating in 17 movies that average a 6.1/10 score.

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Biography

Ebon Moss-Bachrach was born on 19 March 1977 and grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a house where music was everywhere: his parents ran a music school in nearby Springfield, and he was raised surrounded by pianos and guitars. His father, born in Germany to a Jewish American family, and his mother also gave him an unusual middle name, Che, in honour of Che Guevara. He went to Columbia University to study history and music, ended up graduating in English literature in 1999, and spent years honing his craft on the New York stage before the camera came calling.

For a long time, his was one of those faces audiences recognised without quite knowing from where. It took a quarter of a century of steady, unglamorous work before Richie Jerimovich in 'The Bear' suddenly made him, at 45, one of the most beloved actors on television, with two Emmys on the shelf, a seat at Marvel's top table and a Broadway marquee with his name on it.

Twenty five years of graft

His earliest credits are the kind you have to pause the screen to catch: the bellboy in Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' (2001), a waiter in 'The Believer' (2001), the drama that launched Ryan Gosling, and an MTV executive in 'American Splendor' (2003). Jobs that paid the rent while the real work kept happening in the theatre.

The parts slowly grew: he courted one of Julia Roberts's students in 'Mona Lisa Smile' (2003), passed through the expensive flop 'Stealth' (2005) and played Keanu Reeves's brother, opposite Sandra Bullock, in the romance 'The Lake House' (2006).

On television he turned up in shows as different as 'Damages' and 'The Last Ship', while on film he strung together comedies and indies such as 'Evening' (2007), 'The Pleasure of Your Company' (2006), 'Lola Versus' (2012) and 'We'll Never Have Paris' (2014). All the while, he never left the New York stage, his true training ground.

Desi, Micro and a talent for scene stealing

The first character that made him properly recognisable was Desi Harperin, the pretentious, insufferable musician of Lena Dunham's 'Girls'. He played him from 2014 to 2017, in a part that began as a guest spot and ended up a regular, and Desi's doomed romance and marriage to Marnie (Allison Williams) produced some of the HBO comedy's most excruciating moments. The role fitted him like a glove: raised among instruments, he genuinely sang and played in Desi's performances.

Then came Micro, the former NSA analyst who fakes his own death and becomes Frank Castle's reluctant ally in 'The Punisher', the most violent corner of Netflix's Marvel universe and his first collaboration with Jon Bernthal, and a role that put him firmly on genre fans' radar. He followed it as the haunted father of the heroine, opposite Zachary Quinto's child eating vampire, in the horror series 'NOS4A2' and appeared in 'The Dropout', the miniseries about the founder of Theranos led by Amanda Seyfried.

In 2022 he played the distrustful Arvel Skeen in the celebrated Aldhani heist episodes of 'Andor', the series fronted by Diego Luna and widely regarded as the finest piece of storytelling ever to come out of the Star Wars universe, which returned for a second and final season in 2025.

Cousin Richie and two Emmys in a row

That same year, creator Christopher Storer handed him the role of a lifetime: Richie, "Cousin", the manager of a Chicago sandwich shop who fights tooth and nail against the changes brought in by young chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) after he inherits the place on the death of his brother, Richie's best friend. Together with Ayo Edebiri, they form the heart of 'The Bear', one of the television phenomena of the decade.

Loud, wounding and quietly broken, Richie started out as the most hateful character on the show and ended up the most loved, peaking with 'Forks', the episode in which he finds his purpose while training at a fine dining restaurant. Television's academy rewarded him with two consecutive Emmys for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy: he collected the first in January 2024, at the ceremony postponed by the Hollywood strikes, and the second barely eight months later. To those he added a Critics' Choice Award, a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award and Golden Globe nominations in 2023 and 2025.

His bond with the show remains very much alive: in May 2026, FX surprise released 'Gary', a standalone episode set before the events of the series, directed by Storer, which Moss-Bachrach himself co wrote with Bernthal and which sends Richie and Mikey on a road trip to Gary, Indiana. FX has put it forward for the writing categories at the 2026 Emmys.

The Thing, Broadway and Brooklyn

Between seasons he found time to steal scenes from Jennifer Lawrence in the comedy 'No Hard Feelings' (2023), and in 2025 he joined Marvel as Ben Grimm, The Thing, in 'Fantastic Four: First Steps', Matt Shakman's retro futurist blockbuster, which folded the First Family into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time and opened at number one at the worldwide box office on its way past 500 million dollars.

He plays the rock skinned hero through motion capture, alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm and Joseph Quinn as the Human Torch, and will return in 'Avengers: Doomsday', due in December 2026, and 'Avengers: Secret Wars' (2027).

In spring 2026 he ticked off another long held ambition, making his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation, written by playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, of 'Dog Day Afternoon', the Sidney Lumet classic, playing Sal, the jittery accomplice to Jon Bernthal's bank robber, the parts owned in 1975 by John Cazale and Al Pacino. The production, staged at the August Wilson Theatre with a run through to July 2026, picked up three Tony nominations.

Away from the spotlight, he has been with Ukrainian photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuk, born in Kyiv and known for her work with the Smashing Pumpkins, since they met at a New York party in the nineties. They have two daughters, Sasha and Maribelle, born in 2007 and 2010, and the family lives in Brooklyn Heights, keeping a deliberately low profile.

There is a sign in the kitchen of 'The Bear' that accidentally sums up his whole career: every second counts. Thirty years and one very late breakthrough in, is there anyone left who doubts he made them all matter?