Emile Hirsch Filmography

Born:: March 13, 1985 in Topanga Canyon, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Young actor Emile Hirsch rose to prominence in 2002 with showy roles in two high-profile films, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and The Emperor's Club. Hirsch was born in Topanga Canyon, CA, on March 13, 1985. He made his television debut at the age of 11 in an episode of the series Kindred: The...Read More

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Milk

Actors: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco

Synopsis: Director Gus Van Sant brings the real-life tale of Harvey Milk, the slain gay activist and politician, to the big screen, care of Focus Features and actor Sean Penn, who plays the title role. Dustin Lance Black provides the script, with Groundswell Productions handling the financing duties. Josh Read More

11/26/08
Speed Racer

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, John Goodman

Synopsis: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Read More

5/9/08
The Air I Breathe

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Bacon, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Four stories, representing the emotional principles of Love, Pleasure, Sorrow and Happiness, come together in this episodic drama from first-time director Jieho Lee. A powerful crime boss, Fingers (Andy Garcia), subtly controls the destinies of four people whose circumstances have brought them to Read More

1/25/08
Into the Wild

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener

Synopsis: Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with Read More

9/21/07
Alpha Dog

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Ben Foster

Synopsis: A drug dealer moves on to bigger crimes in an effort to settle a score with disastrous results in this drama inspired by actual events. Though barely out of his teens, Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) has already built a lucrative career for himself selling drugs -- he has his own home, a luxury Read More

1/12/07
Lords of Dogtown

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed

Synopsis: The true story of the kids who created modern skateboard culture is recreated in this drama. In the early '70s, skateboards were seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, but in a rough-and-tumble Venice, CA, community known as "Dogtown," that was about to change. Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk Read More

6/3/05
Imaginary Heroes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: A shocking and tragic event causes the members of a quietly dysfunctional family to reexamine themselves and their lives in this drama. Ben and Sandy Travis (Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver) are a couple whose troubled family begins to crumble when their eldest son, star college athlete Matt (Kip Pardue Read More

12/17/04
The Mudge Boy

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Tom Guiry, Richard Jenkins, Pablo Schreiber, Zachary Knighton

Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Burke makes his feature-length debut with the coming-of-age drama The Mudge Boy. Known as a weird kid, Duncan Mudge (Emile Hirsch) is a naïve 14-year-old farm boy with an aging father, Edgar (Richard Jenkins), and very little social life. When Duncan's mother suddenly dies Read More

5/7/04
The Girl Next Door

Actors: Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: Boy meets girl who's already met all sorts of boys and girls in this teen-slanted comedy. Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-laced and highly ambitious high school student who plans to study at Georgetown University and dreams of a career in politics. While most of his classmates are in Read More

4/9/04
The Emperor's Club

Actors: Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano, Rishi Mehta

Synopsis: A dedicated teacher learns some important lessons about himself years after he retired from the classroom in this drama. William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is an instructor at St. Benedict's School for Boys, an exclusive private academy on the East Coast where Hundert drills his charges on the moral Read More

11/22/02
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys brings Chris Fuhrman's well-received, posthumously published teen novel to the screen. Set in the 1970s, the film concerns two rebellious Catholic schoolboys -- bashful, pensive Francis (Emile Hirsch) and whip-smart, impulsive Tim (Kieran Culkin) -- who spend Read More

6/14/02
Wild Iris

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Emile Hirsch, Fred Ward, Lee Tergesen

Synopsis: A woman tries to make sense of her relationship with her mother -- who also happens to be her boss and landlady -- in this dramatic comedy. Iris (Laura Linney) has never had an especially warm relationship with her mother Min (Gena Rowlands), but after her husband committed suicide, Iris was Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Voir Dire This

Synopsis: As Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) prepares for his courtroom confrontation with Sinclair (Daniel Benzali) during the Cullinen trial, John Irvin (Bill Brochtrup) tries again to mollify the father (Bob Glaudini) of Cullinen's possible victim Dolores Mayo. Back at the 15th, Danny (Rick Schroder) tries to Read More

1999
ER: Humpty Dumpty

Synopsis: With this episode, recurring character "Dr. Dave" Malucci (Erik Palladino) becomes a regular. Elsewhere, John Cullum returns as Greene's (Anthony Edwards) cantankerous father, who arrives in Chicago from San Diego -- and promptly gets lost. As Kovac (Goran Visnjic) and Weaver (Laura Innes) try to Read More

1999
ER: How the Finch Stole Christmas

Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, Carol brings one of her twin babies into the ER for a checkup, while the attending room is clogged with half a dozen very sick Santas. Overstepping her authority, Finch (Michael Michele) takes teenager Chad (Emile Hirsch) away from his mother (Roxanne Hart) so he can undergo Read More

1999
Gargantua

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Julie Carmen, Emile Hirsch, Bobby Hosea

Synopsis: Set upon a lonely Polynesian Island, this sci-fi chiller, tells the wild tale of a marine biologist who goes there to investigate the effects of recent earthquakes on the locals. What the scientist finds is bigger than he could have ever imagined. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1998